cobra

CREATOR

Name: VIZ Media (Japanese comics corporation based in the USA).
Personal dates: Founded 1986 in California by Japanese born Seiji Horibuchi. Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under VIZ in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation publishes Manga stories and uses a variety of logos; the one to the left is one of many.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1990. Stopped in 1991 after 12 issues.

The title character is a daring and adventurous space pirate-buster, who is constantly chased by the space mafia. He has superhero abilities and a special blaster gun built into his arm*. One of Captain Cobra's helpers is the cyborg Armaroid Lady AKA Lady Armaroid.

* The series - that initially read from right to left - is of Japanese origin and ran from 1978 to 1984 (18 issues), in which the gun was on Cobra's left arm. When the series on this page was transformed to the usual Western reading style from left to right, the pages were mirrorred resulting in the gun 'flipping' to Cobra's right arm.