''The Adventures of Captain Kentucky'' was a weekly comic-strip by

Don Rosa Keno Don Hugo Rosa (), known simply as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his Disney comics stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and other characters which Carl Barks created fo ...

, in the local newspaper ''

Louisville Times ''The Louisville Times'' was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1884 by Walter N. Haldeman, as the afternoon counterpart to ''The Courier-Journal'', the dominant morning newspaper in Louisville and the common ...

''. It ran from October 6, 1979, to August 15, 1982, after the publication of 150 episodes. It was a continuation of his earlier comic strip ''

The Pertwillaby Papers ''The Pertwillaby Papers'' is an adventure comic drawn by Donald Duck artist Don Rosa in the 1970s. The comic is about the adventures of Lancelot "Lance" Pertwillaby and his friends and colleagues around the world. History Rosa started drawi ...

'', with the main character, Lance Pertwillaby, having taken up job as a newspaper-journalist in

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...

, Don Rosa's hometown, and due to toxic waste being dumped into a sewer where Lance was happening to be writing a story, he discovers that by drinking the toxic waste, he is temporarily given super-powers. He salvages a large barrel and keeps a small vial of it on his person, in case of an emergency. The strip often featured real events and local celebrities from Louisville and Kentucky as backdrops, or, occasionally, as supporting characters in storylines. Also featured was Lance's Basset hound Cleo, based on Don Rosa's own dog of the same name and breed.

Collections

* ''The Captain Kentucky Collection'', 3 volumes, 1981–85 * ''The Don Rosa Archives - The Complete Captain Kentucky'', 2001, Gazette Bok, * ''Don Rosa Classics - The Complete Captain Kentucky'', 2012, Dani Books,

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* American comics American comic strips Kentucky in fiction Louisville, Kentucky in fiction {{Louisville-stub