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Captain Action Comic Launches in April » Comics Worth Reading — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:40:39 +0000

[...] March 2007, Moonstone asked for Captain Action proposals. Long-time established comic writer Fabian Nicieza got the gig. In June, they asked for art [...]

By: Nat Gertler

Nat Gertler — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:41:14 +0000

“Lodestone” itself was a bit of a dodge; it was a company that popped up as a spin-off of another new publisher, Deluxe. As best as I can recall, Lodestone popped up when Deluxe got sued over Wally Wood’s THUNDER Agents, which they were producing apparently under the assumption that the THUNDER Agents were public domain (a notion that the law ultimately disabused them of) and Lodestone appeared to protect the rest of their books from that suit.

Doing the Captain Action pitch is tempting…

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:36:54 +0000

This is entirely beside the point, but part of the reason the ’80s Mission: Impossible was dodgy was that it was conceived as a dodge around a TV writers’ strike. The producers took scripts from the original show and redid them on the cheap.

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:38:34 +0000

And, of course, Mission: Impossible itself was revived as a pretty dodgy TV show in the mid-80s…

By: Ali Kokmen

Ali Kokmen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:20:49 +0000

Heh. I’m kinda a Mission: Impossible (the 1960s TV show) fan, so I think the reason I remember Codename: Danger is because the title is similar to M:I. I just have to remember that the series isn’t really a riff on M:I, but Captain Action. Go figure…

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:44:59 +0000

According to the GCD, it was four issues from Lodestone. What a memory you have!

By: Ali Kokmen

Ali Kokmen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:04:40 +0000

Here’s a bit of comics trivia for ya. In the mid-80s, there was to be a relaunch of the Captain Action character by some indy publisher. That fell apart when the proprietor backed out, but the stories that had been developed for that Captain Action relaunch were rejiggered and published as a short-lived series called “Codename: Danger.”

I know I have “Codename: Danger” somewhere in the collection, but I can’t recall a single thing about the comics themselves. Other than that they had a cool logo, that is…