Captain Explosion's Blast Zone

Captain Explosion is a registered trademark of the US PATENT OFFICE by stunt performer Jim Moreau. Jim Moreau started his thrill show career in June of 1967 as a ramphand with the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. The following year he was off to the Buddy Wagner's Lucky Mustang Hell Drivers where he started performing stunts in autos and on motorcycles. Since those early days he has worked for every major touring thrill show on the east coast and Canada. In 1972, Jim was off to the newest thrill show from Danville, Illinois called The Deathriders Motorcycle Thrill Show. Johnny Hardin was performing the Human Bomb that year. The next year Danny Reed took over the stunt from scratch as Johnny was not needed for his high salary. Later Jim had to perform the Coffin when Danny took sick. The way we perform the act back then was completely different than the way we do it today. Back in those times we were using Class "B" explosives and a real wooden box. In 1974, Jim started performing the coffin at Speedways thru out the US and Canada. That same year he received his first injury at the old JFK Stadium in Phillie when he had his hand in the wrong place and blew up his knuckle. 1980 came around and Jim went to work for Big John Anderson and his World Series of Thrills. john took Jim aside as he knew he had been doing the Coffin and introduced him to The Russian Death Chair using real dynamite, cardboard and tin foil instead of wood for the rest of the season. After that day he performed the act over 80 times during the season and also came up with the name Captain Explosion as others were calling themselves Mr.TNT, Captain Dynamite, etc. In the 80's Jim came across the same act but they were using oxygen and actyline to blow up the chair. This was the most spectacular act out of all that I have seen. It was done by Doug Pearson of Raleigh, North Carolina. A few years later Jim learned how to do another Coffin Act with 4 sticks of real dynamite or even Tovax for the explosive charge from the real Captain Dynamite (Pat Midnite O'Brian). In the 90's, it started hard to get the real stuff because of government regulations and red tape so everyone started to improvise with other stuff, even Coffeemate. Now a safe act has gotten dangerous and unsafe because everything now is unstable and will go off from a spark or static electricity. Around 1994, Jim was seen performing his explosive stunts by Mike Foster. Mike worked a few of Jim's shows and Jim worked for Mike. After leaving Mike's show, Mike still used Jim's name Captain Explosion which he knew Jim used for many years. In 2000 Mike was still using the name Captain Explosion and Jim's fans would think it was Jim, Jim lost alot of dates because Mike cut back on the gas and explosives and it was not of the same high quality performance that Jim was known to do. So in 2002 Jim applied for and received a trademark for the name Captain Explosion to prevent any further downing of the name that he has used since 1980. All because a few stuntperformers can not come up with names on their own.

This picture of Captain Explosion, "aka Jim "Crash" Moreau is the blast of a pound of explosives that was placed and detonated 18 inches from his head in the DOOMS DAY CHAIR in 2005 on the Legends Stunt Show.