Captain Comet

Captain Comet is the title of a series of comic books published by the American publisher DC-Comics since 1951.

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

Release dates

The first Captain Comet story appeared in June 1951 in issue # 9 of the Julius Schwartz- edited Strange Adventures series , an anthology that featured several science fiction stories in each issue. The author of this first story about Captain Comet and the spiritual father of the character was the writer John Broome , the drawings were made by the artist Carmine Infantino . Infantino's designs for the visual appearance of Comet are still valid today. Among the later draftsmen of the Captain Comet stories in Strange Adventures , Murphy Anderson deserves particular mention, who implemented the majority of Broome's scripts after Infantino's departure.

Within Strange Adventures , Captain Comet stories appeared as one of several features up to issue # 49 from 1954. In the 1970s, more stories about the character were published in Secret Society of Super Villains , before moving into the 1980s and 1990s Years ago as one of several lead characters in the LEGION series . In the recent past, a miniseries titled Mystery in Space has also been published, which tells a modern adventure of Comet.

Plot and main character

Captain Comet is the nickname of Adam Blake, a man who is evolutionarily ahead of the rest of humanity by 100,000 years due to genetic mutations . As a result of his genetic lead, Blake is far more intelligent and physically more productive than other people, he has the ability to “clairvoyance” and to move objects using psychokinesis, i.e. power of his mind. Blake owes his "mission name" to the fact that immediately after his birth a comet passed the firmament, which his friend Professor Emery Zackro made responsible for starting the mutation of Blake's genes in later stories. The main reasons given were the effects of ionizing radiation (such as those emanating from comets) , which were typically completely overestimated in the 1950s .

The opponents that Comet, who usually wears a futuristic space suit, had to grapple with in the 1950s, were mainly criminals, alien invaders and talking gorillas.