Action Comics vol.1 #54 – Cover date November 1942
In a keen reversal of the “Superman as guardian angel” plot, we meet timid, meek, unambitious Stanley Fitchcomb who reluctantly finds his calling – not with the help of the Man of Steel, but instead the hectoring ghost of his vicious pirate ancestor Captain Ironfist! Possessed by Ironfist’s ghost, Stanley becomes a modern-day buccaneer and falls afoul of Superman.
As villains go, Stanley is surprisingly sympathetic – he’s the victim of his ancestor’s ghost. Left to his own devices Stanley would rather dedicate himself to the management of his amusement park, but he’s needled into a life of crime on the high seas, and ultimately perishes as the ghost of Captain Ironfist ultimately goes unpunished…
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