Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Captain Civilian (aka the museum's Learning Officer Steve Marchant) fought for justice on the mean streets of Plymouth in the 1980s. He came out of retirement for our 2024 exhibition HEROES: The British invasion of American Comics to talk about the reality of being a costumed hero...

To learn more about his story you can buy issues 1 & 2 of his comics from the museum's shop here: tinyurl.com/mu43rhkm and here: tinyurl.com/3fdjapnd