Captain Battle is a
fictional hero and one of the features in
Lev Gleason
Lev Gleason Publications, founded by Leverett Stone Gleason (1898–1971), was the publisher of a number of popular comic books during the 1940s and early 1950s, including '' Daredevil Comics'', '' Crime Does Not Pay'', and ''Boy Comics''.
Backg ...
's ''
Silver Streak Comics'', from the period known as the "
Golden Age of Comic Books". The character is a wounded World War I veteran who has devoted his life to stopping war. He was created by Carl Formes and Jack Binder.
Publication history
The character appeared in ''Silver Streak Comics'' from issue #10 (May 1941) to #21 (May 1942).
The character was popular enough to get a brief solo series, published in Summer and Fall 1941.
Captain Battle is one of the four features in the second issue of
Image Comics'
Next Issue Project
The Next Issue Project is a series of American comic-book anthology one-shots published by Image Comics beginning in February 2008. The multi-title project, edited by Erik Larsen, creator of Savage Dragon, features comic book characters that h ...
, ''Silver Streak Comics'' #24.
Fictional character biography
Jonathan Battle was the youngest combatant in
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, and lost his eye. Since then, Jonathan Battle uses his jetpack, called a luceflyer, and a series of fantastic inventions to prevent World War II from taking place, including a Curvoscope, which allows him to see anywhere on the Earth by following the curvature of the Earth, and Dissolvo, which breaks down nerve and bone tissue into gelatin.
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In his first three-part story, Captain Battle fought an Asian wizard known as the Black Dragon, and his army of Deaglos, humans that the Dragon had transformed into angry bird-men. At the end of the story, the surviving Deaglos were changed back to human — including an orphan, Hale, who became Battle's ward and teenage sidekick.
During his run he had three ]sidekick
A sidekick is a slang expression for a close companion or colleague (not necessarily in fiction) who is, or is generally regarded as, subordinate to the one they accompany.
Some well-known fictional sidekicks are Don Quixote's Sancho Panza, ...
s: Hale, Kane and Captain Battle, Jr. (his son, William Battle).[ and Friar Diablo.
]
Film
In 2013, the film ''Captain Battle: Legacy War'' was released.
References
External links
Captain Battle
at the International Catalogue of Superheroes
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Fictional military personnel in comics
Fictional World War I veterans
Golden Age superheroes
Male characters in film
Captain Battle
United States-themed superheroes
Image Comics superheroes
Comics characters introduced in 1941
Male superheroes
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