Years later, the rights to the series landed with Dynamite Comics, who revived the franchise as part of Kirby Genesis, a Massive Multiplayer Crossover involving as many of Kirby's creator-owned characters as Dynamite could acquire. This led to a new six-issue miniseries, in which the good captain and his crew dealt with the modern world.
In 2014, Joe Casey put out a six-issue miniseries involving Captain Victory. In this reimagining, the current Captain Victory is killed in battle, and an accident causes two of his clones to be sent to opposite ends of the galaxy, forcing his crew to find them while also battling against Blackmaas and dealing with Ranger Central, which has assumed that Victory is dead and wants the Tiger to return home to get a new captain.
Versions of Captain Victory also appeared in Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters (written by Kirby's daughter Lisa, based on unused material from Captain Victory #7) and Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure.
Not to be confused with Captain Victory, a Golden Age hero by the same name.
This series contains examples of:
The Original Series
- Arc Words: Throughout the series, the phrases "Victory is sacrifice", "Sacrifice is continuity" and "Continuity is tribulation" are repeated and emphasize how Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers' efforts to defend the universe from the forces of evil are not entirely cut and dried.
- Body Backup Drive: Captain Victory has occasionally cheated death simply by having his consciousness transferred to a new body after he is killed.
- Death by Origin Story: Captain Victory's mentor Captain Flane encouraged him to go and join the Galactic Corps while he stayed behind with the intent of going down fighting in a bloody battle against his enemies. As Captain Victory wasn't present during his mentor's final moments, he can only speculate on how his last stand went.
- Fetus Terrible: One character is Paranex the Fighting Fetus, a powerful, armored being who is apparently not born yet, with everyone dreading what the being will be like after birth.
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In the sixth issue, Director Chusang protests to Major Klavus that he is an engineer, not a god.
- Last of His Kind: Mister Mind mentions in the third issue that he is the last of his kind.
- Make Them Rot: Ursan the Unclean has the power to reduce people to piles of bone and ash just by touching them.
- Origins Episode: Captain Victory's origins are revealed in a three-part story consisting of the series' final three issues.
- "Pop!" Goes the Human: A flashback to Captain Victory's youth in the eleventh issue has him witness the execution of King Zarid, who is done in when the minions of Captain Victory's grandfather Blackmass force him to ingest a compressed air pill, causing him to inflate like a balloon and explode.
- Spin-Offspring: In a subtle way, as the comic is a Stealth Sequel to Jack Kirby's New Gods saga and heavily implies Captain Victory to be the son of Orion (who is neither shown nor named for legal reasons).
- Stealth Sequel: Just as New Gods before it was intended as a follow-up to Kirby's run on The Mighty Thor by establishing a new pantheon rising from the ashes of a post-Ragnarok Asgard, this series is hinted to be a continuation of New Gods (albeit with names changed or left unmentioned to prevent litigation from DC), with Captain Victory's grandfather Blackmass heavily implied to be Darkseid and his deceased father being unnamed, but hinted to be Orion through Blackmass noting how stubborn and defiant Captain Victory's father was and Victory being able to escape the planet Hellikost in his youth by piecing together a device based on a design created by his father, which is unmistakably Orion's Astro-Harness.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Captain Victory was originally supposed to be the son of Orion from New Gods, which would make Darkseid his grandfather. As this was obviously not an option for Kirby after his defection to Pacific since the rights to his Fourth World characters were retained by DC Comics, Darkseid became Blackmass, and his obsession with the Anti-Life Equation became an obsession with the Anti-Truth Equation.
- Writing Around Trademarks: Since the series couldn't legally reuse the names of characters and concepts from New Gods without DC possibly suing for trademark infringement, Captain Victory's grandfather is named Blackmass instead of Darkseid, his home planet is named Hellikost instead of Apokolips and his deceased father is unnamed, but strongly implied to be Orion.
The Joe Casey Miniseries
- Amnesiac Hero: Both of the Victory clones were incomplete, and thus don't have the full memories of their predecessor.
- And the Adventure Continues: The miniseries concludes with the fully reconstituted Captain Victory proudly ordering his crew to take the fight to his grandfather Blackmass.
- Canon Welding: Casey's series came closer than ever before to Canon Welding Captain Victory with New Gods, depicting the silhouette of a corporeal Blackmass (clearly Darkseid) in flashback as "the universe's Dark Side". We also get a glimpse of Captain Victory's father fighting Blackmass in a later panel, the former clearly being an obscured-in-shadow Orion.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Victor, the teenage clone of the Captain, is sent back in time to 1970's Earth.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Just as the crew of the Tiger manage to home in on the older clone's location, Ranger Central suddenly steps in to demand that they return home, as their ship is due for repairs and replenishment and the clone that they're tracking is in a quarantined galaxy.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Without their Captain pulling them together, Talin, Orca, and Mister Mind spend a lot of their time bickering.
- We Have Reserves: Ranger Central's stance on Captain Victory's possible death is that the crew of the Tiger was reckless going into battle without a ready back-up for their captain, and therefore, they need to return to base for a new captain.
