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This Captain X you speak of! Does he really exist or is he just a myth, like the Bowmen of Mons?
- -- Buck Dare
Appearing in Star-Spangled Kid: "The Bund Saboteurs"
Featured Characters:
- Star-Spangled Kid (Sylvester Pemberton) (First appearance)
- Stripesy (Pat Dugan) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- John Pemberton (Sylvester's father) (First appearance)
- Gloria Pemberton (Sylvester's mother) (First appearance)
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- Star-Rocket Racer (First appearance)
- The Weel (Single appearance)[1]
Synopsis for Star-Spangled Kid: "The Bund Saboteurs"
- Synopsis not yet written.
Appearing in Captain X of the RAF: "Dam the English Channel"
Featured Characters:
- Captain X (Buck Dare) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Stuffy, Buck's mechanic (First appearance)
- Tribute's Editor (First appearance)
- Commander Lane (First appearance)
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Locations:
- Tribute (First appearance)
- Captain X's underground base, in Kent, near the Great Chatham Naval Base
Items:
- Viscid, a metal-forming liquid
Vehicles:
- Jenny (First appearance)
Synopsis for Captain X of the RAF: "Dam the English Channel"
Nazi scientists have developed a liquid called "viscid" which combines with water to instantly form a hard metal, and employ it to build a dam across the English Channel, enabling a mechanized invasion of England.
Buck Dare, a reporter for a London newspaper "Tribute" and secretly Captain X of the RAF, flies an advanced warplane called "Jenny," made from a pale blue plastic alloy and powered by U-237, hangared in an underground base in Kent. Jenny has a range of 25,000 miles, fully loaded, and can cruise at 700 mph. Also Jenny can hover in place, using a special vibrating ray.
Seeking a story for his editor, Buck flies over to Dunkerque and abducts the first German officer he happens to see, but the resulting fight carries him down a secret hatch and into an underground tunnel, where he soon encounters the Wermacht's Channel-Dam-building project. One boastful officer spills the beans, and Captain X quickly grabs control of the viscid-pumping machinery, and uses it to block out the German infantry, then to sabotage the dam wall. He and his prisoner emerge into the channel and rise to the surface, using the metal-creating properties of viscid to slow their ascent and avoid getting the bends. They then swim back to Dunkerque, where Captain X uses a radio-control device to recall Jenny to him, and soon they are en-route to Britain. Dare rigs up the captured officer with a parachute and kicks him out of the plane over Croyden Airdrome, and radios in the position of the Channel-dam-building project. The RAF dispatches a flight of Blenheim bombers to the site, and they bomb it into rubble. Buck Dare turns in his newspaper story.
Appearing in The Tarantula: "Ace-Deuce"
Featured Characters:
- Tarantula (John Law) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Olga (First appearance)
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Synopsis for The Tarantula: "Ace-Deuce"
- Synopsis not yet written.
Appearing in Armstrong of the Army: "Mystery of the Aerial Photographer"
Featured Characters:
- Armstrong
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Synopsis for Armstrong of the Army: "Mystery of the Aerial Photographer"
- Synopsis not yet written.
Appearing in Star-Spangled Kid: "Dr. Weerd and the Metal Monster"
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- James Stanton alias Dr. Weerd (First appearance)
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Synopsis for Star-Spangled Kid: "Dr. Weerd and the Metal Monster"
- Synopsis not yet written.
Notes
- Star-Spangled Kid:
- Syl is only 11 or 12 at this point, per Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #9, April 2000.
- Captain X of the RAF:
- Buck Dare smokes a pipe.
See Also
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Star-Spangled Comics Vol 1 1 on the forums
- Images from Star-Spangled Comics Vol 1 1
Recommended Reading
- Star-Spangled Comics
- Star-Spangled War Stories
Links and References
- Star-Spangled Comics #1 index entry
- Star-Spangled Comics #1 Captain X of the RAF: "Dam the English Channel" story online
- Star-Spangled Comics at Wikipedia.org
Footnotes
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