Captain Confederacy
| Captain Confederacy | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | SteelDragon Press (first series) Epic Comics (second series) |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | mini-series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | 1986 (first series) November 1991 – February 1992 (second series) |
| Number of issues | 12 (first series) 4 (second series) |
| Creative team | |
| Creator(s) |
Will Shetterly Vince Stone |
Captain Confederacy is an alternate history comic book by Will Shetterly and Vince Stone that was first published in 1986, revived in 1991–92 then published online with new and revised material in 2011. It tells the story of a superhero created for propaganda purposes in a world in which the Confederate States of America won their independence from the United States.
Issues 1–12 were published beginning in 1986 by Steeldragon Press. A special edition of issue #1 was also published with some revisions. John M. Ford plotted three issues of the first series and wrote one, issue #10's "Driving North." The series is, as of July 2015, available online — in a somewhat revised form — as well as having been collected in two trade paperbacks.
The second series was published by Marvel's Epic Comics and can also be found on line. A connected story Yankee UFO, concerning a person from another alternative history where Edward Kennedy is President of the United States trapped in Captain Confederacy's world, was published on line in 2008.
The first Captain Confederacy, featured in the first series, is an out-of-work actor who agrees to undergo a biological experiment that grants him super strength, enhanced agility and healing abilities as well as limited psychic abilities. In the second series, the new Captain Confederacy is a black woman, pregnant with the previous Captain’s baby. She has similar superpowers garnered from the same sources.
The first series, published in the SteelDragon Press run, tells how the first Captain Confederacy, a white man, becomes disillusioned with the Confederate Society after the death of his friend. Both the Captain and his friend are actors in a series of staged TV "news events" which are actually propaganda designed to maintain and reinforce the Confederate ideals by portraying Confederate-themed superheroes Captain Confederacy and his female sidekick Miss Dixie battling a black supervillain Blacksnake (his friend in real life). When his friend becomes fed up with his status as a second class citizen within the Confederacy and his own culpability in perpetuating same for his race through his participation in the propaganda, he refuses to continue in his TV role, and he is shot. This leads Captain Confederacy to rebellion against his country. All of the superheros/actors involved were given medical treatments which produced genuine superpowers (both physical and psionic), to enhance the realism of the propaganda news telecasts. They discover that the effects of these treatments have both made them addicts and are slowly killing them.
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