Space-Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "Last Rites of Jagga!"

When Last We Left Our Hero (and His Astral Arch-Enemy)...

Jagga the Space Raider has been caught and is now on trial!
Will this truly lead to his execution and "last rites"?

Yeah, you knew he wasn't dead, right?

Writer Otto Binder and illustrator Leonard Frank didn't kill the evil alien in this story from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #56 (1947), but fear not!
His end is closer than you think!

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Space-Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "...Finds the Lunar Lair!"

Looks Like Captain Midnight's Alien Arch-Foe, Jagga the Space Raider, has Reached the End of His Criminal Career!

Place Your Bets, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Note: they still haven't fixed Jagga's chameleon-like coloring!

Judging from the cover, that trial is going to be a killer!

The unknown writer and artist Leonard Frank bring back long-time aides Joyce Ryan and Chuck Ramsey for a brief visit in this tale from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #55 (1947), though they don't actually participate in the adventure!
It's also their final appearance in the series.

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Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "Asteroid Battle!"

You thought we'd heard the last of evil Jagga the Space Raider?

Really?

Not only is he back, but displaying his chameleon-like ability to change color between the cover and the first page of his new battle with Our Hero...the "Monarch of the Airways" himself...Captain Midnight!

BTW, Jagga doesn't have chameleon-like abilities, though they'd probably come in handy.

The comic's editor didn't coordinate between the cover and interior colorists!

Not surprising, since the cover (by Charley Tomsey) and interior (by Leonard Frank) were likely prepped a couple of months apart.

And note that when the story and cover were reprinted in Australia...

...the Aussie editor had Jabba's coloring (somewhat) corrected!

Now, on with today's adventure...

Artist Leonard Frank and a presently-unknown writer continue the battle with Jagga in this tale from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #54 (1947).

And, yes, he'll be back...though what color he'll be, you'll have to wait and see!

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Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "Peril on Venus!"

Alien "space raider" Jagga had already encountered (and lost to) Earth's greatest defender, Captain Midnight...

...now the Sovereign of the Spaceways is about to encounter the Scoundrel of Space again!

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Writer Otto Binder and artist Leonard Frank continue the battle with Jagga (who's gone from Caucasian skin-tone to grey in his second appearance) in this tale from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #53 (1947).

He'll turn green (though not with envy) in later appearances!

Note that the then-current science of 1947 theorized Venus might, in fact, be habitable.
The idea that Atlanteans would've migrated there centuries earlier, when their continent sank beneath the waves, was unique.

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Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "versus the Space Raider!"

Our intrepid aviator-turned-astronaut faces his first interplanetary foe...

...in this never-reprinted story from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #52 (1947)!

Oh, you can bet on it, Cap!

Scripted by noted pulp and comic author Otto Binder, and illustrated by Leonard Frank, this was the first of several encounters with Jagga, who seemed able to change his skin color in each tale, likely due to colorists not being given reference of the character's previous appearances!

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Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "Moon Creatures!"

When Last We Left Our Heroic Aviator-Turned-Astronaut...

...and yes, it was a little longer than we intended between posts.

Sorry about that.

Luckily, the author can fill you in on what you may have forgotten...

Now, let's continue...

With this conclusion of the "Moon Expedition" two-parter from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #50 (1947), Captain Midnight became a full-fledged Space Hero, with an off-Earth adventure (usually cover-featured) in almost every issue until the end of his Golden Age run.
There were still occasional down-to-earth criminals and saboteurs, but extraterrestrials became the primary foes of the Sovereign of the Skies!

Next Week:

Witness as the Least-Likely Multi-Media Hero of All Journeys into Space!
You'll Never Guess Who!

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