Captain Midnight Archives #2 - Captain Midnight Saves the World
(March 2014)

Dark Horse, 2013 Series
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Volume
2
Price
49.99 USD; 54.99 CAD
Pages
160
On-sale Date
2014-03-12
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Brand
Dark Horse Archives; Dark Horse Books
ISBN
978-1-61655-243-5 Search at WorldCat
Barcode
9781616552435 54999
Editing
Jemiah Jefferson (editor - collected edition); Roy Ald (editor - original series); Ralph Daigh (editor - original series)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Captain Midnight / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Reprints

[Captain Midnight #48] (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

Captain Midnight Visits The Golden Asteroid! (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright; Icky Mudd; Nicholas Hasch (villain, astronomer); Hasch's hired gunmen (villains)
Synopsis
An amateur astronomer discovers an asteroid some 50,000 miles from the Earth, and his electron microscope detects that the asteroid is loaded with gold. Captain Midnight and Icky fly him to the asteroid to get the gold....but the astronomer disagrees with the Captain about WHO gets that gold, and his men attack the Captain and Icky over the matter after they arrive. As it turns out, the gold is actually fool's gold!
Reprints

[Captain Midnight #50] (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Moon creatures
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art revision from Leonard Frank to Tomsey ? by Craig Delich.

Captain Midnight Spikes the Sun Gun! (Table of Contents: 4)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 8.66 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; un-named U.S. Army General; Dr. Pyrrho (villain, introduction, death); Pyrrho's thugs [Mike; other un-named] (villains, both die)
Synopsis
A new villain threatens to use the flaming fury of the Sun itself against the Earth and Captain Midnight.
Reprints
Keywords
Gliderchute; Mt. Carson; Sub-Car; Underground City

Indexer Notes

The last 1/3 of page 9 is titled "Captain Midnight's Air Lingo" and defines several air terms.

The Moon Creatures! (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Woolfolk
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Icky Mudd (cameo); Joyce Ryan; Professor Edan; the Moon creatures (villains, all die); Jordan (villain, death)
Synopsis
Arriving on the Moon, Captain Midnight and his companions bury escaped convict and murderer Jordan, who had planned to use the Moon as a hideout. Splitting up soon after, to scour the Moon for any sign of life, they find themselves threatened by living rocks with a silica base.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story is a continuation of a story in the previous issue.

[Captain Midnight #52] (Table of Contents: 6)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

[Captain Midnight #53] (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprints

Peril on Venus! (Table of Contents: 8)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Icky Mudd; Dr. Krell; Jagga (villain, space raider)
Synopsis
Hot on the trail of Jagga, Captain Albright gets an SOS from the planet Venus. When he and Icky land, they are greeted by Dr. Krell, originally from the planet Earth and a descendant of the lost kingdom of Atlantis. The SOS was sent, he says, because Jagga has taken over rule of his planet, so Captain Midnight confronts the evil tyrant. In a brief battle, Midnight drives Jagga away, but the villain drops a bomb toward Venus and Midnight thinks fast to counteract it.
Reprints
Keywords
Atlantis; Doom Beam Torch; Gliderchute; Pluto; The Comet; Venus

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

[Captain Midnight #54] (Table of Contents: 9)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Jagga
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

The Asteroid Battle! (Table of Contents: 10)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; King Zan (King of Ceres); Jagga (villain); Gool (villain, Jagga's assistant)
Synopsis
After his battle with Jagga, Captain Albright and Icky head towards the asteroids, unaware that Jagga is heading for the same place. Arriving on Ceres; the duo are startled to see everything made out of gold......then Jagga begins dropping poisonous gas bombs on the city. Midnight and Icky jump in "The Meteor" and do battle with the space raider.
Reprints
Keywords
atomic bomb; Ceres; Gliderchute; The Meteor

[Captain Midnight #55] (Table of Contents: 11)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Jagga
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Credits by Craig Delich.

The Sky Airport (Table of Contents: 12)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; The Sky Marauder [Hawk Hannigan] (villain); Hannigan's gang (villains)
Synopsis
Captain Albright's new invention to revolutionize transportation by air, the Sky Airport, is captured and used by criminals for crime!
Reprints
Keywords
Gliderchute; Nevada; Sky Airport

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

Captain Midnight Finds the Lunar Lair! (Table of Contents: 13)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; Joyce Ryan; Chuck Ramsey; Jagga (villain); Gool (villain, death)
Synopsis
Captain Albright and Icky return to Earth and soon head out to determine why ships have been found drifting at sea.....without their crews. Arriving on the scene, they discover Jagga at work again, and after a brief battle, Jagga heads for the Moon and Captain Midnight follows. He captures Jagga and returns him to Earth for trial.
Reprints
Keywords
Gliderchute

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

[Captain Midnight #56] (Table of Contents: 14)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dan Barry
Inks
Dan Barry
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprints
Keywords
Gliderchute

The Last Rites of Jagga! (Table of Contents: 15)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; Jagga (villain)
Synopsis
Captain Midnight becomes the star witness against Jagga, the Space Raider, who then surprises everyone on the courtroom when he announces that he is not a human being, therefore the laws of the nation do not apply to him! Even so, the court finds him guilty, and is sentenced to death, but further shocks all when the electric chair cannot kill him and he makes good his escape. Midnight tracks him down and leads his to his personal laboratory, when Jagga is supposedly killed by Midnight's radioactive ray machine.
Reprints
Keywords
Nevada; Pluto

[Captain Midnight #58] (Table of Contents: 16)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprints
Keywords
Gliderchute

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

The Planet of Peril! (Table of Contents: 17)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; un-named Professor; Christopher Columbus (cameo); Julius Caesar (cameo); Confucius (cameo); George Washington (cameo); un-named new planet inventor; The Purple Men [aka The Purple Pirates] (villains); Cain (villain, Biblical character); Genghis Khan (villain, the Mongol); Bluebeard (villain, pirate); Satan (villain)
Synopsis
Like Columbus before him, Captain Albright and Icky head into space to discover a new planet. Upon arrival, they are met by a green-skinned inventor, who shows Albright and Icky some of his inventions. Suddenly, they are attacked by the Purple Men, and, during the battle, the villains use the Molecular Projector to bring four infamous villains from the past to do battle. Unable to overcome Captain Midnight, the villains board Cap's spaceship and head toward Eath to enslave its people. Accomplishing this, Cap is further honored by having the new planet named Planet Albright!
Reprints
Keywords
Blackout Bomb; Character Detector; Doom-Beam Torch; Molecular Projector; Pigmentabulator

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

[Captain Midnight #59] (Table of Contents: 18)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprints
Keywords
Saturn

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

Captain Midnight Battles the Ice Age! (Table of Contents: 19)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; the Neptunian People; Jagga (villain, mention only)
Synopsis
After the battle with Jagga, Cap and Icky stop off on Neptune, saving a young child left behind because of an advancing glacier. They take him to a group of Netunians hiding in a cave, then head out to use atomic bombs on the glacier, thus preventing an ice age.
Reprints
Keywords
atomic bombs; Atomic Grenade; Mechanical Interpreter; Neptune; Triton

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

[Captain Midnight #60] (Table of Contents: 20)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprints
Keywords
flying saucer

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

Flying Saucers of Death! (Table of Contents: 21)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 8.67 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; un-named Los Angeles science Professor; un-named U.S. Army General; Dr. Osmosis [also as Professor Graves] (villain); Osmosis' gang [Karl; other un-named] (villains, both die)
Synopsis
Mysterious sightings of flying saucers, especially in California, where the saucers appear to be much larger than in the rest of the country, and an explosion of one causing serious fatalities, spurs Captain Albright to investigate. He discovers that the "saucers" are radio-controlled discs that are radioactive and highly explosive, and that Dr. Osmosis is behind them.
Reprints
Keywords
Gliderchute; North Dakota

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

The last 1/3 of page 9 is titled "U.S. Army Insignia: Aviation Badges", and illustrates six different wings: Command Pilot, Senior Pilot; Observer, Bombardier, Pilot, and Navigator.

[Captain Midnight #62] (Table of Contents: 22)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprints
Keywords
Gliderchute

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

Farmers on the Moon! (Table of Contents: 23)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; Miles (Moon farmer); Jim Klaw (villain); Klaw's gang (villains, all die)
Synopsis
Captain Albright provides farmers on the Moon with a new invention of his: the Air Condenser, which allows them to breathe while planting their crops. However, while on their return trip to Earth, Cap and Icky receive an SOS from the Moon, informing them that Earth raiders were attacking and that they had destroyed the Air Condenser.
Reprints
Keywords
Air Condenser; Electrogun

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

[Captain Midnight #64] (Table of Contents: 24)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Xog
Reprints
Keywords
Saturn

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

Beyond the Sun (Table of Contents: 25)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd; Chuck Ramsey; Jim Rogers (head of Interspace Airways); Xog (villain, King of Saturn, introduction); un-named Saturnians (villains)
Synopsis
Discovering signs of life on Saturn, Cap and Icky head for the planet and are menaced by weird shapes in the sky. Landing, they are taken prisoner and brought before Xog, Saturn King, who plans to invade the Earth and become its ruler, using a gaseous ring to create creature-warriors and rocket ships out of nothing! Captain Midnight invents a Gas Disintegrator and uses it to attack the created Saturn beings and ships.
Reprints
Keywords
Anti-Gravity Control; Electro-Repel Gun; Gas Disintegrator; Interspace Airways; Saturn; The Meteor

[Captain Midnight #66] (Table of Contents: 26)

Captain Midnight / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Tomsey ?
Inks
Charles Tomsey ?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Xog; Saturnians
Reprints
Keywords
Saturn

Indexer Notes

Art credits corrected from Leonard Frank ? to Tomsey ? and added by Craig Delich.

Without a Body! (Table of Contents: 27)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Frank
Inks
Leonard Frank
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; aviation; science fiction
Characters
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; un-named U.S. Army General; Jim; Ed; Xog (villain, King of Saturn); the Saturnians [Kara; rest un-named] (villains)
Synopsis
Midnight travels to Saturn to track down Xog, who wants to become ruler of the universe, is ambushed and turned into gas particles. Unless he can regain his original form, Xog may well succeed in becoming ruler of the universe!
Reprints
Keywords
Disembodying Ray; Saturn; Space Fleet; Stabilizer Ray-Gun

Indexer Notes

The AC reprint calls the character Major Midnight.

Art credits added by Craig Delich.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Captain Midnight
  2. 1. [Captain Midnight #48]
    Captain Midnight
  3. 2. Captain Midnight Visits The Golden Asteroid!
    Captain Midnight
  4. 3. [Captain Midnight #50]
    Captain Midnight
  5. 4. Captain Midnight Spikes the Sun Gun!
    Captain Midnight
  6. 5. The Moon Creatures!
    Captain Midnight
  7. 6. [Captain Midnight #52]
    Captain Midnight
  8. 7. [Captain Midnight #53]
    Captain Midnight
  9. 8. Peril on Venus!
    Captain Midnight
  10. 9. [Captain Midnight #54]
    Captain Midnight
  11. 10. The Asteroid Battle!
    Captain Midnight
  12. 11. [Captain Midnight #55]
    Captain Midnight
  13. 12. The Sky Airport
    Captain Midnight
  14. 13. Captain Midnight Finds the Lunar Lair!
    Captain Midnight
  15. 14. [Captain Midnight #56]
    Captain Midnight
  16. 15. The Last Rites of Jagga!
    Captain Midnight
  17. 16. [Captain Midnight #58]
    Captain Midnight
  18. 17. The Planet of Peril!
    Captain Midnight
  19. 18. [Captain Midnight #59]
    Captain Midnight
  20. 19. Captain Midnight Battles the Ice Age!
    Captain Midnight
  21. 20. [Captain Midnight #60]
    Captain Midnight
  22. 21. Flying Saucers of Death!
    Captain Midnight
  23. 22. [Captain Midnight #62]
    Captain Midnight
  24. 23. Farmers on the Moon!
    Captain Midnight
  25. 24. [Captain Midnight #64]
    Captain Midnight
  26. 25. Beyond the Sun
    Captain Midnight
  27. 26. [Captain Midnight #66]
    Captain Midnight
  28. 27. Without a Body!
    Captain Midnight
This issue was modified by
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Stangas