" 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 ).

On top of this, he still performed other gestures, such as arranging police protection with his personal assurances for local artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, when they were threatened by Nazi supporters for their new patriotic comic book superhero, Captain America.

The Marvel Comics company itself exists within the Marvel Universe, and versions of people such as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby have appeared in some of the stories, whereas characters like Steve Rogers, ( Captain America's alter ego ), have worked for Marvel.

* 1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.

After graduating at the top of her class from Starfleet Academy's medical school, Beverly married Lieutenant Jack Crusher, who served under Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the USS Stargazer.

Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard were also acquaintances whilst the character's husband was alive, as Picard and Jack Crusher were close friends.

* In the episodes " Day One " and " End of Days ", Captain Jack Harkness uses a green device somewhat similar to a sonic screwdriver.

Shortly afterward, Ditko found work at the studio of celebrated writer-artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who had created Captain America and other characters and had instituted numerous industry innovations.

Ditko's known assistant work includes aiding inker Meskin on the Jack Kirby pencil work of Harvey Comics ' Captain 3-D # 1 ( Dec. 1953 ).

* June 4 – American Indian Wars: The Modoc War ends with the capture of Captain Jack.

Captain Davis identified the following traders in the Ellice Group: Edmund Duffy ( Nanumea ); Jack Buckland ( Niutao ); Harry Nitz ( Vaitupu ); John ( also known as Jack ) O ' Brien ( Funafuti ); Alfred Restieaux and Fenisot ( Nukufetau ); and Martin Kleis ( Nui ).

The Shield predates Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Captain America by 15 months, and his sidekick Dusty, from Pep Comics # 11, January 1941, predates Cap's sidekick Bucky by three months.

In 1901, Young Captain Jack was completed by Stratemeyer and promoted as Alger's last work.

* Mike Kazaleh's comic The Adventures of Captain Jack took place on the planet Pootwattle and featured a character who used many of Doodles ' jokes and catchphrases, such as " That's a killer!

He appeared in Martin Scorsese's " The Departed " as Captain Oliver Queenan, a commanding officer who is watching an undercover cop ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) who is a mole in an Irish American mob run by a vicous mob boss ( Jack Nicholson ).

To thank Great Ormond Street Hospital, Depp visited the hospital in November 2007 dressed in his Captain Jack Sparrow outfit and spent 4 hours reading stories to the children.

Folksinger and blues musician Leadbelly references Johnson in a song about the Titanic: " Jack Johnson wanna get on board, Captain said I ain't hauling no coal.

In " Utopia " the Doctor states that he finds it difficult to look at Captain Jack Harkness because Jack's existence has become fixed in time and space.

* President Franklin D. Roosevelt was played by Captain Jack Young, a lookalike who is seen only from the back.

Unlike classical Philoctetes, she is not recalled to her home but, rather, consigned by Captain Jack to the center of the Sun.

The line-up of late afternoon adventure serials included Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders, The Cisco Kid, Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, Captain Midnight, and The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters.

Captain Jack led his band back to California, and the Modoc War of 1872 broke out when the US Army tried to take them by force to return them to Oregon.

The revival of Doctor Who led by the openly gay writer Russell T Davies has also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin-off Torchwood.

The Red Skull was introduced in Timely Comics ' Captain America Comics # 1 ( cover-dated March 1941 ), written and drawn by the team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

In one famous scenario, the Captain makes up a lie regarding the reason for his lack of an undershirt by claiming that it got that way because " I used to be an exceedingly fierce and violent man, and when I was made angry the hair which covers my body in goodly quantity stood on end and so riddled my shirt with holes that you would have taken it for a sieve.

Many of Doohan's film appearances did centre on the role of Scotty, such as a cameo in National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, where he plays a policeman who tells his superior officer " I am giving it all she has got, Captain!

Captain Cresap's initial actions were innocuous, establishing a second ferry in the upper Conejohela down river from John Wright's but near his father-in-laws settlement at Peach Bottom, and demanding settlers either move out or pay Maryland for the right bank lands they'd already received from Pennsylvania, but here events soon got out of hand, blew up, and soon started Cresap's War by acting on behalf of Maryland as a henchman of Lord Baltimore confiscating farms near Peach Bottom and Wrightsville, establishing a second ferry there.

In 1919 he was pensioned off from the Austrian military with the rank of Captain because of tuberculosis that he got during the war.

Before leaving Fort Snelling, Custer spoke to General Terry's chief engineer, Captain Ludlow, saying he would " cut loose " from Terry the first chance he got.

Hill then went down with the ship when he played Captain Edward J. Smith on the ill-fated Titanic ( 1997 ), by James Cameron, with whom Hill got along quite well — an experience not shared by most working on the film.

" After word got out about the popularity of this live " Captain Jack " recording in Philadelphia, people working for Columbia Records heard the recording and signed Joel to the label.

The city of Brandon gets its name from the Blue Hills south of the city, which got their name from a Hudson's Bay trading post known as Brandon House, which got its name from a hill on an island in James Bay where Captain James had anchored his ship in 1631.

Buller got him a job as Assistant Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters on 24 August 1895, writing a new cavalry training manual ( in practice extensively assisted by Captain Douglas Haig ).

Monday 27 October 1823: The wind being fair, we immediately got under way, and continued our course to the northward till Friday afternoon, when it shifted, and came on to blow so hard, that we determind to run in shore and look out for anchorage ; this we found under the lee of a small island off Point Danger ( so named by Captain Cook ), about a mile from the land.

Although initially successful he was forced to retreat again by the end of March, when the militia and Maori kupapa forces under Captain Gilbert Mair got themselves mobilized.

The settlement of Nelson got off to a good start with Captain Wakefield doing everything he could to promote the orderly development of the colony.

Reed got his first significant roles in Hammer Films ' Sword of Sherwood Forest ( 1960 ), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll ( 1960 ), Captain Clegg ( 1962 ), Pirates of Blood River ( 1962 ), and The Curse of the Werewolf ( 1961 ).

He sees himself as Haddock's friend and cannot appear to appreciate the Captain's outbursts as genuine dislike for him: when Bianca Castafiore insured her jewels for a large sum of money, Wagg gave the Captain a critical phone call, saying that as a common " friend " of his and Bianca's, Haddock should have seen to it that Wagg got the deal.

After Marcie won, J. J. got mad at Victor for saving a dog instead of winning and then saids that Victor needs to stop being Captain Chaos, then Victor saids he doesn't care and he wanted to be Captain USA.

The incident is referred to in the contemporary account A General History of the Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson, which states " in one of which voyages ... Captain Hornigold, another of the famous pirates, was cast away upon rocks, a great way from land, and perished, but five of his men got into a canoe and were saved.

It is not known if she ever got her revenge on the Captain but he did die prematurely.

In 1851 it began to be called Tichenor's Humbug when an exploring party sent by Captain William Tichenor, founder of Port Orford, got lost and headed north of the port instead of south.

Hooker's tough, no-nonsense demeanor saw him often clashing with station Captain Sheridan ( Richard Herd ), but he always got the job done and was highly respected as a result.