Shooter wrote the first issue of Captain Action ( Oct .- Nov. 1968 ), which was DC's first toy tie-in.

" Captain Marvel's sales soundly trounced Superman's self-titled series and Action Comics alike, and the comic at one point was issued biweekly to capitalize upon that popular interest.

A short Fantômas story by Paul Kupperberg and Roy Mann appeared in Captain Action Comics # 1, published in 2009 by Moonstone Books.

However after " Right men Action Stations ", this doesn't stop the Fire Brigade absent mindedly getting out the fire hose and receiving a rebuke from Captain Flack (" No no!

* Captain Grahame R. Hicks, CIOSH EnvDip " Objection to Dunnington traffic lights ", Action Access A1079 website, 2 September 2006, retrieved 31 October 2006.

Task Group 60. 5, the Surface Action Group under Captain Robert L. Goodwin, was made up of a missile cruiser, missile destroyer, and another destroyer.

The Combat Action Ribbon is a personal decoration of the Department of the Navy and United States Coast Guard that may be awarded to those who, in any grade including and below that of a Captain in the Navy and Coast Guard ( or Colonel in the Marine Corps ), have actively participated in ground or surface combat.

At the Action of 18 June 1793 Nymphe fell in with the Cléopâtre, also of 36 guns, commanded by Captain Mullon, one of the few officers of the ancien régime who still remained in the French navy.

He is also seen in the pages of Action Comics # 882, as part of the government project 7734, attempting to capture the rogue Captain Atom, who had since returned to his former identity.

* Captain Action Season 2 # 1 ( Moonstone, 2010 )

Grenfell was 33 years old, and a Captain in the 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed during the Action of Elouges took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Captain Action was an action figure created in 1966, equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger ( and Tonto ), Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt.

Captain Action was the Ideal Toy Company's answer to Hasbro's G. I.

The name was changed to Captain Action, and first marketed by Ideal in 1966.

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.

In 1967, Captain Action proved popular enough to expand the line, adding a partner, Action Boy, and an enemy, Dr.

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 ).

Several sets meant to be used by Captain Action in his Captain Action identity was designed for the character as well: a four foot working parachute, a jet mortar, a jet pack, weapons arsenal, and several other secret weapons to add to the Action Cave, which the special box for the Streak could convert into.

Sometimes ships waited for days for such a man, but Captain Heard was lucky.

Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.

Captain Chandler saw that it was building up strength.

After Captain Docherty sent Arleigh Griffith for Hoag he was able to complete his detailed inspection of the third floor and to receive a report from his man covering the floors above before Griffith returned, buoyed up by a brief stop for another glass of champagne.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Spencer was quiet for a moment longer, then he said, `` There is nothing I want to say, Captain ''.

There was a tap at the door and Oliver entered with the word that Heiser wished to see the Captain.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

* Captain Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

Upon arrival there, Phillip was to assume the powers of Captain General and Governor in Chief of the new colony.

The system of having two rectors was found to lead to frequent quarrels and the republic thenceforth sent out a single official styled Bailie and Captain, assisted by two councilors, who performed the duties of camerlengo by turns.

Napoleon returned to Paris for review, was exonerated, promoted to Captain and given leave to escort his sister, a schoolgirl, back to Corsica at state expense.

The Chief Captain ( senior military commander ) of the Nephites during this time was Captain Moroni.

Baker was discovered in 1818 by Captain Elisha Folger of the Nantucket whaling ship Equator, who called the island " New Nantucket ".

In August 1825 Baker was resighted by Captain Obed Starbuck of the Loper, also a Nantucket whaler.

The settlement was named Meyerton after Captain H. A.

Factional infighting developed between moderates in the CSP and radicals led by Captain Thomas Sankara, who was appointed prime minister in January 1983.

He was promoted to Captain on 30 June 1937 and was then given command of the destroyer in June 1939.

* 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.

In the Voyager episode " Parallax " Tuvok states that the Captain has the authority to conduct a court-martial on the ship, given the circumstances of the ship being isolated from the Federation.

This would require Villeneuve's force of 33 ships to join Vice-Admiral Ganteaume's force of 21 ships at Brest, along with a squadron of 5 ships under Captain Allemand, which would have given him a combined force of 59 ships of the line.

Captain Dreyfus initially had promised not to attend the funeral but was given permission by Mme Zola and attended.

* Transit ( ship ), the name given to the three sailing vessels designed and built for Captain Richard Hall Gower

The command of the expedition was given by the admiralty to Captain James Cook.

In the series Star Trek: Enterprise, T ' Pol is given, through her in-name-only husband Koss, an IDIC pendant from her mother T ' Les which projects a holographic relief, enabling T ' Pol and Captain Archer to find the location where T ' Les and the Syrrannites are hiding.

Letter of marque given to Captain Antoine Bollo via the shipowner Dominique Malfino from Genoa, owner of the Furet, a 15-tonne privateer, 27 February 1809

Of other Gondor posts, in Tolkien's writings appear " ministers of the Crown concerned with ' intelligence '" who surveyed the palantíri ( see below ); Captain of the Hosts, borne by future King Falastur during the reign of his father ; and Captain of Gondor and Captain-General of Gondor applied to Faramir and Boromir respectively, with the former title also given to Eärnur when he commanded the Gondor army in Arthedain prior to his crowning.

The name New Munster was given by the Governor of New Zealand, Captain William Hobson, in honour of Munster, the Irish province in which he was born.

The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 ( consisting of 10 civil officers, 212 Marines, including officers, additional 28 wives and 17 children of the marines, 81 free persons, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts ; total free persons: 348, prisoners: 696 ; total 1044 ), to establish the first European colony in Australia, in the region which Captain Cook had named New South Wales.

A new Suicide Squad title was launched, and Captain Marvel was given his own new mini-series to establish his new post-Crisis origin.

A statue of Captain Burns stands on a 40 ton, Mount Airy granite pedestal in the center of the town's public square, which was given the official name of " Bailey Square " by the Yancey County Board of Commissioners on September 1, 1930.

The statue of Captain Burns was given to the county on July 5, 1909, by Walter Francis Burns, a grandson of the sea captain.

One of the earliest grants in the area was given to Captain Samuel Cobrin, commander of a local militia company, on September 29, 1750.

The Milk River was given its name by Captain Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, who described the river in his journal:

The fifth Captain Marvel is Khn ' nr, a Skrull sleeper agent who is bound with Mar-Vell's DNA to lock itself into Mar-Vell's form and given technological replicas of the Kree Nega-Bands.

Some time later, the Skull killed the would-be Captain America, Roscoe, while Rogers had temporarily given up the role.

Skull took the cure and apparently killed Superia, then arranged for Captain America to be kidnapped by his remaining forces and given a blood transfusion that cured him.

The islands were given their collective name and also English names by Captain Cook when he sailed through the area in 1770.

The name Lizard Island was given to it by Captain Cook when he passed it on 12 August 1770.

Captain William Hobson was called to the Colonial Office on the evening of 14 August 1839 and given instructions to take the constitutional steps needed to establish a British colony.