Captain Truth And Nothing But Captain Truth

For anyone who thought superheroes wore only flamboyant costumes that showed off way more skin than they should have, then they would have used Captain Truth as their poster child. Coming out in 1945, Cambridge House Publishers did about three one-shot mixed bag anthologies, one of which was Gold Medal Comics debuting the exuberant musketeer wannabe in his own single story. Ken Elliot is a teenage orphan who instead of becoming a millionaire's youthful ward lives in poverty, but at sometime in his life he gained the powers of flight, bullet immunity, and super senses, although how he got these extraordinary talents is a big mystery as there was no enchanted ring or magical lightning involved. Ken dawns an outfit with a cavalier hat complete with a feather, plus matching red trunks, boots, and gloves that fully exposes his chest and legs, while getting a little more comfort from a canary yellow cape. In his only ever tale calling himself Captain Truth, the boisterous boy hero flies down and stops the evil black market hood Blackie from stealing tungsten which was hard to come by during wartime. Blackie escapes, and Ken has further trouble when he gets evicted, although his friend Joey lets him stay with him. It turns out that Joey's pop is Slug Warner, one of Blackie's gang, so Cap takes Blackie on a Christmas Carol trip throughout the world showing him how his crooked schemes are indirectly helping the Nazis. Slug decides to go legit, so Cap just let him go despite all the crimes he committed. Captain Truth is one swashbuckler who used the actual power of truth to turn bad guys straight, even though being bulletproof didn't hurt either.

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