Writer – Gil Kane
Artist – Gil Kane
Inker – Wally Wood

Clive Arno and his son are in the lab of one Dr. Stefan Tracy, the father of Clive’s deceased wife and grandfather to his boy. They are currently testing the power coins, those mysterious objects that feature the power of the gods within them to see if they might be used for the betterment of mankind in other various ways. While they do that, Dr. Tracy performs his own experiments and while doing so, things start to go very wrong and he gets sucked into some sort of vortex, pulling him through space and time until he gets to a point where things finally slow down and his body is transformed by the forces around him. Where once he was a normal man, Stacy is now something more, the next evolution of mankind made manifest and with him now something more, he finds that he cares nothing for humanity anymore. Renaming himself Dr. Evil, he heads back to his own time and begins a campaign of terror against the denizens of Earth as they have outlived their usefulness. Whether it be an earthquake or fire or any other type of natural disaster, Captain Action and Action Boy are there to help and to take care of the matter at hand so that the loss of lives is minimal. As it continues though, the good Captain finds that he needs to stop it at its source and so he goes to Dr. Tracy to see if he might know how to go about it and it is there when the truth is revealed and Dr. Evil makes his presence known. Gil Kane who pens this tale injects a bit of drama into the proceedings as well as a little bit of a twist as Dr. Evil ends up saving Action Boy, his grandson, from certain death and one has to wonder if this will end up being what leads to Evil’s downfall or if it is but the last gasps of his humanity shining through. An additional intriguing occurrence takes place when Captain Action loses a number of the coins leaving him with only a few and Action Boy with one. While they are powerful coins, it definitely limits what Captain Action can and cannot do which should make things interesting going forward. As for Dr. Evil, Captain Action might have gotten his licks in but the villain is not down for the count in the slightest and promises to return. With Kane doing a fine job with the story and the book jam-packed full of action brought ably to life by Kane and Wally Wood, this was yet another very fun issue of Captain Action.

4 out of 5