Created by Mars Ravelo and first published in United Komiks of PSG Publishing House in 1966, Captain Boom is presented in sources as a human comic-book character whose crime-fighting identity was developed within the Philippine komiks tradition. The televised adaptation (2008) localizes his name to Kapitan Boom; sources note a familial origin detail in which his grandmother made his first costume from a red shirt and pants plus a handkerchief with holes used as a mask.
Depicted wearing a red suit bearing a three-star emblem on the chest and a blue cape. Early origin-detail described in sources states his grandmother fashioned his first costume from a red shirt and pants and a handkerchief with holes that served as a mask. The television adaptation uses the localized name Kapitan Boom but cited sources do not provide further, detailed differences in visual design beyond the general red suit, three-star emblem, and blue cape.
Sources describe Captain Boom's powers as produced through sonic means. He is said to be able to fly (flight attributed specifically to creation of sound waves, with the stated limitation that he cannot fly in space because sound is absent there), run fast, and possess amplified hearing. He can create a sonic shield and emit a sonic roar (the TV series uses the terms "super shield" and "super boom" for these abilities). The character is noted as not having super strength, though the sonic shield has been described in sources as allowing contact effects (for example, forming a shield on his fist that can dent a vehicle without injuring his hand). He functions as a costumed crime fighter in comics and television.
Weaknesses
- conditionInability to fly in space (flight depends on sound waves; no flight in vacuum as there is no sound)
Wards
None recorded.
Aguingay
Aguingay (also Agingay) is a legendary woman from the Bulusan epic of Sorsogon, Philippines. Presented as a mortal of exceptional beauty and tragic fate, her life and death are etiologically linked to local landscape features (Mt. Bulusan and two lakes) and commemorated in an annual festival.
Alan
A class of non‑human spirit-beings in Tinguian (Philipine) folklore associated with reproductive wastes and springs; said to transform discarded menstrual blood, afterbirth, or miscarried tissue into human children whom they rear, and to dwell in fine houses near springs. Key described features include wings and backward-pointing fingers and toes.
Amalanhig
Amalanhig are Visayan undead beings in Philippine folk belief, described as aswang who failed to transfer their monstrosity or power before death and who rise from graves to attack living humans. Accounts portray them as externally human in appearance with enlarged upper canines and as predators that bite, feed with a pointed tongue in some tellings, or — in an alternative variant — tickle victims to death.
Angalo
Angalo is a primordial culture-hero and giant in Ilocano mythology credited with shaping the landscape of Luzon and explaining natural phenomena; narratives present him as the first man and an ancestral figure whose bodily acts produced mountains, valleys, seas, and celestial features.
Anggitay
A Philippine folkloric female equid–human hybrid often described with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a horse. Frequently compared to the Greek centauride and sometimes presented as a female counterpart to the tikbalang; traditionally associated with an attraction to gemstones and jewelry and with a local homeland in Santo Tomas, Batangas in some accounts.
Anito
Anito is a category of non‑human and post‑human spiritual beings in indigenous Philippine animistic worldviews, encompassing ancestor spirits, nature spirits/local deities, and sometimes carved effigies (taotao) that house or represent those spirits. They mediate relations between the living and the unseen world, functioning as household guardians, owners of places, intercessors, or occasional agents of harm when offended.
Aswang
The most feared supernatural being in Philippine folklore — a shape-shifting monster that appears human by day but transforms at night to prey on pregnant women and children.
Bakla
Bakla is a Philippine social and gender category—commonly an assigned‑male‑at‑birth person who adopts a feminine gender expression and is often treated as a third gender. Historically some bakla served as indigenous ritual specialists (babaylan, katalonan), but the term itself denotes a social identity, not a supernatural being.
Bakunawa
A dragon- or serpent-like mythic being from Philippine tradition associated with the moon and eclipses; its actions explain lunar eclipses and some natural phenomena and were integrated into ritual practice and calendrical knowledge.
Bal-Bal
A Philippine folkloric undead/monster that steals corpses from funerals and graves and feeds on them, noted for keen scent for dead bodies, sharp claws and teeth, foul breath, and reportedly leaving a banana‑tree trunk in the coffin as a substitute for the stolen corpse.
Bathalà
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Batibat
The Batibat is a vengeful, tree-dwelling female spirit in Philippine (Ilocano and Tagalog) folklore associated with causing suffocative sleep afflictions, nightmares, and sleep paralysis when trees that house it are felled and used near human sleeping spaces.
Community Record
- [1]Captain Boom. Wikipedia: 'Captain Boom' entry (accessed sources provided in research notes)wiki
- [2]Komiks Presents: Kapitan Boom. Wikipedia: 'Komiks Presents: Kapitan Boom' entry (2008 television adaptation information)wiki