CAPTAIN TVIDEO

CAPTAIN VIDEO AND HIS VIDEO RANGERS
1949-1955 DUMONT

CAPTAIN TVIDEO
MAD #15, September 1954
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis

First science-fiction show on television based on movie serial.

Even though MAD was a color comic at the time, this particular story was in black and white to parody the conventions of television.

The show not only worked in their sponsors of candy bars and cereals, it was also used for tie-ins such as helmets and rings.

They did more than a thousand shows, but unfortunately during the dawn of television most programs were intended to only air once and never saved, so few tapes exist.
He also had his own comics series for a while, and one of the artists was George Evans, a regular for MAD's publisher E.C.