Friday Night Fights: Not Afraid to Take a Risk

Once again, it's time to ring in the weekend with a little four-color chin music, with Captain Triumph serving as our bandleader this week:

(from Crack Comics #42, May 1946)
Hey, kids, don't forget to clean and disinfect your nutpick after each use! (It's also safe to say that one has passed beyond all accepted notions of dignity whenever white jodhpurs are involved -- especially so when they're hiked up near to the nipples.)

One of Quality Comics' roster of superheroes (later purchased by DC and incorporated into that company's superhero universe), Captain Triumph was the superheroic amalgam of the Gallant twins. By touching a t-shaped birthmark on his forearm, the not-dead Lance could merge with the spirit of his dead sibling Michael, thus becoming Captain Triumph and gaining a stock set of superpowers (flight, strength, invulnerabilty) . The character was something of a less versatile, Golden Age precursor to Deadman, with a touch of Captain Marvel tossed into the mix, but little else to distinguish him from his peers...

...at least until the third issue of James Robinson and Paul Smith's 1993 Elseworlds miniseries The Golden Age, which added a new, "adult" spin on the spectral sibling rivalry...

He makes it sound as if there's something wrong with an hour of hookers and crime-fighting...
Devo - Triumph of the Will (from Duty Now for the Future, 1979) - I love it when you talk totalitarian to me, baby.

(Viva Bahlactus!)