BBB Pulp Pick - Captain Midnight

Fawcett Comics were going strong through the "golden age of comics". By 1946, Captain Marvel alone was published bi-weekly on the title, Captain Marvel Adventures, which sold well over a million copies per issue.

Other Fawcett comic legends were born including Bulletman, Spy Smasher, and even Hoppy, The Marvel Bunny, who appeared monthly in Fawcett's Funny Animals magazine.

But for my dime, one of the best comics of this golden era was a spinoff from a popular radio show ... Captain Midnight. After Dell introduced the character to comic books in 1941, Fawcett Publications stepped in to publish Captain Midnight as a successful long-run comic book from June 1942 until September 1948. Otto Binder was one of the writers on the comic book, and the illustrators for this Fawcett title included Leonard Frank, Clem Weis-Becker, Lincoln Cross and Al Bare.

Dave O'Brien had the title role in Columbia Pictures' 15-episode Captain Midnight (1942) serial, and the Captain Midnight newspaper strip that same year was credited to Jonwan.

The Captain Midnight TV series, starring Richard Webb, began September 9, 1954, on CBS, continuing for 39 episodes until January 21, 1956. The series filmed at the Ray Corrigan Ranch in Simi Valley, California.

And who can forget TV Captain Midnight's jet decoder? or the bright red Ovaltine "shaker mug"?

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