Popular culture historian Tim DeForest noted the impact of writer-artist Roy Crane ( 1901 – 1977 ), the creator of Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer:

* Roy Crane, Nationally syndicated cartoonist ( Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, Buz Sawyer )

Royston Campbell Crane ( November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977 ), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an influential American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer.

With the introduction in 1929 of the raffish soldier of fortune, Captain Easy, Crane heightened the spirit of adventure and later created a Sunday strip focusing on Captain Easy.

He followed that up with a starring role as Captain Lee Crane in the ABC television version of Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with Richard Basehart.

After the collapse of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown in 1970, when keyboardist Vincent Crane and drummer Carl Palmer left to eventually form Atomic Rooster, Brown worked with a varied group of musicians on projects called Strangelands, Puddletown Express, and ( briefly ) the Captain Beefheart-influenced Rustic Hinge, before finding the musicians who would make up Kingdom Come.

Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane.

Captain Lee Crane ( Robert Sterling ) is the Seaview's Commanding Officer.

Surfacing, Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane discover fire burning in the sky.

* Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane

Anderson also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) as " California Charlie ", the used car salesman who helps Marion Crane ( Janet Leigh ), and as Captain Bob Robertson on Emergency!

Franklin ’ s most recognizable acting role was his 1983-1985 portrayal of Captain Crane on the popular action-adventure series The A-Team.

Since the short Wash was not a fighter, Crane tried out several scrappier sidekicks until May 6, 1929, when he introduced Captain Easy, a tough, taciturn Southerner with a mysterious past.

After Crane ’ s departure, control of the strips passed to Crane ’ s assistant, Leslie Turner, who had worked on Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune since 1937.

The entire 1924-43 run of Crane ’ s strip was reprinted in Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, an 18-volume series with biographical and historical commentary by Bill Blackbeard and design by Bhob Stewart.

Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune was an action / adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933.

On May 6, 1929, Crane introduced taciturn toughguy Captain Easy, who soon took over the strip.

On June 11, 1933, Crane launched Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune as a Sunday page starring Easy.

Almost the entire 1924-43 run of Crane ’ s strip was reprinted in Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, an 18-volume black-and-white series featuring biographical and historical commentary by Bill Blackbeard.

Fantagraphics Books is reprinting the Captain Easy Sundays by Roy Crane in color, edited by Rick Norwood.

Crane approached King Features with an idea for a new strip, and when they offered him ownership, he abandoned Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy in 1943, giving full concentration to launching Buz Sawyer.

* The story " Flags of Our Fathers ", which happens during World War II, tells how Black Panther, Captain America, Sgt.

( Other fan fiction described as Captain Proton stories are Star Trek: Voyager stories whose action happens partly in Voyager's holodeck where the Captain Proton program is running.

However, the Mysterons ' attempt to assassinate the World President – for the purposes of which they kill and re-create Spectrum's foremost agent, Captain Scarlet, as an indestructible doppelganger – fails when a kidnapping of the president is foiled and the Scarlet reconstruction falls to its apparent death from the top of a tower, later regaining the consciousness of the original, human officer ( how this happens is never explained in the series canon ).

When that happens, the people disappear from the real world and appear in a computer world ( as featured in the cult film Tron, the animated series Code: Lyoko, or the late 1980s live-action series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future ).

Captain Haddock comes along near the end of the book, but it is never explained how this happens.

As the Mysterons somehow disable the cannons on the SPV's front ( Captain Blue presses the " Fire " buttons but nothing happens ), Captain Scarlet ejects Captain Blue and, in what would normally be a suicidal maneuver, rams the wheels of the DT-19 as it is speeding on the runway to try to stop it.

This, with a happier immediate outcome, also happens in Persuasion, when Wentworth overhears Anne making a similar observation about " women's constancy " to Captain Harville, and writes her a proposal which he gets to her by stealth.

* Star Control II: After the " traditional " ending in which it is told what happens after the Captain detonates the Sa-Matra, the credits roll along with humorous " outtakes " of the various aliens acting as if they were actors talking about a movie they were in.

He seeks the advice of Captain Al Murdock, Columbia's chief flight instructor, who also happens to be Nancy Pryor's boyfriend, even though their relationship was " on the rocks " at that time.

In Ultraman Zearth, Hayata is a night watchman ( who holds his flashlight up like a Beta Capsule ) and in Ultraman Zearth 2 he is a common citizen who tries to transform into Ultraman with a spoon ( echoing Hayata's performance from episode 34 ), Fuji ( the only woman who ever catches the MYDO plane taking off from a secret base exit, which happens to be a billboard ), Ide ( as a photographer ), and Captain Muramatsu, as a fisherman.

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.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

You never knew about it, but by God, we taught them respect for Captain Androfski ''.

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.

" 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 ).

* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

Common suggestions are that they are old English breeds introduced by the early whalers, or by Captain Cook or other early explorers.

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.

Philia's betrothal to the Captain is obviously nullified by the unexpected revelation that he's her brother.

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.

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

The internal political struggle and Sankara's leftist rhetoric led to his arrest and subsequent efforts to bring about his release, directed by Captain Blaise Compaoré.

* Vita Brevis: debutante frequently plagued by, but with a certain reluctant admiration for, Captain Foulenough.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

In a report made by a Captain Mathew Munthe on an anti-piracy patrol for North Carolina, " Thatch " was described as operating " a sloop 6 gunns and about 70 men ".

Teach may have used other aliases ; on 30 November, the Monserrat Merchant encountered two ships and a sloop, commanded by a Captain Kentish and Captain Edwards ( the latter a known alias of Stede Bonnet ).

The fleet was under the command of Captain Thomas Troubridge, and had been sent by Earl St. Vincent to reinforce Nelson with orders that he was to pursue and intercept the Toulon convoy.

Although Thévenard's manoeuvre was successful, it placed his own bow under Minotaurs guns and by 21: 25 the French ship was dismasted and battered, Captain Thévenard killed and his junior officers forced to surrender.