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captain saucer #1

Captain Saucer #1 (1982) C.S. is recruited; prevents mad scientist, Head, and his hench-bots, Dwayne & Floppy, from blowing up the universe; meets Polly Phemus and Flexia Bast. Later printings had the first Fanboy strip included. Collected in both the '80s and '90s versions of Captain Saucer Trilogy #1.


Captain Saucer #2 (1982) C.S. chases criminal musclewoman Hercula Vella, (if Flexia isn't already beefy enough), and tedboy, Pius, through space. Later printings included "Plan Nine from the Oval Office" back up story and a different cover. Collected in both the '80s and '90s versions of Captain Saucer Trilogy#1.

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captain saucer #3

Captain Saucer #3 (1982) C.S. takes the day off, saves space Princess Nuclea from a Bug Eyed Monster. Early printings included hand coloring with highlighters. Collected in both the '80s and '90s versions of Captain Saucer Trilogy#1.


Captain Saucer #4 (1983) The Weird Aliens try to turn Earth into a giant theme park and enslave the Earthlings to keep operating costs down. C.S. stops them in a spoof of Fred Brown's Arena (spoofing the fact that story's premise has been overly reworked in many S.F. series). Collected in the Captain Saucer Trilogy#2.

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captain saucer 5

Captain Saucer #5 (1983) Dr. Shades and his sidekick, Shades Girl, use Super-Atomic Zany-Zappers to kidnap Elvis Alien. C.S. drag races them to the farm colony, "New Iowa" circling Alpha Centauri to get Elvis back. Collected in the Captain Saucer Trilogy#2.


Captain Saucer #6 (1983) Experimentation with a more cartoony style as Didi is kidnapped by a rich alien and his deadpan butler; C.S. comes to the rescue. Includes a "Xmas-a-rama" backup with one eyed gift-giver, "Santa Clops". Collected in the Captain Saucer Trilogy #2.

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captain saucer #7

Captain Saucer #7 (1983) C.S. goes on a planet hopping romp to save space babes in distress from deaths worse than fate. After a few failures, he meets up with Nuclea again, being annoyed by "strangest teenage mutant of all", a telekinetic nerd.


Captain Saucer #8 (1984) C.S. hucks for corporate sponsorships until the Weird Aliens return with refrigerator magnet powered gizmos to study and pester Earthlings and learn that the ticking of a pilfered MX warhead can lead to a Joan Miro influenced panel of a really really big explosion.

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captain saucer #9

Captain Saucer #9 (1984) Very politically incorrect barbs at the Moral Majority and Mtv as C.S. flies to the "Gay George" space-station & studio to stop him (?) from perverting youth with his(?) over played, sissy pop songs. Meanwhile, the Alphavillagers guerrilla raid a radio station to get air play.


Captain Saucer #10 (1984) The Bizzroids, after royally annoying the Space Amazons during the wrong time of the month, come to Earth to pester locals with their inverted "dummy copy" jabberings. After the news media wildly exaggerates their threat, C.S. beats them up and chases them off the planet.

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captain saucer #11

Captain Saucer #11 (1985) Experimentation with a more psychedelic and ethereal style as C.S. chases Tuesday Vella (Hercula's cuter little sister) and Pius through outer space. The Ameriman backup strip debuts. Early "psychedelic" printings were on six different colors of paper.


Captain Saucer #12 (1985) Beginning of the Dune movie parody recasting the "Hampkonians" as the industrial Rockin' good guys and the "Freekmen" as hippiesque villains intent on massacring the "Hamps" for not being mellow and peaceful enough, plus those Benny Hill and Jackie Wright inspired mentants....

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captain saucer #13

Captain Saucer #13 (1985) The Dune parody continues as the Freekman rage an all out jihad against the Hampkonians, only to be soundly defeated almost single handedly by the mighty Flexia Bast (quite fetching in her Terminator drag), with a wee bit of help from Captain Saucer and the Hampkonian Military.


Captain Saucer #14 (1985) With the Freekmen out of the way, the Weird Aliens try to take over Hampkonian territory. C.S. stops them with the mysterious space artifact, "The Holy Magneto", which malfunctions and turns the Weird Aliens into small stuffed toys.

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captain saucer #15

Captain Saucer #15 (1986) Those stuffed toys are saturated marketed as "Weird Patch Aliens" during Xmas season with rigged shortages to keep prices and profits high. Not even C.S., Flexia, or Santa Clops can rescue the day. Backup strip: "Alpha Centauri Sunday Funnies" by future Rolling Stone Hot Cartoonist Pat Pat Moriarity.


Captain Saucer #16 (1986) The Weird Aliens try to win by controlling the cartoonist's mind. C.S. gets zapped through a few small press pastiches including "Cynical Saucer". Key-lined color xerography debuts. Back cover Flexia pinup by, Moebius, Marvel, and future ISOD colorist, Geoff Everts.

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captain saucer #17

Captain Saucer #17 (1987) Some sour balls from the New Wave clique at certain repressive Midwestern land grant university (severe extreme injoke) steal Tuesday's and Pius's saucer and go on to pirate a large Leian (Flexia's race) freight saucer. Includes the inverted cliche of an alien cutey menaced by nasty Earthlings.


Captain Saucer #18 (1987) C.S. gets saved, the sour balls get theirs, Flexia gets redesigned, and Elvis fixes an airlock leak with a patch made of cherry bubble gum and boogers. The first C.S. to bear the United Fanzine Organization (UFO) seal. Back up story: the ultimate fight between Ameriman and Kung Fu Elvis.

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captain saucer #19

Captain Saucer #19 (1987) C.S., Head, and Clan the Dragonman are on a Firing Line spoof (reaction to all the Letterman spoofs in the fan and pro comics of the time). This leads to a fire fight and a game of cat and mouse in the Asteroid Belt between Clan and C.S. Sort of a rehearsal for InterStellar OverDrive and the first glimpse of Cseworld.


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Captain Saucer #20 (1989) The series, and the '80s, are closed out in an episode that experimented with a more sparse style of story telling, and was based on a dream about C.S. fighting a cybernetic Clan. Also Flexia fights an early version of her evil identical cousin, Pex.

captain saucer #20

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