Literacy series for seven- to nine-year-olds. Fearless Captain Crimson is stranded in hyperspace, facing a fate worse than death, when his creator, Jeff, gets writer's block. Although Jeff's young son comes to the rescue and writes the captain's escape through a black hole, Crimson is now trapped in the real world, where he and his friends are inadvertently caught up in a bank raid and the Captain is taken hostage.