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Chapter 1
Whatever happened to Captain Eagle?
Page 1
Panel 1
(Top ¼ of page)
Long shot, night, a shadowy castle in the forest (it’s actually castle Frankenstein)
Overhead taking up most of the sky is a flaming meteor. It is changing direction and
flying over the forest. The vague outline of a flying saucer in the flames can be
discerned
Caption:
Darmstadt Germany, 1933
Panel 2
(Panel 2 and 3 take up the middle 1/3 of the page)
The saucer has landed in the forest. There are several aliens that have come out of it,
some in the foreground some in the background. (The aliens are insect-like. 4 antlike
legs set between a mantis-like upright torso and a rounded bulbous abdomen. They
have conical heads rounded at the top almond shaped eyes no nose and no mouth to
proboscis at the bottom of their heads (where a chin would be on a human) A couple of
them are setting up odd looking equipment. In the doorway of the saucer 3 shadows of
figures are exiting the ship and ready to come down the ramp.
Caption:
It was a turbulent time in the world when the Spidoc Empire first took interest
in earth.
Panel 3
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Move in closer to the doorway the shadowed figures are two aliens holding up a third.
The third alien has a humanoid shape two human like legs no bulbous abdomen. He
has the beginning of a human mouth and a slight bump that could be forming into a
nose He is having trouble standing so the others are holding him.
Caption:
They sent their agents and drew their plans.
Panel 4-7
(Bottom ¼ of page)
The aliens align the equipment up the project light rays on the humanoid alien.
They turn it on causing his form to shimmer and change shape into a human being.
(Model: A young Lee Van Cleef)
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Page 2
(Panel 1,2 and 3 take up the top ¼ of the page)
Panel 1
One of the 6-limbed aliens is producing papers and documentation (maybe human
clothing too) from a hand held machine and handing it to the human looking alien.
Panel 2
Close up of the papers the name: Kerner, Alexander Ian
Panel 3
The humanoid alien is shaking hands with Adolf Hitler.
Panel 4
Inside the castle in a hallway with stonewalls. There is a fortified metal door with a
sign on it. A Nazi guard is standing by the door. Next to him is a nondescript wooden
desk it looks out of place in this setting. There is a typewriter and several stacks of
papers. Behind the desk is an SS officer.
Panel 5
Close up of a door on the door is a sign the sign says: Eintrag verboten
Panel 6
Inside the “verboten” room. The walls are stone the room has been made into an
impromptu hospital lab. Kerner is standing over a patient strapped to a hospital bed
the man is look at Kerner in terror. He is cut open from neck to groin. On the other
side of the bed is Dr Joseph Mengela.
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Panel 1
A horribly deformed man is naked on his knees. A Nazi soldier is shooting him in the
back of the head.
Panel 2
An only slightly deformed extremely muscular man is in the same position he is also
being executed. There are numbers tattooed on his arm.
Panel 3
A Nazi soldier is burning a pile of human bodies in a pit with a flamethrower.
Panel 4
A large overly muscular naked man is fighting a group of Nazi soldiers. One soldier is
standing back shooting at him with a machine gun the bullets are causing only minor
damage penetrating and causing him to bleed but not killing him.
Panel 5
Other men with machine guns are flanking the giant and shooting. He is down on his
hands and knees trying to grab the first machine gunner. He is covered in blood.
Panel 6
Close up of the first gunner he is terrified. The giant’s hand is around his neck. The
tattooed numbers are clearly visible on the giant s arm.
Panel 7
The giant is finally succumbing to his injuries. He is releasing his grip on the soldier
and falling to the ground. The soldiers are relieved.
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Page 4
Panel 1
A shirtless Aryan man is standing arms akimbo and smiling a hail of bullets is
bouncing off of his chest.
Caption:
In 1939 they made their first success
Panel 2
In the foreground champagne glasses are being clinked together. In the
background the Aryan superman is bending a steel bar.
Panel 3
In a movie theater front view of the screen a black and white propaganda film is
being shown. In the film four superhuman Nazi’s are attacking a group of enemy
soldiers. One of them is a bald man flying and shooting lightning from his fingertips.
Another is a woman with a spear through which she is channeling a beam of flame,
another is large man who is picking up a tank over his head (action comics #1) and the
fourth is a tall thin dark haired man with a van dyke beard. He is pointing at a huge
boulder that is floating in the air in front of him and about to strike at the enemy
soldiers.
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Page 5
Panel 1
The same footage is now on a screen behind a young Walter Cronkite (circa 1969)
All is in black and white.
Caption:
Lakeview Oregon, 1969
Caption:
They’re running that “you were there” episode about the superheroes again.
Fourth time this month.
Cronkite:
“And in the summer of 1940 the Nazi regime revealed their grand secret
weapon: a quartet of superhumanly powerful soldiers called the Uberkrieger.
Striking a devastating blow to the moral of allied soldiers in the
Field. Many were left to wonder if perhaps the Nazi propaganda were true and
the world were destined to be ruled by a German Master race.
Panel 2
Pulling out we can see Cronkite is on a small black and white TV. In the
foreground is the of socked feet of the person watching the television. Behind Cronkite
is a picture of brightly costumed masked men. Each mans costume is fashioned to
represent an allied country: England, France, Russia, America,
(America: Captain Glory and Minuteman, Russia: The Proletariat, and Red Star, France
Fleur du lis and Partisan, England: Bulldog and Redcoat)
Caption:
I’ve watched it each time, it’s a good show, but a small paranoid part of me can’t
help but think that it’s just an attempt to make us associate the noble heroes of
World War to with Viet Nam
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Cronkite:
In response the governments of the world joined together with select members
of the Hollywood establishment to perpetuate a desperate ploy to fan the fading
moral of the brave fighters in Europe. Project Mythos
Panel 3:
Close up of a young man (Trevor Allan, age 20. He has long light brown hair
parted to the side and a freckled face He is wearing a wide collared shirt and a white
vest) he is sitting up on a bed. He is lit by the glow of the TV by in front of him at the
end of the bed. He is lighting a bong. Trevor’s apartment (not everything has to be
shown just get the character) is a studio with a one doorway to the small kitchen and
one to the bathroom. There is a large picture window, the paint on the windowsill is
chipping there is an old radiator under the window. The floor is littered with comic
books and magazines mostly to do with superheroes. There are no bed just two
stacked mattresses on the floor Trevor is on the “bed” taking a bong hit. There is an old
black and white TV at the end of the bed. Mike Bern (age 20 long black Hair parted in
the middle. He is wearing a wide collared shirt and bellbottom jeans) is sitting in a
kitchen chair next to the bed
I’m eligible for the draft now
TV:
Using actors stuntmen and Hollywood trickery the men of Mythos created the
illusion that supermen were not exclusive to the Nazis it was a strategy while
absolutely necessary was also doomed to eventual failure were it not
For one fortuitous event…
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Page 6
Panel 1
Trevor is handing the bong to Mike
Caption:
Mike’s number came up last week. He has to report on Monday.
Mike:
See man I told you all the Ubers are fake.
Trevor:
Dude, They’re not fake. They were faked at first to trick the Nazis it’s like that
thing they did with the balloon tanks and shit.
Panel 2
Mike is taking a hit.
Mike:
Balloon tanks? Man, you’re way high.
Trevor:
No it was called Operation Fortitude the made fake tanks so the Germans
wouldn’t know we were attacking Normandy.
Panel 3
Close up of mike looking incredulous
Mike:
Did that really happen man?
Cronkite (on TV):
… The Nazi superhuman program was crippled by the defection of it’s the chief
scientist, Doctor Alexander Kerner in 1941. Doctor Kerner promptly created
the American superhuman program Project H.E.R.A.
Panel 4
Close up of Trevor. His eyes are half closed.
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Trevor:
What? Oh yeah man, I heard the guy had like a Jewish girlfriend so he left
Germany
Mike:
What are you talking about man?
Cronkite:
The first result being the Captain Timothy Spencer…
Panel 5
Close up of the TV, on the screen is footage of a battle scene in the European
theater a costumed man is leading a platoon of American soldiers in a charge.
Cronkite:
…Better known to the world as Captain Eagle.
Trevor:
Alex Kerner the guy that created the Ubers.
Mike:
What’s that got to do with balloon tanks?
Trevor:
Huh?
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Page 7
Panel 1
Close up of the TV. On the screen is the Manhattan skyline it is daylight but the
moon is out in the background, floating in the sky, almost the size of the moon, is
Arishial a gigantic rhombus shaped entity with two jagged pointed stalks sticking up
from either side of the axis of the rhombus, and an elliptical gem in the center of it’s
body the television is surrounded by wafts of smoke.
Caption:
So this weekend we’re driving up to Nevada. Mike wanted to go to Las Vegas
but I convinced him Olympus Rock would be better, less crowded for one thing
plus we can go to the Legends museum.
Mike:
Dude is that Cronkite show still on?
Panel 2
Mike and Trevor are half lying half sitting on the bed propped up by the wall
There are chips and salsa between them. They are very stoned.
Caption:
He won’t necessarily admit it but he’s still just as much into Ubers as I am.
Trevor:
No I think this is a different show.
Panel 3
Both are looking at the image on the screen.
Caption:
Still I think the main reason he’s going is because of the legal hookers. Can’t
really fault him for that, after all, this time nest year he’ll be in Nam. Maybe I will
be too.
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Mike:
I bet that big alien was a balloon too.
Panel 4
Move in on their faces they are stifling laughter.
Both:
pffft
Panel 4
They are laughing out of control
Both:
Hahahahahahahahahah
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Page 8
Panel 1
Overhead shot of the room Mike and Trevor are still on the bed all the chips
have been eaten.
Trevor:
Hey man we’re gonna hafta sober up if we’re gonna drive out tonight.
TV:
Conspiracy theories still abound after last year’s tragic string of slayings of
prominent figures of American history.
Panel 2
Close up of the TV. The photograph of martin Luther king’s assassination is
being shown (the one were all the people are pointing to were the shots came from.)
TV:
First the slaying of civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King on April 4th
Panel 3
The TV is now showing a picture of an apartment shot from overhead from the
walkway on the next level the body of a Caucasian man with short blonde hair is on the
floor a puddle of blood has formed by the head. Further in the apartment in the
shower is the body of a black man.
TV:
Then that of Timothy Ryan Spencer better known as Captain Eagle the
costumed hero of World War II resurrected from a seeming death in 1962 and
brought low again six years later on may 5th
Panel 4
The TV shows a still shot of the Robert Kennedy assassination.
TV:
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And again one-month later presidential candidate Robert Kennedy gunned
down at the Ambassador hotel on June 6th
Panel 5
Pull out to show the room again
Mike:
Don’t worry man, I drive better stoned.
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Page 9
Panel 1
Overhead shot of a corpse on a slab there is a bullet hole in his forehead. (The corpse is
Tim Spencer: Capt Eagle). There are shadows of human figures standing over the body
Caption:
Olympus, Nevada military hospital: morgue…
Panel 2
Side view. A man in a lab coat is talking into a microphone. Tim (captain eagle)
is behind him.
Scientist:
Day 360, 8:50 pm. Subject Eagle has shown increasing signs of life. Heartbeat
has increased to one beat per day. Blood has shown signs of liquidity. Estimate time of
resurrection to be roughly two to three weeks.
Panel 3
Close up of the bullet wound it is smaller.
Lab assistant:
Dr. Tyne we got another heart beat.
Panel 4
Dr Tyne is taking Tim’s pulse. The assistant is looking at Tim with amazement.
Dr Tyne:
What? This is amazing that’s a 50% increase from yesterday. We’re going to
have to revise our estimates.
Panel 5
Close up of his hand twitching,
Assistant:
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(Off panel) Do you think it has to do with the fact that it’s the second time
doctor?
Panel 6
Close up of Tim’s eyes they are partially open
Dr. Tyne:
That could very well be. I’ll have to admit to Stanis that he was right.
Panel 7
The eyes are fully open.
Assistant:
Sounds like a fate worse than death doctor.
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Page 10
Panel 1
Long shot full view of the room. Tim is sitting up. Dr. Tyne and his assistant are
both jumping back in shock.
Assistant:
Doctor he’s alive!
Panel 2
Tim has gotten off the slab he is standing unsteadily and hunched over.
Both the doctor and the assistant are frozen in place
Panel 3
Medium shot of Doctor Tyne. He is holding his hands out in a gesture of peace.
Behind him his assistant is filling a hypodermic needle.
Tyne:
Mr. Spencer, p-please remain calm you were injured and in a coma. If you c-
could return to your bed.
Panel 4
Same scene only through Tim’s eyes. Everything is slightly distorted and lit by
harsh light from above. Making the doctor and his nurse into shadowy figures.
Dr Tyne:
Msrr pu Pu ca ca ca ca rr rr
Panel 5
Tim is attacking the doctor hitting him in the face with his elbow.
Panel 6
Tim is backhanding the assistant knocking her sideways.
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Page 11
Panel 1
Tim is in the foreground crouched tense ready for action. In the background at
the end of a hall way are two guards in silhouette
Panel 2
Mid-shot front view of the guards. They are smoking cigarettes, bored,
oblivious to the shadowed figure of Tim sneaking up behind them.
Panel 3
Mid-shot Tim is knocking both guards heads together.
Panel 4
Close-up Tim’s bare feet stepping over the two unconscious guards.
Panel 5
Full shot Tim is putting on one of the guard’s uniforms in the background we
can see one of the guards is stripped down to his underwear.
Panel 6
Tim is running past a plate glass window on the other side of the glass is a
woman in a lab coat. She is dressed in sixties conservative fashion. She is reacting to
Tim running by.
Panel 7
Close up The woman is on the phone
Woman:
Get me Stanis…Sir you were right sir Eagle just ran by my station. Yes right out
of the morgue. I don’t know sir,
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Panel 8
Tim is smashing through a window, escaping to the outside.
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Page 12
Panel 1
Mikes car (a 56 Chevy candy apple red) viewed from behind is coming up over a
hill in the foreground. In the background is the city of Olympus Rock. It is night and
the city lights are illuminating the empty space of desert it sits in. at the gate of the city
are two twin buildings similar to the Chrysler building. In the distance is a large mesa
surrounded by a fortified wall.
Caption:
Olympus Rock, Nevada
Panel 2
Mike is in the driver’s seat taking a hit off a joint.
Mike:
See man I told you I’d get you here in one piece. You worry too much.
Panel 3
Trevor is looking out the window at the moon silhouetting the city.
Trevor:
You know the moon landing’s tomorrow. I hope we can find a TV when we get
into town.
Mike
Ah man you know that’s gonna be fake, right? I hear they got Stanley Kubrick to
do use the special effect that he used in that 2001 movie to fake a moon landing too.
Panel 4
Trevor is looking at Mike. He is a little annoyed, a little sad.
Trevor:
I think I’ll watch anyway.
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Page13
(9panel grid) Panel 1
A grimy city street, in the foreground is a silhouetted figure viewed from behind
leaning hunched over one hand outstretched to lean against a building. (It’s Tim
Spencer) In the background we can see the twin towers at the city gateway. Everything
is heavily shadowed
Caption (hand written):
War journal, date unknown: I’ve been shot, it was 1968 I think the bullet is still
in my head. So much pain hard to think.
Panel 2
Close up of Tim’s face he is turning around frightened.
Off panel voice:
Hey buddy you ok?
Panel 3
Tim is leaping up to a fire escape. Below him a man is standing dumbstruck by
the feat.
Man:
Whoa
Panel 4
Tim is climbing up the side of the fire escape. He’s not taking the steps he’s
leaping up the sides.
Man:
Holey shit he must be a fucking uber.
Panel 5
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Tim is climbing on the roof of the building. The top of the building is ringed with
Christmas lights in fact every building has Christmas lights up but only on the roof.
(This was because of the moon landing. People were lighting the way home for the
astronauts)
Caption:
Christmas lights? It’s too hot to be winter. The last time this happened I laid in a
coma for 20 years how long this time? What kind of future am I in?
Panel 6
Close up Tim has his head in his hands
Caption:
I was shot…Bill was shot…he must be dead, he’s not like me, he can’t survive
that.
Panel 7
Close up of Tim’s eye.
Caption:
Oh god, do they know?
Panel 8
Tim is hunched over in pain he is clawing at his forehead.
Caption:
Got to find help…can’t trust…Jesus the pain!
Panel 9
Camera moves around for frontal view of Tim. His teeth are gritted. He is
standing up a little less hunched.
Caption
Have to figure out where I am…when I am…find allies if I can. On your feet
soldier there’s work to do.
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Page 14
Panel 1
Inside a casino there is a circle of people all looking up at a three TV screens
placed in a triangle around the room.
TV:
That’s one small step for man one giant leap for mankind.
Panel 2
The crowd is cheering hands in the air clapping
Crowd:
Woooh
Panel 3
Mike and Trevor are walking out of the casino
Mike:
I’m telling you man that was all effects like that balloon tank thing you were
talking about, or the fake superheroes in world war two, and that big alien that was
gonna like destroy the world when we were in high school.
Trevor:
Ah come on man you don’t even believe that Arishiel was real? How could they
have faked that? You could see it all over the world.
Panel 4
Move in closer on mike
Mike:
It was a hologram dude.
Panel 5
The guys are turning into an alley if there’s
Trevor:
You’re jiving right?
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Mike:
No man that’s how the man’s gonna keep us in line. You know make us all think
we’re Buck Rogers so we don’t think about things like the war we’re losing in Nam or
the economy or the Russians having the bomb.
Panel 6
Mike and Trevor are at their hotel opening the door to go in.
Trevor:
You see mike your problem is you’re too pessimistic. We’re on the frontier of
the new age flying cars, jet packs, and superpowers living in space.
Mike:
Yeah right and we’re only 15 years away from 1984.
Trevor:
Dude your hopeless
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Page 15
Panel 1
Mike and Trevor are in the hotel room mike is on the phone. Trevor is on the
couch. Mike is in the foreground. Trevor is in the background.
Mike:
So you can come right over? Awesome. Yeah it’s room 22.
Panel 2
Mike is off the phone now. He is pumping his fist in triumph. Trevor is in the
foreground now.
Mike:
They’re sending two girls over dude. Just like that. I told you Nevada is
awesome.
Trevor:
You sure this is a good idea. Mike?
Panel 3
Close up of Mike. He is cocking his head in disappointment.
Mike:
C’mon man don’t be a square. It’s all legal and shit here so it’s like all regulated
and clean.
Trevor:
Yeah but…
Mike:
Seriously, these girls are professionals. They probably know shit we’ve never
heard of. You gotta develop your sense of adventure dude.
Panel 4
Mike and Trevor are sitting on the couch smoking a joint and looking at the
door
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Panel 5
Same as panel 4
FX
Knock knock
Panel 6
Mike is opening the door. In the doorway are the two prostitutes. One is mulatto
late 20’s early thirties the other is a very young blonde. In the background leaning
against a car in the parking lot is a menacing looking man smoking a cigar.
Starr (the mulatto girl):
Hi baby. I’m Starr and this is Cherry you are you Mike Trevor?
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Page 16
Panel 1
Interior of the hotel room mike is leading the girls in Trevor is standing up
nervously.
Mike:
Come on in girls. Starr, Cherry, this is my friend Trevor. Why don’t you keep him
company Cherry? He’s a bit shy.
Panel 2
Cherry is putting her arm around Trevor’s neck.
Cherry:
Um I think we can fix that.
Panel 3
In the bedroom Trevor is on the bed. Cherry is standing at the foot of the bed
topless; she is looking down and unbuttoning her pants.
Panel 4
Close up of Cherry’s face.
Panel 5
Close up of Trevor’s eyes.
Trevor:
You look familiar
Panel 6
Close up of Cherry’s face she is distressed, smiling nervously.
Cherry:
I guess I have one of those faces.
Panel 7
Trevor is standing up in front of Cherry.
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Trevor:
No wait I do know you. Oh my god! You’re Linda Massa’s little sister Michelle.
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Page 17
Panel 1
Close up of Cherry she is pleading.
Cherry
You won’t tell anybody will you?
Panel2
Close up of Trevor
Trevor:
Um no don’t worry. I got your back. But what happened last I heard of you and…
Cherry/ Michelle
I can’t talk about any of that.
Panel 3
They are sitting on the bed facing each other.
Trevor:
Oh my go I just realized. You’re only 15.
Panel 4
Close up of Michelle’s eyes. She is scared.
Cherry/ Michelle
Shhh. you’re going to get me in trouble C’mon Trevor let’s just have our date
you know I’ve always had a crush on you, we could…
Trevor:
No. Listen, I understand. I don’t need to hear the story you got in over your head
they can’t make you do this. You’re a minor.
Panel 5
Trevor is looking up like he just remembered something.
Trevor
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Your cousin Sandra! She still lives in Oregon. Come back with us and you can
stay with her. Or if not that Mike or I could put you up for a while.
Panel 6
Michelle/ Cherry is crying.
Cherry/ Michelle
Stop it! I can’t leave. I have to go back I have to give Sam the money or…
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Page 18
Panel1
Trevor and Michelle/Cherry are hugging on the bed.
Trevor:
Panel 2
Mike is handing money to the menacing man by the car. It is day now.
Caption:
“We’ll pay for you for a day, hang out together till evening and head back to
Oregon and you can leave this whole life behind you.
Panel 3
Wide shot. Mike Trevor and Michelle/ Cherry are in the crowd going into a
museum. “ Modern Museum of Legend ”
Panel 4
Trevor is feeding Michelle/Cherry cotton candy and smiling. Mike is looking
around bored and irritated.
Panel 5
Mike is rolling his eyes. Trevor and Michelle/Cherry are holding arms and
spinning around.
Panel 6
Long shot in the foreground all three are standing together in the background.
The sun is going down over the Olympus mesa.
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Page 19
Panel 1
Al three are walking along Michelle/Cherry is pointing to the bathroom.
Panel 2
Mike and Trevor are waiting by the bathroom. Michelle/Cherry is slipping out
the back.
Panel 3
Mike and Trevor are still waiting. The crowd is gone it is night.
Panel 4
Mike and Trevor are looking for Michelle/Cherry in the calling out to her.
Panel5
Mike and Trevor are walking together backs to the reader. Trevor is slouched in
despair.
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Page 20
Panel 1
Tim is coming out of one of the casinos along with the crowd.
Caption:
The moon landing. That means it’s only been a year. I can work with that.
Panel 2
A black sedan is driving by; there are four men in suits in the car. They are
looking at Tim.
Caption:
I can think more clearly now. My captors must have removed the bullet while I
was in their care. Less pain now that my healing factors kicking in. I’m sure I’ve
lost memory don’t know who to trust.
Panel 3
Tim has noticed the sedan.
Panel 4
The car has stopped on of the agents is getting out.
Agent
Captain Spencer, please come with us.
Panel 5
Tim is running away
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Page 21
Panel 1-6 (could probably extend this out another page)
Chase scene: Tim running from the guys in the car, jumping over fences and
cars and walls. It ends up with Tim running into the dessert the car is blocked by a
brick wall.
Panel 7-8
The agents blocked by the wall are frustrated. One hitting the hood of the car.
Another one is talking on the car radio.
Agent
Base this is Hamm, we’ve spotted eagle. He’s running north into the dessert just
off Kirby. We’re blocked off and we’ll have to go around. Get a chopper out there
and see if you can spot him for us.
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Page 22
Panel 1
Mike and Trevor are getting in Mike’s car. Trevor on the driver’s side.
Mike
Don’t beat yourself up about it man. You tried to do a good thing. You just can’t
make peoples choices for them.
Panel 2
Interior of the car.
Trevor:
I just feel so stupid and naïve. I mean what was I thinking.
Mike:
Well yeah it was stupid and naïve but you gave her a chance and I don’t know I
think that’s good like karma wise y’know
Panel 3
Tim is running in the dessert a trail of dust is kicking up behind him
Panel 4
Mike’s car is driving down he road kicking up dust as well.
Panel 5
The black sedan is coming out of the city.
Panel 6
Agent Hamm on the car radio.
Hamm
Keep the chopper looking we’ll see if we can’t pick him up on the road. He might
try to get a ride or something.
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Chapter 1
Whatever happened to Captain Eagle? Part 2
Page 1
Panel 1
Mike’s car is coming up over a hill.
Caption:
Oregon Nevada border
Trevor, and Mike:
Viva Las Vegas!
Panel 2
Tim is jumping behind a sand dune just ahead of the searchlights of a military
helicopter.
Panel 3
Inside Mike’s car they are passing a joint. Trevor is driving.
Radio:
We can’t go on together with suspicious eyes,
Panel 4
Tim is running in front of the headlights of Mike’s car. Almost forcing the car off
the road.
Lester:
Oh shit
Panel 5
The helicopter is passing over the car.
Panel 6
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Inside the car, both guys are looking up panicking. The searchlight is throwing
shadows across their faces.
All:
AAAAAAHH!
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Page 2
Panel 1
Close up of Trevor’s face his expression is sheer panic.
Trevor
Oh my fucking god it’s the cops, oh fuck, we are so fucking fucked.
Panel 2
Close up of the glove compartment. There is a plastic bag filled with pills inside
Trevor’s hand is reaching for the bag.
Trevor:
Mike quick I need you to eat these!
Panel 3
Mid-shot of mike, his cheeks are puffed out. His eyes are wide open. He has the
baggie in front of his face. He is shoving pills in his mouth Lester is helping.
Trevor:
Hurry man. Before the chopper comes back.
Mike:
Mrmph
Panel 4
Outside long shot of the car.
Trevor:
We should find a place to stop we shouldn’t get caught driving man.
Panel 5
The car is pulling up to a theme restaurant that is shaped like a big flying
saucer.
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Page 3
Panel 1
The restaurant has a 50s sci-fi look to it. A lot of chrome. The waitresses wear
silver mini skirts with triangular epaulettes; Trevor and mike are going into the
restaurant. Trevor is acting relatively normal although he is of course high. Mike is
floating two feet off the ground leaning slightly forward. Little bubbles are flying and
popping around his head. His expression is pure bliss.
Panel 2
They are sitting at a table facing the camera Mike is smiling stupidly bubbles
still floating around his head. Trevor is looking at the menu with excitement.
Trevor:
Oh mannn! Blue planet Blueberry pancakes I want that. Oooh, and with the
whip cream.
Mike:
Blu ma kerflu gmat
Panel 3
Mid-shot of the waitress, she is wearing a solid silver mini-dress with a clear
plastic belt she has tin foil antennae. She is writing the order in a cheesily futuristic
pad with a similar pen (think Jetsons)
Waitress:
One blue, one coffee and toast and one…what was that he said?
Trevor:
Don’t worry about it. I’m sure whatever you put in front of him he’ll eat.
Waitress how bout the space burger combo?
Trevor:
That’ll work.
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Panel 4
Outside on a hill overlooking the restaurant Tim is crouching behind a bush
looking at the restaurant. His clothes are torn and there are cuts on his arms and legs
Panel 5
Long shot silhouetted. Tim is sneaking into the parking lot.
Panel 6
Tim is getting into the trunk of Mike’s car.
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Page 4
Panel 1
A black sedan is pulling into the parking lot of the restaurant the only other car
is Mike’s
Panel 2
Four men are getting out of the car they are all in suits.
Panel3
Mike and Trevor are sitting in the restaurant. They are all smiling. Mike
especially.
Panel 4
Trevor is noticing the four guys in suits coming into the restaurant. His eyes are
wide open in fear.
Panel 5
Trevor is telling mike he also worried.
Trevor:
Dude I think those are the cops from the helicopter.
We have to get out of here. And we have to be super inconspicuous…casual.
Panel 6
The guys are leaving the restaurant walking right past the four men. They
couldn’t be less casual. Trevor is pulling mike along who although he’s not actually
floating now is still pretty out of it. The four men are looking at them with suspicion.
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Page 5
Panel 1
In the parking lot. Mike and Trevor are coming out of the restaurant.
Mike:
Where did they park the helicopter?
Panel 2
The men in suits are sitting at their table laughing.
Man1:
You know we should have just busted those guys for the fun of it.
Man 2:
It would be better than letting them drive like that.
Panel 3
Close up one of the men is coming to a realization.
Man:
Crap!
Other man (off panel)
What?
Man:
He could be hiding in their car.
Panel 5
All the men in suits are rushing out the door
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Page 6
Panel1
Overhead shot of the highway and Mike’s car. The black sedan is several car
lengths behind them.
Panel2
The sedan is closer.
Panel 3
The sedan is running Mike’s car off of the road.
Panel 4
Interior of Mike’s car front view slightly tilted the guys are all screaming
All:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Panel 5
Mike’s car is off the road crashed into a tree.
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Page 7
Panel 1
The guys are getting out of the car up on the ridge on the road is the black sedan
the agents are coming down the hill there is about 15 feet between the agents
and the guys
Trevor:
What the hell is wrong with you people? You can’t just run people off the road
like that
Mike:
Yeah I know my rights you got nothing…
Panel 2
Medium shot all the agents have pulled out guns and are aiming them at the
reader.
Mike:
…On us.
Panel 3
Move in closer to one of the agents. He has a slight smile.
Agent:
Yeah, we were thinking we’d have a look in your trunk. I’m sure you don’t mind
now.
Panel 4
Close up of the guys they are just standing there with their mouths open.
Agent:
That’s kind of what I thought.
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Panel 5
Two of the agents are behind the car getting ready to open the trunk. One of the
other agent is covering the guys and the other is standing back from the car
pointing his gun at the trunk.
Panel 6
View from inside the trunk it is opening. We can see the mid section of the two
agents.
Panel 7
Tim is leaping out of the trunk and punching the first agent.
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Page 8
Panel 1
Bracing with both hands on the back of the trunk. Tim is kicking the second
agent in the face. The other agent is falling to Tim’s left, away from the reader.
Panel 2
The agent who was standing back shoots Tim. (he gets shot a few times here.
you can show the impact but not blood they are tranquilizers)
FX:
Putt
Panel 3
The agent who was guarding the guys shoots Tim too.
FX:
Putt
Panel 4
Tim is moving toward the first guy that shot him
FX:
Putt putt putt
Panel 4
Tim has dropped to one knee. He is reaching toward the agent.
Panel 5
Tim is falling on his face
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Page 9
Panel 1
In the foreground Trevor and mike have their backs to the reader. They are
backing away from the scene, frightened. The agent who has just shot Tim is turning
toward them.
Panel 2
Mike is running away
Mike:
Trevor run!
Panel 3
The agent is shooting Mike in the back.
Panel 4
The agent is walking toward Trevor Mike is lying on the ground.
Panel 5
Trevor’ POV the gun is pointed at the reader foreshortening makes the barrel
larger than the agent.
Panel 6
Same as panel 5 only the agent is smiling
Panel 7
The gun is firing; the explosion from the barrel is taking up most of the panel
Panel 8
All black
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Page10
Panel 1
A bright round glowing light surrounded by dark
Panel 2
The same light is behind three human figures in silhouette.
Shadow figure:
You are in a spaceship, you cannot move. We are aliens I am telling you not to
be afraid but you are.
Panel 3
Close up of Trevor. He is confused.
Trevor
What are you talking about? You aren’t aliens. This isn’t a spaceship.
Panel 4
The shadow figures are looking at each other.
Shadow figure:
It’s not working.
Panel 5
Other shadow figure:
Alright sedate him and we’ll try something else.
Panel 6
All black
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Page 11
Panel 1
Trevor is waking up on a couch in an office. Tim is sitting at the desk.
Tim:
Oh good you’re awake.
Panel 2
Trevor is sitting up and holding his forehead.
Trevor:
What happened?
Panel 3
Medium shot of Trevor he is putting his hand on his chest his expression is one
of surprise.
Trevor:
I was shot. That guy shot me.
Panel 4
Close up of Tim.
Tim
Tranquilizer darts, it’s what they shot me with too.
Panel 5
Side view Trevor on the couch looking at Tim. Tim still at the desk.
Trevor
You were the guy in my trunk. Why were you in my trunk?
Tim
Long story
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Page 12
Panel 1
Trevor is pointing at Tim.
Trevor
Hey I know you. I’ve seen you on the news you’re Tim Spencer, Captain Eagle.
Panel 2
Tim is smiling
Tim:
Nice to know I’m not forgotten. I’m surprised you recognize me though I usually
wore my mask on TV.
Panel 3
Pull out to show the room. It’s a nice office but Spartan. Wood desk, leather
couch, typewriter and phone on the desk (remember it’s 1969 so make sure they’re
period appropriate)
Trevor
They released your picture the time everyone thought you were dead. Which
brings up my next question. Didn’t you get killed last year?
Tim
I got better.
Trevor
No way I saw the body on TV. Are you telling me that was another fake out?
Panel 4
Tim is scratching his chin
Tim
No, it wasn’t a fake out. Actually the first time wasn’t either. I really was shot.
That really was my body you saw on the news. But I didn’t really die. When I get
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wounded that badly my body just goes into a kind of coma until my special
healing factor can kick in. I guess it took about a year this time.
Panel 5
Close up of Trevor
Trevor
So you’re…immortal
Panel 6
Close up of Tim. He is looking down. Clearly disturbed by this thought.
Tim
No…I don’t think so…I’m just really hard to kill.
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Page 13
Panel 1
Close up of Trevor’s hands.
Trevor
So are we prisoners here, or something?
Panel 2
Close up of Tim
Tim:
No, the people that shot us well actually we work for the same group. They
came after me cause I was…confused. The bullet in my head took some memory
with it I didn’t know where I was I was running on instinct.
Panel 3
Side view of the room Tim and Trevor are in the same positions.
Trevor:
Where’s Mike? Is he okay?
Tim:
Yes, he’s fine. He believed the cover story.
Trevor:
Cover story?
Panel 4
Close up of Tim
Tim:
Yes it’s pretty much standard in these cases to use hypnoses convince people
They saw a u.f.o.
Panel 5
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Back to Trevor
Trevor:
That’s what that weird bit with the soldier saying I was on a space ship.
Tim:
Yes turns out you’re special Trevor you are on of the one out every thousand
people or so that are resistant to hypnotism.
Trevor:
You’re not going to have me killed or something are you?
Panel 6:
Tim is putting his fingers to his forehead.
Tim:
Don’t be ridiculous wouldn’t we have done that already if that were our plan?
Hey are you hungry? There’s a commissary in this building.
Trevor:
Starving actually but that brings up the question: Where exactly am I?
Tim:
You’re at Olympus base.
Panel 5
Close up of Trevor he’s excited.
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Page 14
Panel1
Trevor and Tim are walking down a hallway
Trevor:
So that first time you “died” you were really in a coma?
Tim:
Yeah.
Trevor:
For like 15 years?
Panel 5
The gloved hand of Captain eagle is pounding on a glass window in a coffin the
window is covered in dirt. (He is inside the coffin trying to get out)
Panel 6
Close up of Tim. We are back to present day
Tim:
Give or take.
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Page 15
Panel 1
Full page
Trevor and Tim are walking into the commissary Trevor is amazed there are
several odd people in spandex: Golem an amorphous Glob that barely holds a human
shape (he looks like a person who is melting from the head down) Thunderbolt: a
long haired Native American in a spandex jumper with lightning bolts on it and open to
the navel, Amaza: a very tall, very muscular woman in a two piece spandex uniform.
The Ape: a thick furred man with abnormally long arms and an oversized frontal lobe.
There are several men and women in military uniforms as well as in civilian clothes.
Some are oddly deformed: There is a man with clear skin so you can see his organs.
There are a couple of amphibian humanoids,
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Page 16
Panel 1:
Trevor and Tim are walking through the crowd. Longbow: a man in a green and
brown. Costume similar to something Robin Hood would wear is turning toward them.
Longbow:
My God! Tim! You’re back!
Panel 2:
Longbow is Shaking Tim’s hand vigorously.
Longbow:
I tell ya, I didn’t really believe it until right now. But here you are like fucking
risen Lazarus. And it really is you! Can’t fool me with no robots or clones I know my old
teammate.
Panel 3:
A group of people has formed around Tim and Trevor and Longbow, some in
costumes some in uniforms and some in civilian clothes.
Tim:
Longbow. Please language, that’s no way for a superhero to talk.
Panel 4:
Close up of Longbow he is looking sheepish.
Longbow:
Oh geez, I’m sorry Cap. But I really missed you over the last year.
Panel 5:
Pull out to show the crowd
Manape:
We all did.
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Page 17
Panel 1
Trevor and Tim are sitting at a table Tim is drinking a glass of water. There is a
salad in front of him. Trevor is eating a doughnut.
Trevor:
So 15 years huh? How come you were only out a year this time? Are you
getting better at the resurrection thing?
Tim:
I’d prefer if you didn’t use that term.
Panel 3
Close up of Trevor his eyes are wide open. The doughnut is hanging out of his
mouth.
Trevor:
Oh, uh, yeah, sorry
Panel 4
Captain Eagle (in the 1940’s uniform) is shooting a machine gun at Iron Cross I
(the Nazi superhero) the bullets are bouncing off him and Iron Cross is laughing.
Caption:
“No one knew I could come back.”
Panel 5
Thunderbird is firing explosive arrows at Iron Cross. The explosions are
knocking him back.
Panel 6
Same as panel 5 but Iron cross is starting to recover.
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Page 18
Panel 1
Iron Cross leaps across the distance between him and Thunderbird.
Panel 2
Iron cross backhands Thunderbird sending him sprawling to the ground.
Panel 3
In the background Iron Cross is standing over the body of Thunderbird.
In the foreground the gloved hand of Captain Eagle is grabbing one of the
explosive arrow tips.
Panel 4
Coming from behind Captain Eagle is shoving the arrow tip into Iron
Cross’s mouth.
Panel 5
An explosion is obscuring the view of Iron Cross’s head.
Panel 6
Iron Cross is turning on Captain Eagle his face is horribly mutilated. His
jaw is hanging off. In the foreground Captain Eagle is grapping more explosive
arrows.
Panel 7
Captain Eagle is jamming the arrows into the place where Iron Cross’s
mouth used to be.
Panel 8
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The explosion is throwing Captain eagle and Iron Cross away from each
other ripping through their flesh.
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Page19
Panel 1
Thunderbird is kneeling nest to the mutilated body of Captain Eagle. Iron
cross is lying dead in the background.
Panel 2
Thunderbird is pulling his mask off. (It’s a full face mask) he is a black
man with crew cut hair. Tears are streaming down his face.
Panel 3
Funeral scene, people in military uniforms or black civilian clothes.
There are some costumed people there. Thunderbird is there, in the foreground
are movie reporters taking photographs and movie tone news cameras.
Panel 4:
Inside the coffin Captain eagle is awake.
Panel 5:
Captain eagle is punching through the glass window of his coffin.
Panel 6:
Close up of Captain Eagle’s face being buried in dirt.
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Page 20
Panel 1
Back in the present. Close up of Tim. His expression is haunted.
Tim:
Took me a while to get out of that one.
Panel 2
Close up of Trevor. He has a look of concern.
Panel 3
Pull out. In the background Trevor and Tim are sitting at their table. In
the foreground, off to the side, are Longbow and Amaza sitting at
another table.
Tim:
Alright let me skip to the bottom line for you. I’m putting my own team
together and I’d like you to be a member.
Panel 4
Same scene but the camera has moved closer to Longbow and Amaza’s
table. They are both looking at Tim and Trevor’s table.
Amaza:
So what was that about, Kurt? You never used to cow to Captain Boy
Scout like that.
Longbow:
Leave it alone, Jan
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Page 21
Panel 1
Close up of Amaza
Amaza:
No I’m serious you wouldn’t agree with him if he told you water was wet. why…
Panel 2
Longbow is brooding
Panel 3
Pull out to include Amaza in the shot. Longbow is talking Amaza looks surprised
by what he is saying
Longbow:
He came back form the dead. I was at his funeral I saw the body the bullet hole
in his head.
Panel 4
Switch perspective back to Tim and Trevor’s table Longbow and Amaza are in
the background looking at Tim.
Longbow:
This sounds crazy I know but there is only one other person in history that has
ever done that.
Panel 5
Close up of Amaza and Longbow Amaza’s mouth is open in shock.
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Page 22
Panel 1
This entire page is Trevor and Tim talking so you can do whatever you want to
do with the camera.
Tim:
Let me cut right to it Trevor. I’ve been in a coma for a year and someone put me
there with a bullet. I don’t know whom I can trust. What I need badly are new people
who I know are not part of whatever inner circle it was that decided I would look
better with hole in my head.
H.E.R A’s a big organization there’s a lot of opportunities for a young smart man
like yourself so you want a job?
Trevor:
Are you kidding me? I’m getting an offer to work with forgive me but the first
and I think greatest of all the worlds superheroes and a chance to find out some of the
hidden secrets of the intelligence underworld.
Do I want a job? This job? Yeah since I a was ten.
Tim:
Well then I guess it’s welcome aboard.