This isn't intended to be a bragging thread or anything (in spite of the title - that's just a tease) - in fact, the stuff I'm going to "feature" often won't be rare or hard to get - I just wanted to showcase some of the more unusual stuff I've got. Every so often, when I get bored and have some time (could be every day, could be a week between new posts), I'm going to snap some photos and discuss a little bit about what I'm posting. Fell free to talk about what I've posted (and correct anything I've posted that is incorrect), post stuff like "I've got that too" and, for more fun, post pics of some of your more unusual Nintendo-related items.
Today's post will feature the best Captain next to Cap'n Crunch ever - Captain N, The Game Master!
Now, of course, there's the super-awesome TV show that's out on DVD. There's three seasons, the first two seasons being compiled in what's called "The Complete..." while the third is bundled with the Super Mario World animated series.
But here's the fun part - The third disc of the first set was published with an error. Part of one of the episodes ("Queen of the Apes", for those wondering) is missing a couple of minutes of footage. Shout Factory created a corrected disc, but this disc was never shipped in any sets, it was only available through a replacement program. After writing them and telling them what a Captain N Fan I was (and offering to buy a second set just to send in for the replacement disc), Shout Factory was awesome enough to just send me a free copy of the replacement disc, letting me keep my old disc as well. I didn't even have to pay for shipping!
Now, the little-known counter part to the TV series is the comic series.
Frankly, it wasn't all that great. But then, neither was the show.
The comic series is a fun romp through Videoland, featuring our Hero, Captain N, Duke, Lana, Kid Icarus (yeah, yeah, his name's Pit) and... Samus! Absent from the series is any third-party characters (No Simon, no Mega Man, etc..)
The first issue re-tells the origin of Captain N and the N-Team in the first two pages... Check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7us8CF4eD4Sorry for the blur - it's rather hard to capture this...
As far as I know, there's only five issues of the series. Close ups of the covers here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMbp_a3sQyo And yes, that's Samus being all sexy on the fifth cover with Kevin.
In the back of the fifth issue, there's a preview of the 6th issue's cover
And what would old comics be without old video game advertisements?
Duck, Fabio.
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