Captain Comet

Captain Comet is the title of a series of comic publications are issued by the U.S. publisher DC Comics since 1951.

The stories of the series, which deal with the adventures of a futuristic space adventurer of the same name, are found in the science fiction genre.

Publication data

The first Captain Comet story appeared in the June 1951 issue # 9, edited by Julius Schwartz, series Strange Adventures, an anthology that brought several science fiction stories in each issue. Author of the first history of Captain Comet, and spiritual father of the figure was the writer John Broome, the drawings were by the artist Carmine Infantino worried. Infantinos designs for the visual appearance of Comets have remained valid until today. Among the later signers of Captain Comet Stories in Strange Adventures Murphy Anderson is especially noteworthy, who implemented the majority of Broomes scripts after Infantinos finish.

Within Strange Adventures published Captain Comet stories as one of several featureN up to issue # 49 from 1954. During the 1970s, more stories about the character in Secret Society of Super Villains have been published before in the 1980s and 1990s years as one of several lead characters in the LEGION series has been incorporated. More recently, also a mini-series was published under the title Mystery in Space, which tells a modern adventure Comets.

Plot and main character

Captain Comet is the nickname of Adam Blake, a man of the rest of humanity to 100.000 years is evolutionary advance due to genetic mutations. As a result of its genetic projection Blake is far more intelligent and physically powerful than other people, he has the ability to "Hell Watching " and objects via psychokinesis, so to move in his spirit. His " application name " Blake owed ​​this to the fact that immediately after his birth a comet vorbeizog the firmament, his friend Professor Emery Zackro blamed in later stories for starting the mutation of Blake's genes. In the 1950s typically completely overrated - - effects of radiation (as of comets emanating ) cited as the reason this especially were.

The enemy with whom Comet, which usually wears a futuristic space suit, had to deal mainly in the 1950s were mainly criminals, alien invaders and talking gorillas.

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