Creation

Captain Paragon was created by Bill Black. His first appearance was in Paragon Presents #1 (1970), published by AC Comics. The character was born from Black's initial attempt to revive the original Captain Marvel in his 1969 fanzine, Paragon Golden Age Greats, Vol. 1, #2. Following legal advice from his mentor, Martin L. Greim, to avoid copyright issues with Fawcett, Black destroyed the print run and redeveloped the concept into his own original hero, Captain Paragon.

Black further expanded the character's mythos by revealing in Sentinels of Justice #6 (1987) that Captain Paragon's origin was intrinsically linked to a 19th-century Western hero, The Latigo Kid, who had first appeared as a separate character in Captain Paragon and the Sentinels of Justice #5 (1986). The secret identity, Charles Starrett, was a direct homage to the actor who portrayed the Durango Kid in Western films.

Ac ins a publisher specialized in reprints and integrating various public domain characters into a cohesive universe, as seen in titles like Latigo Kid Western, which featured crossovers with characters like Black Phantom and Red Mask.

Major Story Arcs

When aliens from the planet Rur needed a champion, they decided to abduct one of the many super beings that live on earth. The one they select is Captain Paragon, who has been in suspended animation for 30 years.

Subjected to Life Fluid which revives him, and then to a Stellar Erg Implanter which restores his full super strength, Captain Paragon remembers fighting the villainous Black Shroud in 1952 and being frozen, but nothing more. Using his might to punch his way from the Rurian spaceship, he flies through space (his body is indestructible) and back to earth, where he tries to find out who he was before being trapped by the Black Shroud.