Another seldom-seen character is "Captain Fear", created by Bob Kanigher and Alex Nino, that for a long time only appeared in ADVENTURE COMICS in 1973-1974 across issues 425 and 426 (by Kanigher/Nino), and 427, 429, 432 and 433 (By Skeates/Nino).
Here's the complete first story from
ADVENTURE COMICS 425 (Jan 1973) 8 pages.
And parts 2 and 3 in
ADVENTURE 426 (March 1973)8p and 427 (May 1973)7p .
Here are parts 4, 5 and 6, in
ADVENTURE 429(Oct 1973)7p, 432(Apr 1974)7p and 433 (June 1974)7p
From the last Nino story, in ADVENTURE 433.
The character later saw a brief resurrection in UNKNOWN SOLDIER 254-256 (Aug, Sept, Oct 1981) as a 6-page backup series by Michelinie/ Simonson. All 18 pages reprinted in THE ART OF WALTER SIMONSON collected trade in 1989. Unfortunately the pages for parts 2 and 3 have the pages printed out of order, but still with better printing than the original.
Here are some sample pages:
http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/wwwt02gallery/There have been some brief cameo-type appearances many years later by others:
SPECTRE (vol 3) issues 40-42 April-June 1996, by Ostrander and Mandrake.
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED (vol 2) issues 1-8, by Azzarello and Cliff Chiang, Dec 2006-July 2007. In the "Dr Thirteen" backup stories, includin Captain Fear with other 1970's characters Dr Thirteen (from Aparo's PHANTOM STRANGER era) and "I, Vampire (from 1980-1982 HOUSE OF MYSTERY series). So this was a pretty crowded story.
Plus a reprisal by Simonson of his earlier series in THE JUDAS COIN (2012).
And a few other forgettable cameos.
In SUPERMAN/BATMAN 75 by Levitz/Ordway(Oct 2010).
And OUTSIDERS (vol 4) issue 26, in March 2010, by Dan Didio and Philip Tan.
The ones I love are the earliest Nino and Simonson stories, that explored the more exciting and paradoxical aspects of the character. There certainly aren't many escaped-slave Carib-indian pirates sailing around the Spanish Colonial seas in comics, in the 1970's or now.
