Public Domain Super Heroes
Captain Dexter Ames

Real Name

Dexter Ames

First Appearance

Planet Comics #6 (June 1940)

Original Publisher

Fiction House

Created by

Lin Davies?

Origin[]

Captain Dexter Ames was the commander of the Earth-ship Discoverer. Doctor Phillips served as his second in command. The crew also included Chief Engineer Morgan, Chief Gunner Hatch and at least 20 others. The crew traveled through both space and time, and several of them were "wiped" from the corrected/new Time-Stream after killing their own ancestors.

Powers and Abilities[]

Dexter Ames was a wise and cunning leader who could speak Latin. Ames and his men were armed with ray guns and armor.

Public Domain Appearances[]

  • Planet Comics #6-8

Notes[]

  • The Dexter Ames text stories sometimes recycled artwork from other stories (such as in issue 7 of Planet Comics used a panel of another character in a different story in issue 6 of Planet Comics).

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