Fan CastingCaptain Action
by Stan Weston.
Story added by iamanerd on January 7, 2019
National Periodical (DC Comics) licensed the character from Ideal and published five issues of Captain Action in 1968,[2] illustrated at first by Wally Wood, then by Gil Kane. The scripts were by Jim Shooter and Gil Kane. The comic book story line had little to do with the toy concept, as some of the heroes licensed for use as costumes for the Captain Action doll were not owned and published by DC (Spider-Man and Captain America for example, were Marvel Comics characters), therefore the ability to change into different characters was entirely dropped. Instead, Captain Action came to possess magical coins, each of which provided him with a ...read more
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