Captain Rectitude
| Captain Rectitude | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Sensational She-Hulk #21 (November 1990) |
| Created by | Steve Gerber and Buzz Dixon |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Bob Jones IV |
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Captain Rectitude is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Fictional character biography[edit]
The man who would become Captain Rectitude was a mild-mannered employee at the savings & loan association of Jasper Keaton, a financial chairman and aspiring politician who made millions of dollars on short-term commercial real-estate investments following the federal government's deregulation of the banking industry. With his ill-gotten fortune, Keaton founded a genetic research program which he used to transform Bob Jones and another employee into the superhuman bodyguards, known as Captain Rectitude and the Abominatrix. Joining Keaton at the Nebuchadnezzar II (his resort casino headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada) Captain Rectitude became a field agent for Keaton's American Purity Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving family values that Keaton founded 22 years ago. As Captain Rectitude set out to wage a war against smut and pornography, Keaton attempted to obtain a nuclear warhead from a Las Vegas gangster to blackmail the U.S. Senate Banking Committee into handing over control of America's savings and loan associations to him.[1] She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) incapacitated Captain Rectitude and the Anominatrix in time to redirect Keaton's warhead into the desert, where it destroyed the Nebuchadnezzar II. Both Captain Rectitude and the Abominatrix were sent to prison.[2]
Captain Rectitude's sentence was shortened for good behavior and he was soon on the streets again, compelled to forcefully oppose all activity that he deemed unwholesome. After the passage of the Registration Act, Captain Rectitude failed to comply with the new superhuman laws and was arrested by NYPD officers outside the Daily Bugle Building.[3]
Powers and abilities[edit]
Jasper Keaton's genetic alterations endowed Captain Rectitude with superhuman strength, durability, speed and stamina. Captain Rectitude also possesses the ability to fly under his own power. His normal biological drives were replaced with a synthetic anti-pornography instinct programmed by Jasper Keaton's scientists, compelling Captain Rectitude to blindly oppose all activity he deems as unwholesome.
Captain Rectitude's costume is composed of bulletproof and fire-resistant aromatic polyamide (aramid) fiber. The circuitry in his chest enables him to project destructive plasma blasts from his heart-shaped emblem at will.
References[edit]
- ↑ Sensational She-Hulk #21-22
- ↑ Sensational She-Hulk #23
- ↑ Civil War: Front Line #6
External links[edit]
- Captain Rectitude at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
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