They kidnapped captains from land, sea, and air to prove their superiority over all! It was a senseless crime - one that makes me affirm my vow to never rest until all the members of the Secret Society of Super-Villains are back in prison!
Secret Society of Super-Villains #6 is an issue of the series Secret Society of Super-Villains (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1977.
Synopsis for "Captains Cataclysmic!"
Captain Cold, Captain Stingaree, and Captain Boomerang kidnap three captains--of an astronaut crew, a ship, and a football team--and hold them for ransom, while Black Canary and Captain Comet strive to rescue them. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure breaks Copperhead out of jail, and announces to the Secret Society that he is taking over.
Appearing in "Captains Cataclysmic!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Secret Society of Super-Villains
- Captain Cold
- Captain Boomerang
- Captain Stingaree (Joins team)
- Copperhead
- Wizard (Joins team)
- Funky Flashman (Joins team)
- Lex Luthor (Joins team)
Other Characters:
- Debbie Darnell
- Superman
- Green Lantern (Mentioned only)
- Darkseid (Mentioned only)
- Star City Football Team
- Captain James Carone and three other Space-Lab astronauts
- Captain Timothy Nolan of S.S. Sunset
- Captain Jeff Peppard and other members of the Eastern Division All-Stars football team
Locations:
- Earth
- Orbit
- Justice League Satellite
- Space Lab
- San Francisco
- Loman Building
- Sinister Citadel
- Loman Building
- Star City
- Star City Bridge
- Star City Stadium
- Orbit
Items:
- Boomerang Metronome
Vehicles:
- Space Boomerang
- S.S. Sunset Cruise Ship
Notes
- It is unclear in this issue if the trio of Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang and Captain Stingaree consider themselves to be acting as the Secret Society of Super-Villains, or as a new team. The narration refers to them as Captains Cataclysmic, but it is ambiguous if that is an actual team name or just the narrator being bombastic.
- In Secret Society of Super-Villains #4, Sinestro and Wizard quit the Secret Society due to lack of interest in then-leader Manhunter's rebellion against Darkseid and their own overweening, antisocial narcissism. However, sometime within the span of last issue and this one, there seems to be an unspoken assumption that the Wizard is once more a legitimate representative of the Secret Society, due to the absence of clear organizational leadership following Manhunter's suicidal desperation attack against Darkseid, Funky Flashman's insistence upon being the Secret Society's publicity manager on the Wizard's behalf, and the a priori exclusion of Sinestro by his indiscriminate rampage through San Francisco and subsequent defeat by Green Lantern and Captain Comet.
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