About Captain Fandom

I grew up in a world where reruns felt like treasure maps.

I watched Star Trek with my dad. I rushed home after school to watch Speed Racer, Batman, The Green Hornet, Ultraman, and the Spider-Man cartoon — whenever I could find them. Later came The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, Knight Rider, and countless other shows that made the world seem bigger, stranger, more dangerous, and more exciting than the one outside my front door.

I read comics voraciously and discovered pulp heroes like Doc Savage and The Shadow. I was there when Judge Dredd was first reprinted in America, and magazines like Starlog, Dragon, Comics Scene, and Wizard became windows into whole worlds of fandom I wanted to know more about.

My toy box was just as important.

I played with Mego superheroes and Micronauts. I inherited 12-inch G.I. Joes from my older cousins and later bought the 3.75-inch figures when they exploded onto shelves in the 1980s. I saw the first Star Wars in theaters and still remember the thrill of buying my first Star Wars toys, when that galaxy suddenly became something I could hold in my hands.

As I got older, fandom never went away. It just expanded.

I watched Elvira introduce late-night horror and laughed my way through Mystery Science Theater 3000. I went to conventions, met fellow fans and celebrities, wore costumes, collected, drew, wrote, and spent countless hours talking about the characters, toys, movies, comics, and shows that had shaped me.

Those early obsessions eventually helped point me toward a career in television and visual storytelling. They inspired me to write, to draw, to produce, to podcast, and to keep creating — I even wrote comic books of my own back in the day, and colored covers too.

And now they have led me here.

Captain Fandom is my way of celebrating all of it.

The toys we begged for.
The shows we raced home to watch.
The comics we wore out rereading.
The magazines that made us feel connected to a larger world of fans.
The strange, forgotten, wonderful things that can instantly transport us back decades.

This channel and website are for people who still remember the feeling of discovering something amazing for the first time — and who still get excited when someone says:

“Wait… you remember that too?”

That is what Captain Fandom is really about.

Shared memories. Rediscovery. Conversation. Curiosity. And the joy of talking with fellow fans about the things that made us who we are.

So pull up a chair, open the toy box, dig through the long boxes, fire up the old TV, and let’s see what we remember.

Welcome aboard.