Captain Bloody Captain Bloody Captain Bloody is an Australian musical comedy by Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett. It concerns a young gynaecologist, Eric Blood, whose closet fantasy is to be Errol Flynn. He finds out about a club, Heroes Anonymous, where people can live out their fantasies without hurting anyone, run by a man who thinks he is Winston Churchill. "Captain Bloody" opened at the Footbridge Theatre in Sydney on 1 May 1984 and ran to 23 June 1984, produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Dunsinane Enterprises. It then played a short season at the Canberra Theatre from 3–7 July
Captain Blood (novel) features prominently in Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "Micah Clarke" (1889). In the opening chapter of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel "The Club Dumas" (1993), two characters discuss their favourite novel by Sabatini; book dealer Lucas Corso declares his preference for "Captain Blood". Alan Moore's comic book series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" incorporates many characters from classic books, including Peter Blood as a member of the Pirates' Conference in "The New Traveller's Almanac" (2002–2003). Captain Blood (novel) Captain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. Sabatini was a proponent of basing historical fiction as closely