How many of us monster kids, living in the heyday of the Monster World in the 1960s, saved up our nickels until we could stop thumbing through the pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland and actually order something from those Captain Company ads?
It appears there isn’t a definitive history of Captain Company online, which is too bad. I’d love to know more about the mail-order company, which was purportedly based on the East Coast and was the mail-order sales division of Warren Publishing, which unleashed Famous Monsters, Creepy and other mags on the world.
Looking around the Interwebs, though, I see a few people with some of the same memories of Captain Company.
Especially the Captain Company ads: Like their comic book counterparts for X-Ray Specs and the like, the Captain Company ads were a riot of amateurish drawings, over-eager copy and outright misrepresentations.
I ordered back issues of FM through Captain Company as well as a few other items, the details of which I’ve long forgotten. It’s possible I bought some of those little 8 millimeter films — digest versions of classic Universal horror movies — through Captain Company.
I believe Captain Company has been revived, in some form, as a merchandising arm of the new Famous Monsters. It’s not the same, of course, but neither are we.
Here are some ads, many of them collected by http://www.diversionsofthegroovykind.blogsppot.com
keithroysdon 
WOW. Haven’t seen this stuff since 3rd grade!
Surely the best of times!. Always wanted to order aurora monster kits and the squirrel monkeys. Here’s to famous monsters / captain co. & the great forest j. Ackerman. The one & only acker monster!!!.