Captain's Library & Theatre: SuperSnipe and the Celluloid SuperHero!

Back in the 1940s, there was a comic character called SuperSnipe...

aka "The Kid with the Most Comic Books in America"!

Donning oversized red flannel longjohns and his father's lodge cape, the kid attempted to fight crime and saboteurs (it was World War II), usually with disastrous results...

Despite the wishful thinking of George Marcoux, who both wrote and illustrated this tale from SuperSnipe V1N7 (1943), there was no Doc Savage b-movie (or serial) during the 1940s, though his stable-mate, The Shadow, did get both a serial and several b-movies (plus, of course, his radio show)!

A Doc Savage movie almost got made in the mid-1960s, as detailed HERE.

The Man of Bronze finally made it to the silver screen in 1975...

...though there are those who wish he hadn't!

Captain's Library: LONE RANGER THE MOVIE Part 2

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto save a man being attacked by Indians...or are the ambushers someone pretending to be Indians?
If so, why?
Perhaps the answer lies with local rancher Reece Kilgore, who wants the nearby Indian reservation moved by any means, fair or foul!
Why?
The Lone Ranger, in disguise as a crotchety old gold prospector, visits the nearby town...

To be continued at  

Hero & Heroine Histories™

Tomorrow!

 The adaptor of the movie script is unknown, but the art is by longtime Lone Ranger and Silver (yes, the horse had his own comic) artist Tom Gill with inking on some pages by Joe Sinnott.

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Captain's Library: LONE RANGER THE MOVIE Part 1

Your eyes do not deceive you, fans!
There are cowboys and Indians running around here!
As a comic adaptation of a feature film based on a tv series based on a dramatic radio show about a masked hero, I felt this tale qualified as Captain Video material.
It's the never-reprinted adaptation of the 1956 feature film which was filmed right before the final season of the tv series began.
It was also the first color live-action Lone Ranger people saw!

However, this story is so big (over 60 pages) that it'll take more than one blog to tell it!
The story starts here, in the Secret Sanctum today and tomorrow, continues in Hero & Heroine Histories™ for the middle two chapters, then concludes in Western Comics Adventures™ on the 4th of July!
Join us as we make Internet history with the first multi-blog serialized story!

The Masked Man KNOWS things are NOT what they seem!
Tomorrow, the Lone Ranger and Tonto infiltrate and investigate...
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 The adaptor of the movie script is unknown, but the art is by longtime Lone Ranger and Silver (yes, the horse had his own comic) artist Tom Gill with inking on some pages by Joe Sinnott.

Check out our 
Western Comics online store...

...for duds and provisions!

plus these Lone Ranger tv/movie collectibles on Amazon...

Captain's Library: THE SHADOW Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Hero...

Shiwan Khan plans to destroy most of New York City with a prototype nuclear bomb while the President of the USA and several other high-ranking foreign dignitaries are in town for a conference.

Once they are dead, Khan will order his mind-controlled minions to rise up and seize control of the dead politicians' countries, reestablishing the Mongol Empire!

However, The Shadow has tracked Khan to his hidden lair, and is about to show the Last Descendant of Genghis Khan that the Weed of Crime Bears Bitter Fruit...

You did know the bartender was Cranston, right?

(go back to part 1, page 1 and look carefully.)

Next week, another never-reprinted comic book/graphic novel adaptation of a TV series, movie or radio show...

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Captain's Library: THE SHADOW Part 3

When Last We Left Our Hero...

Well, that covered the major points pretty well.  

Let's just go along for the ride...

We'll wait, but only until tomorrow, when we present the cataclysmic conclusion!

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