Captain Midnight

Character History

History & Public Domain Status

Captain Midnight, AKA Jim "Red" Albright, debuted in 1940’s Captain Midnight radio serial before soaring into comics, film serials, and even a TV show.

A masked aviator and brilliant inventor, he embodied wartime courage and scientific ingenuity.

Lacking copyright renewals on much of his Golden Age material, the character is now firmly in the public domain, though later incarnations under trademark remain protected.

While the original Golden Age stories of Captain Midnight are in the public domain, Dark Horse Comics holds a registered trademark for the character in comic books. Our work uses only the public domain elements, currently only for promoting our prose selections and other merchandise and does not overlap with that trademark class.

In our stories, Captain Midnight, AKA Jamie "Jim" Albright, is a pioneering female pilot who concealed her identity during wartime service, flying bombers as "Jim" Albright.

She carries forward the daring spirit of the original but through the lens of hidden histories — a woman who fought, flew, and thrived in a man’s world.

Her Midnight legacy is about resilience, reinvention, and uncovering truths history left in the shadows.