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The 40s
The War Years
The modern form of Captain Chair came about in 1940. It was felt during the war that the children of Britain needed a hero to lighten the dark days ahead. Spark comics was still in production but was mostly now telling stories for girls. However, after a 3 month long negotiation Chair Club agreed to Spark's suggestion to drop the Aztec angle and bring Captain Chair into the 20th Century - with the condition that he would retain his traditional values of truth, honour, justice and loyalty, and of course his pollaxe.
On the 19th September 1940, Captain Chair returned. The first issue of Captain Chair Monthly described how the nasty Germans were experimenting with household furniture in the hope of creating evil possessed chairs that could kill people. After all, who would ever be suspicious of a chair?
The British government learnt of the plot and decided that there was no other choice but to risk using the experimental super formula they had been developing on a soldier to give him the power to inflitrate the german military base and thwart the Nazi plans.
Of course things are never that easy, and the Germans learnt of the British plot to stop their plot and ordered the destruction of the lab. After 3 pages of explosions, an innocent passerby became exposed to the super formula.
Initially reluctant to take the assignment, Captain Chair eventually agreed (written as a way to encourage doubters to support the country in time of war and sign up to fight) and was given a sidekick in the form of Bridge Boy.
Bridges are always a priority target in wartime and Bridge Boy was assigned to assist Captain Chair in demolishing any bridges on German supply routes. Chair Club was not happy with this as bridges have always been held in high regard, but it was made clear by Spark that Bridge Boy's attitudes would change to the protection of bridges as soon as the war was over.
Captain Chair's war story was continued long after WWII itself ended. The character had become so linked with the war that no writer knew what else to do with the character. The series came to an end with issues 122 -124. The first 2 parts of this final story saw Hitler being killed due to the strategic placing of a bomb under his chair. Unfortunately this story also saw the death of Bridge Boy as he was ironically thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge by a Nazi soldier, catching his cape in the propellor of a passing boat.
Issue 124 saw Captain Chair reflect on his time in the army and eventually giving up his role as superhero to retire to a cottage in Yorkshire.
