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| A member of the league of unfortunate super-heroes. 2nd story villains look like Mr. Potato Head |
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| As a high school lad, in the process of moving from DC to Marvel, I was astonished by how gawdawful this comic was when it hit the stands. I see now that I was right. |
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| No. No. No. This is good fun bad comic. I had these when I was young and enjoyed them and I'm so happy to see them here. There's something very appealing about second or third rate heroes, perhaps the obscurity. Actually when compared to The Purple hood and some others, this Captain is not too bad. |
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| Everything about Myron Fass you might ever wish to know.
https://everipedia.org/wiki/M._F._Enterprises/
Please! Don't tell me who the terrible 5 were!
I can live without that. |
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| We should not be surprised that the first character Carl Burgos created in decades turned out to be another blond-haired android in a red costume. After a brief return to the new Marvel Comics where his work no longer fit in with the house style, he was stewing over Marvel's current success with FF and already knew of Joe Simon's plan to bring suit against Goodman for Captain America. Burgos would attempt to mount a legal claim for the original Torch as well. This eventually resulted in Marvel inserting the original Torch as a guest-star in FF Annual #4. Meanwhile, someone at DC immediately freaked out when they saw PLASTIC MAN on the cover of CM #1. The near-instantaneous result of that was Plastic Man making an appearance as one of Robby Reed's "H-dial" heroes in HOUSE OF MYSTERY #160 (July '66), and Myron Fass' character being renamed Elastic Man in CM#2. One might wonder why DC didn't freak out earlier in 1963 when Israel Waldman issued his first reprint issue of PLASTIC MAN (#11), but presumably that flew under DC's radar since the IW/Super comics were sold bound together in plastic bags (like later Whitman comics), but in the lower-end department store chains. By the Fall of 1966, PLASTIC MAN #1 (cover-dated December) was issued by DC. Meanwhile DC took a closer look at that "The Bat" villain in CM and decided that was TOO close to their main breadwinner in 1966, resulting in the villain's name being later changed to "The Ray" instead of The Bat. DC wasn't the only one put out by Myron Fass' CM comic, either. When Martin Goodman finally got wind of it, he immediately checked whether the character had been registered as a trademark, and when he found it hadn't, he called Stan Lee and ordered him to create a Captain Marvel character for Marvel Comics, so Goodman could get the trademark to it. It took a while for Stan to find a place for it to be published (since he didn't have much faith in this motive for creating comics), but eventually Marvel's Captain Marvel appeared in the December 1967 issue of MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (#17), which had just been converted from an all-reprint title into a SHOWCASE-style "try-out" title. Lots of interesting activity was generated off this brief attempt of Myron Fass' to cash in on the familiarity of the name of the famous Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel. |
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| This caught me by surprise when it was thrown up by Random 12. I loved reading all the comments – what a mare’s nest this produced – worth reading if only for that. All in all, I didn’t think the art was too bad – good use of projection and perceptive dissonance in some panels – but this isn’t the real Captain Marvel of my British childhood – no way! |
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| The whole short series is great, awful fun. Is this any better or worse than Dell's Super Heroes? Or the super trio in the back of one of the Charlton titles - too early in the morning, brain not up and running yet. At the time, these comics interested and intrigued me. A new set of heroes and villains, and as someone who's superhero daft, especially for obscure characters, they were grest. |
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| Publication | April 1966 | Price: 0.25 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel; Billy Baxton; Plastic-Man (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Introducing the All-New Captain Marvel (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | A super-android is created on another planet and named Captain Marvel. Atomic war breaks out, destroying the planet. The hero eventually lands on Earth and is befriended by a boy named Billy. He gets a job as a writer for a press service. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Roger Winkle] (origin, introduction); Billy Baxton (introduction) |
| Notes | Introduction and origin of Captain Marvel (Roger Winkle, not the Fawcett or the Marvel Comics heroes). Introduction of Billy Baxton (not Fawcett's Billy Batson).
Splash page notes "Based on a character created by Carl Burgos." Nick Caputo suspects that Carl Burgos may have provided layouts for Francho.
Lambiek Comiclopedia (https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/francho_leon.htm) suggests that Leon Francho was probably the Argentine artist Arnoldo Franchioni, who often used the penname "Francho." |
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| Comic Story | The Invisible Aliens (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Marvel battles aliens from another dimension. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Roger Winkle]; Ben; The Giant Heads (introduction) |
| Notes | Introduction of The Giant Heads.
Nick Caputo suspects that Carl Burgos may have provided layouts for Leon Francho.
Lambiek Comiclopedia (https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/francho_leon.htm) suggests that Leon Francho was probably the Argentine artist Arnoldo Franchioni, who often used the penname "Francho."
No one is credited for this story, but the art and writing is similar enough to the first story (which is credited) to make the assumption that it is the same creative team. |
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| Comic Story | The Blue Men of Venus! (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Marvel meets the blue-skinned Venusians and battles Plastic-Man. Plastic-Man, a criminal Gronk from Venus, relocates to Earth. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Roger Winkle]; Billy Baxton; Plastic-Man (villain, introduction, see notes); Gurk; Oleg; Charlie |
| Notes | Nick Caputo suspects that Carl Burgos may have provided layouts for Leon Francho.
Lambiek Comiclopedia (https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/francho_leon.htm) suggests that Leon Francho was probably the Argentine artist Arnoldo Franchioni, who often used the penname "Francho."
This Plastic-Man becomes Elasticman with issue #2 and is not the Quality / DC Comics hero.
No one is credited for this story, but the art and writing is similar enough to the first story (which is credited) to make the assumption that it is the same creative team. |
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