Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Captain's Library & Theatre CAPTAIN JUSTICE "Once a Hero" Part 2.5

When Last We Left Our Hero...

There's a tale, indeed, behind this symbolic cover penciled by Steve Leialoha and inked by Hilary Barta!
Superhero Captain Justice traveled from the 2-D world of comics to the 3-D real world and met his creator, Abner Bevis, along with fanboy Woody Greely, whose mother, Emma Greely, is a reporter working on an expose about local criminal "BlackJack" Kybo, whose son Eddie, has been bullying classmate Woody.
Captain Justice attempts to intercede with "BlackJack" to instruct his son to stop picking on Woody.
The meeting turns violent, Cap discovers he doesn't have his super-powers in this dimension, and gets his costumed butt kicked!
Meanwhile (as they used to say in comics), a hard-boiled detective named "Gumshoe", sent by the ruler of the comic dimension to retrieve Captain Justice meets Emma Greely and, because he's attracted to her, agrees to help her get proof on "BlackJack's"criminal activities.
But things take an unexpected turn when...












Inker Tony DeZuniga joins creatives J M DeMattis (writer) and Steve Leialoha (penciler) for this second and final issue adapting the pilot episode.
The TV series filmed seven episodes but only three aired before cancellation.
A pity, because the fourth episode was probably the most meta of all!
The ep, "Things Get Ugly", guest-starred Adam West as an unemployed actor who had been the in-universe TV version of Captain Justice, embittered at being typecast as the stalwart character!
Before we go, meet the cast you've been seeing in comic book form...

Clockwise from left, Milo O'Shea (Abner Bevis), Jeff Lester (Captain Justice/Brad Steele), Robert Forster (Gumshoe), Caitlin Clarke (Emma Greely), Josh Blake (Woody Greely)
And now, a bonus!
The episode you've just been reading about!

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Captain's Library & Theatre CAPTAIN JUSTICE "Once a Hero" Part 1.5

 We Have Already Seen...

...comic book character Captain Justice is about to travel across the Forbidden Zone to the "real world".
He's determined to find out from his creator, Abner Bevis, why his recent adventures were thinly-disguised reworkings of earlier stories...









Adapted from Dusty Kaye's screenplay by J M DeMatteis and illustrated by Steve Leialoha, Marvel's Captain Justice #1 (1988) took the 90-minute pilot episode and converted it into a two-issue mini-series.
Though Leialoha tried to differentiate the two-dimensional comic world from the three-dimensional real world with simplified linework and almost no solid black areas in the backgrounds for the comic dimension, the technological limitations of printing at that time minimalized his effectiveness!
(For example, using a coarser Lichetenstein-style dot screen for the colors in the comic book world would've enhanced the visual difference tremendously!)
Stan Lee contributed an introduction to the comic book which woud've been mirrored in the show itself.
But let's have The Man tell you what happened (Marvel Age #62 [1987])...



Now, here's a promo for the show featuring both Captain Justice and Gumshoe as they adapt to life in the "real world"...

More to come next week!

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Captain's Patriotic Library 1776 Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...it ain't easy starting a country!
If you think today's Congress is a mess, look at what the Founding Fathers were going through...













The Conclusion...with more musical numbers, tomorrow at... Atomic Kommie Comics

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