Editing Captain Action (section)

==== Moonstone Books ====
In 2008 [[Moonstone Books]] began a new series and created a new back-story for the character. Captain Action was now Miles Drake, a former [[Marine (military)|Marine]] who discovers a cache of alien weaponry during the [[Vietnam War]]. The weapons are connected to a race of alien parasites called the Red Crawl, who have been taking over world leaders in a bid to dominate the earth. The Red Crawl's main representative on earth is Dr. Eville (based on Dr. Evil from the Ideal toy line). Drake becomes an agent of the A.C.T.I.O.N. Directorate, a secret agency operating outside the government and dedicated to defending earth from the alien menace. The name of the organization is an [[acronym]] for "Advanced Command for Telluric Interdiction Observation and Nullification". Eventually, the A.C.T.I.O.N. directorate is able to use the alien technology to create [[superheroes]] and the Red Crawl is apparently defeated. The series also tell the story of a second Captain Action, Miles's rebellious son, Cole Drake, who inherits the heroic identity in the 21st century. It is revealed that the Red Crawl was never actually defeated and that the superheroic Protectors are actually under their control. Cole must struggle against the renewed alien menace and the rogue superheroes. The stories of the original Captain Action are told in the 1960s where the character is a costumed super spy. The identity-changing aspect of the toy line shows up in Captain Action's ability to use a material called "plastiderm" to disguise himself as almost anyone. In the modern stories the younger Captain Action uses the more advanced "plasmaderm" which allows him not only to assume someone's likeness, but any powers they possess. Thus Captain Action is finally able to change into other superheroes, though this only works for original characters like Savior rather than for licensed characters like Superman. The exception to this has been a crossover adventure with [[the Phantom]] whose adventures Moonstone was also publishing.

Moonstone has featured a similarly revised Action Boy. In this version he is Sean Barrett, the son of a famous naturalist whose identity is assumed by Dr. Eville. His stories also take place in the 1960s. Moonstone has also created an original character, Lady Action, who works for the British branch of the A.C.T.I.O.N. Directorate. Both Action Boy and  the newly introduced Lady Action (AKA Nicola Sinclair), have been featured as back up stories in the Captain Action comic. Lady Action also debuted in a one shot comic of her own in 2010, and continues to play a pivotal role in the Captain Action ongoing Series.

[[Moonstone Books]] published a new Captain Action comic book from 2008 to 2010, with the initial six-issue arc written by [[Fabian Nicieza]]. A ''Captain Action Special'' was also released in 2010 as well as a two-issue miniseries teaming up Captain Action with the Phantom, written by [[Mike Bullock]]. In July 2010, ''Captain Action Season 2'', an ongoing series written by Steven Grant, debuted that lasted 3 issues. Moonstone planned on releasing ''Captain Action: Classified'', which would tell stories of Captain Action's earliest adventures in the 1960s, but this did not happen.

Instead, in 2013 [[Dynamite Entertainment]] put out a mini-series with Captain Action called ''Codename: Action'' that included several pulp and comic book characters in an origin story for Captain Action.