As promised earlier this week, this post is an attempt to recreate a Sunday Evening Video post from 2008, where I brought you a bunch of video clips about the cool 1960s action figure, Captain Action. The original post used flashvideo inserts that simply no longer work, so I’m going to need to do some work to restore these. Some of the videos may no longer be online, so I’m just going to leave them out of this repost. There’s a little bit of re-writing that will be necesary. I also expect to excise multiple dead links I’m writing this intro before I begin work, so let’s see how it all works out…

All right, I’ll admit it. I’m in the tank for Captain Action. I know it’s media bias, but I’m going to take any chance I can to write about one of my favorite childhood toys, especially now that he’s coming back. I’ve put in now-dead links to Captain Action Enterprises, and Moonstone Comics.  And you know I’ll send you over to Cast Away Toys,  where they’re bringing the good Captain back as  MEGO-style action figure.  I even wrote about the new poster from comics legend Murphy Anderson. So, since there are some videos floating around, let’s look at Captain Action, starting with the very first commercial from the 1960s:

Cool, huh? Well, after the jump, you can see what Captain Action is up to these days, in the midst of his big revival!

Monstone Comics had just published a revival of Captain Actionh, but sadly their video trailer for the comic, as well as a related interview with Ed Catto,  is no longer online.  Here’s a report from the launch party for the new comic book.

Let’s take a look at a fun little fan-made adventure, which, if it came true, would vastly improve driving conditions here in West Virginia.

Finally, we take a quick look at the model kit.

You can probably tell that Captain Action was, and is, a big deal to me. Another favorite toy from my childhood was a collection of motorized robots called “Zeroids.” Guess why 2009 is going to be a very good year for me, toy-wise (Note: While a Zeroids comic book did show, as of yet the toys have yet to be revived) ….