Jim Albright
Few characters can claim a Golden Age debut and still be turning up in comics nearly eight decades later, but Jim Albright is exactly that kind of enduring figure. He first stepped onto the page in The Funnies #58 in 1941, brought to life by S. S. Van Dine and Bob Hebberd during comics' most electric founding era, and he's been a fixture of adventure storytelling ever since. His longest home has been the Captain Midnight corner of the comics world — where he keeps remarkable company, sharing pages with the likes of Captain Marvel, Billy Batson, Spy Smasher, and Alan Armstrong — and Dark Horse has carried his legacy into the modern era. With 73 catalog appearances and five key issues to his name, Jim Albright is a Golden Age original well worth seeking out.
Trivia
- Dark Horse's Captain Midnight revival, written by Jim Albright, was engineered as a time-displaced sequel rather than a clean modern reboot — the original Captain Midnight is yanked straight out of 1943 and dropped into 2013, a device that lets the series wring maximum tension from the collision between wartime optimism and a cold, corporate-dominated future.panelpatter.com
Top series
Covers through the years — 1941–2015
★ 1941 
★ 1974 
1990 
1996 
2013 
2015