I ran into this two issue mini series from Marvel during one of my journeys through my local comic shop’s dollar bins. It’s an adaptation of the first episode of “Once A Hero” an ABC series that lasted just a single season and is unavailable to stream anywhere that I know of and there are no vhs nor DVDs of it out there. I did find some hilariously bad transfers on youtube, so I did get to watch a small amount of it. The show has some obvious inspirations, the suit is extremely evocative of “The Greatest American Hero” and the premise is one that’s been around as long as people have been writing stories. The comics are much much better than they have any right to be, and handle the topic is more maturity than I would have expected from a tv series adaptation from Marvel.

There’s also a fun gimmick in which Stan Lee writes a small blurb about how Captain Justice was a favorite comic of his back in the 50’s, but that’s all part of the smoke and mirrors of it. He later repeated that same gimmick when The Sentry was brought out of retirement to be written for the first time in the 90’s, so now I wonder how often they went back to that particular well.

Here’s the main theme and title sequence for the show, I’d love to be able to watch the seven episodes that were actually released in a similar quality: