I like how the space gangsters wear earth-style suits, ties and all, with their bubble helmets.
By The Australian Panther
And also a woman on the moon wearmg street clothes, dress and heels and a helmet.
Not a lot of consistency here.
First story Albright sends Midnight, in costume to fly the rocket. Second story, Albright flies the plane, then when on the moon, changes to Midnight quite casually without any comment from anybody else.
As for the scientific logic to anything happening in these stories? furgettaboutit! When Carl Barks put Uncle Scrooge in space he was more more logical in the storytelling. Clearly the writer just didn't really care and thought his readership wouldn't care either and he may have been right!
Fun stuff tho!
By ghmcleod
Thank You
By dwilt
Albright's "secret" identity as Captain Midnight is even less plausible than Clark Kent/Superman: Albright's face is completely visible when he's Midnight, and he doesn't even wear eyeglasses when he's Albright. So the only difference is their outfit. Willing suspension of disbelief and all that.
For what it's worth, the *best* secret identities are Billy Batson/Captain Marvel and Bruce Banner/The Hulk, since they're essentially two entirely different people.
By crashryan
Reading these space adventures in order, it almost seems the writer and/or editor threw up their hands and said, "This secret identity shtick isn't working. Let's dump it." After the last space story there was only one more issue of CM's comic. Strangely it was a throwback to earlier days, complete with Icky's idiot alter-ego Sgt. Twilight. No mention was made of Cap's interplanetary travels, the "newly-formed space force," or anything else in the three previous issues. I guess the powers that be changed their minds again and decided to restore the status quo--then Fawcett pulled the plug on their comics and that was the end of it.
By the way, I love Zog's volcano head with the Saturnian ring around it.
By positronic1
To be fair... a lot of the popular WWII aviator-heroes had problems after the war, and faded in popularity. Spy Smasher became (ever so briefly) Crime Smasher. Hop Harrigan, in All-American Comics #78 (Oct. '46) turned into a superhero named the Black Lamp. Airboy and Blackhawk proved to be the exceptions, and seemed to be more popular after the war than ever. Fawcett's Captain Midnight comic book had always been slanted as more of a superhero than the original radio hero he was based on, so it's not surprising that he should lean into the science-fiction vein. Superman didn't even have many science fiction adventures until after the war ended. In a way, Fawcett's Captain Midnight was a few too many years ahead of its time -- by 1951, a couple of years after Captain Midnight ended, Fawcett was publishing the very similar character Captain Video, another inventor-hero who fought alien villains.
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