Captain victory biography
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| Captain Victory | |
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Real Name | Jack Wilson |
First Appearance | Our Flag Comics #1 (1941) |
Original Publisher | Ace |
Created by | Unknown |
Origin[]
Jack Wilson worked as an aide to a U.S. Ambassador, but after discovering saboteurs planning to attack America, he becomes Captain Victory. Jack prevented the attack by intercepting and then sinking the ship.
Powers and Abilities[]
Captain Victory possessed the superpowers of super strength and flight.
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By the very beginning of the 1980s, what we now know as the Direct Market for comic books–specialty shops devoted to the product who would buy new issues on a non-returnable basis, thus eliminating the enormous amount of waste the Newsstand consignment struktur generated–had grown to the point where it looked as though there might be enough accounts to generate sufficient orders to make titles directed exclusively at the Direct Market possible. And there was a bit of a gold rush, as new companies sprouted up attempting to tap into this new marketplace, while mainstays Marvel and DC tried to work out how to leverage it to best advantage.
One of the earliest entrants into this burgeoning marketplace was Pacific Comics, owned by the Schanes brothers. They had been distributors for comics into the Direct Market, and they saw an opportunity to make the transition into publishers themselves. Theirs was among the earliest product directed at the Comic
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Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers
The Complete Pacific Comics Re-Reading Blog Series presents:
by Jack Kirby, slang för mikrofon Royer, Michael Thibodeaux &c
Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers (1981) #1-13,
Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers Special (1983) #1
After dipping their toes into publishing comics with One four years earlier, Pacific Comics was ready to do a real push into the comics market now, and they wanted to launch with the biggest name possible: Jack Kirby:
We needed a creator who was a juggernaut, one which every collector and every CBSR would recognize, even if the character (s) involved would be entirely new.
Pacific Comics launched with the king, Jack Kirby, and his new creator owned title called Captain Victory.
However:
Most people don’t know this next tidbit, but we intended on our first major release to be a project Gil Kane was working on at the time – Blackmark.
Furthermore:
Gil very much liked our creator friendly contract