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Monday, September 7, 2026

Monday Mecha Madness CAPTAIN VIDEO "Island of Conquerors"

Makino, the Robot Who Inspired the Creation of Marvel's Ultron...

...as we showed HERE, wasn't the only Metalic Menace that TV hero Captain Video battled during his short comic book career!
There were also these guys, mechanized monsters who plotted to take over the planet!

This story from Fawcett Comics' Captain Video #6 (1951) was penciled by George Evans and inked by Martin Thall.

You'll note that the Captain and Video Ranger now look like actors Al Hodge and Don Hastings, who played them on TV, instead of the generic "handsome hero" look of issues 1-4.

Unlike some of the more fantastic stories the comic produced, this one could have been done as a several-episode arc of the TV series, especially with the "human-looking" robots!

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN VIDEO "Dark Side of the Moon" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Aliens operating on the Dark Side of the Moon plan to attack Earth, and only Captain Video (with the Video Ranger) can stop them...

You may ask, "What's so special about this? It's typical sci-fi."
And you'd be right.
Except, due to their extremely low-budget nature, the Captain Video TV show and movie serial showed aliens who looked like this...