1968 CAPTAIN ACTION LOT, DC Comics, 1968-1969!! $40.00! Gil Kane! Wally Wood!

1968 CAPTAIN ACTION LOT, DC Comics, 1968-1969!!  $40.00! Gil Kane! Wally Wood!

 These Books are in VG conditions with all pages here and complete, but with wear on the covers!

This series ran only 5 issues from December/Jan. 1968 to July/Aug. 1969 and were written and Illustrated by Comics' Legend Gil Kane!! This Lot has the middle three of them!!

 There's action galore, as Captain Action and Action Boy (His Son) take on several evil Masterminds!!

CAPTAIN ACTION:
 2 - Jan. 1969 - by Jim Shooter, Gil Kane and Inker Wally Wood sees the Heroes taking on the evil Krellik in Metropolis! The Silver Steak makes it's 1st apperance here!!

3 - March 1969 - by Writer and Penciller Gil Kane and Inks by the great Wally Wood, we see Captain Action in San Francisco as the coins of the Elder's mold together, as he takes n Dr. Evil...who turns out to be Action Boy's Grandfather!!

4 - May 1969 - "Evil at World's End!" is by Gil Kane, as Dr. Evil persuades the Alpha Centurans to help him take control of the Earth as part of a plan to relocate them there! On Earth, Dr. Evil uses his powers to create a replica of the late Kathryn Arno, wife of Clive Arno and mother of Carl Arno. Action Boy snaps Captain Action out of his stupor at seeing his dead wife, while at the same time the Alpha Centurans decide that they will no longer assist Dr. Evil in his plans to take over the Earth!!

 Here's the History of Captain Action at the bottom of this text, from Wikipedia!!

 Toy developer Stan Weston went to Hasbro's Don Levine with the idea of an articulated doll in the form of a soldier — a basic figure, and with limitless accessories. Levine and his Hasbro team took the concept, making it into G.I. Joe, the first modern action figure for boys — and the first to carry the action figure generic name, an attempt to remove the term "doll" from a toy for boys. Weston took his money from the G.I. Joe venture and founded his own licensing company, representing DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and King Features Syndicate.
 After the success of G.I. Joe, Stan Weston's company, Leisure Concepts, then brought the idea of a new, articulated, twelve-inch (305 mm) action figure to Ideal Toys Corporation, who were seeking an action figure of their own, to remain competitive in the toy market. Weston proposed Captain Magic, a many-in-one hero, who could adopt the guise of several heroes, all of whom Leisure Concepts represented. The name was changed to Captain Action, and first marketed by Ideal in 1966.
 The figure itself had a rather sad and worried expression, a strange shaped head (so the masks of the various heroes would better stay in place over it) and a more detailed musculature than G.I. Joe's. The original Ideal base for the line was Captain Action in his blue and black uniform, with lightning sword and ray gun included in the box. Separate Superman, Batman, Lone Ranger, The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Captain America, Sgt Fury, Steve Canyon and Aquaman costumes (with accessories) were available; the next wave (1967) added Spider-Man, Buck Rogers, the Green Hornet, and Tonto, with a Blue Lone Ranger variation (matching the still popular Clayton Moore series) and collectible flicker rings in each box.
 In 1967, Captain Action proved popular enough to expand the line, adding a partner, Action Boy, and an enemy, Dr. Evil, a blue skinned alien with large bug eyes and an exposed brain, wearing a modified Nehru suit and sandals. A line of female figures was also released called the "Super Queens Posin' Dolls", which featured Batgirl, Mera, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman figures. Unlike Captain Action and Action Boy, the Super Queens dolls were each individually based on a singular superheroine (instead of a base "Super Queen" doll with interchangeable outfits).[1] Also, a vehicle called the "Silver Streak," a 2-foot-long (0.61 m) amphibian car with missile launchers, was added, large enough for both the Captain and sidekick. Several sets meant to be used by Captain Action in his Captain Action identity were designed for the character as well: a four foot working parachute, a jet mortar, a jet pack, a weapons arsenal, and several other secret weapons to add to the Action Cave, which the special box for the Streak could convert into. Both the Captain and Dr. Evil received "secret lairs," which doubled as carrying cases for the figures, but which are now quite rare. All of this was an attempt by Ideal to build the "Action" line and focus on Captain Action as a hero in his own right, rather than just a base figure for other heroes.
After just a few years, the Captain Action line declined in sales. As a result, Ideal Toys discontinued it in 1968. Though Captain Action was produced for only two and a half years, the characters and accessories have become amongst the most fondly remembered, and expensive to obtain on the collector's market, action figures of the era.

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