Myspace Layouts by Pimp-My-Profile.com
Click Here to Build Your Own Contact Table!Get Your Own! | View Slideshow
Rarities and custom uniforms and masks from various collections. Masks of Dr. Doom, Green Goblin, Red Skull, Nick Fury and Buckey available from 2GFX at www.gamesand beyond.com
I am an early action figure from 1966, who came with separate costumes to change into Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt. Fury, Steve Canyon and the Green Hornet.) I was Ideal Toy Company's answer to Hasbros' GI Joe, and had the same person behind me, toy and idea man Stan Weston...Stan Weston's company, Leisure Concepts, took the idea of a new 12" articulated action figure to Ideal Toys, who was looking for an answer to GI Joe to remain competitive in the market. Weston proposed Captain Magic (now married to Earring Magic Ken), a many-in-one hero, who could adopt the guise of several heroes. My name was changed to Captain Action (phew!), and was first marketed in 1966...I am proud to say that I have more detailed musculature than GI Joe. My original line included me in my blue and black uniform, with lightning sword and ray gun. Separate Superman, Batman, Lone Ranger, Phantom, Flash Gordon, Spider-Man, Captain America, Sgt Fury, Steve Canyon and Aquaman costumes (with assorted accessories) were made available; the next wave (1967) added Buck Rogers, Green Hornet, and Tonto, with a Blue Lone Ranger variation and collectible flicker rings in each box...I proved popular enough to come back in 1967 with an expanded line, adding a sidekick, Action Boy, and a mortal enemy, the blue skinned, exposed brain, bug-eyed alien Dr. Evil. I also picked up a vehicle, the Silver Streak, a two foot long amphibian car with missile launchers. Added to my gear as well were several sets meant to be used in my Captain Action identity. Now I had a four foot working parachute, a jet mortar, a jet pack, weapons arsenal, and several other secret weapons to add to my Action Cave, which the box for the Streak could convert into. This signaled an attempt by Ideal to build the line and focus on me as a hero in my own right, rather than just a base figure for other heroes...National Periodical (DC Comics) licensed my character and published five issues of Captain Action in 1968, illustrated by some of the top talent in the field, first Wally Wood, and then Gil Kane. Jim Shooter was the first scripter, Kane provided his own scripts for issues three through five. The comic book story line that was provided for the main characters had little to do with the toy concept, thus the ability to change into different super heroes was dropped (for the obvious reason that some of the heroes involved in the toy concept were not owned or published by DC, such as Spider-Man and Captain America, which were Marvel Comics characters). Instead, I came to be in possession of magical coins, each of which provided me with a spectacular power (shades of the original Captain Marvel)...Even though I survived only a two and a half year production run, my characters and accessories have become amongst the most fondly remembered, and expensive, action figures from the 1960s...I was revived in 1998 by retro toy company Playing Mantis. Captain Action as the Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon (with new figure Ming), Green Hornet, and Kato returned to the shelves as well as Dr Evil.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Action"
Here is the MySpace page of my alter-ego:
http://www.myspace.com/johncmedeiros
Click Here to get this from pYzam.com!
Click Here to get this from pYzam.com!
Click Here to get this from pYzam.com!
Myspace Layouts