Hollywood, 1939. Josh Jones has escaped rural Mississippi racism and found a makeshift family among other refugees in Tinseltown. His secret life as Captain Gravity is known only to best friends C. F. Avery, a movie director, and Chase Dubois, a starlet. He isn't the only spare-time hero. Chase has been spying for the government, keeping tabs on prominent German archaeologist Jan Gunther. When her worst fears are confirmed at a dig in the Middle East, Captain Gravity must save her and the world. Dysart and team's conception resonates with comics and pulp history from early Superman and Batman onward. A fresh and loving homage to the pulps, early comics, and sci-fi movie serials.