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Tales of Suspense #74, Story B

The Final Sleep!

Featuring: Captain America
Release: November 11, 1965
Cover: February 1966
12 cents
Blazing story: Stan Lee
Burning layouts: Jack Kirby
Blistering artwork: George Tuska
Burnt-out lettering: Artie Simek
10 pages

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Nazism, and all the evil it stood for, are dead! They must never live again!

Solid cover design.

This arc opened pretty strong. Red Skull vowed that his revenge would come 20 years after the day of his death on “Der Tag” when the Sleepers awakened. And the Sleepers turned out to be giant robots that combined together to make an even bigger robot. Solid premise. But hasn’t done much with it. We met one robot, then another. In the finale, we meet the third.

This is the brain, shaped like Red Skull’s head.

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Tales of Suspense #73, Story B

Where Walks the Sleeper!

Featuring: Captain America
Release: October 12, 1965
Cover: January 1966
12 cents
Spellbinding script by Stan Lee!
Spectacular layouts by Jack Kirby!
Sensational pencilling and scintillating delineation by George Tuska!
Stereophonic lettering by A. Simek!
10 pages

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I’ve seen the First Sleeper– and this is the Second! What can the Third be like??

Part 2 of a 3-part saga. 20 years to the day since the death of the Red Skull amidst the fall of Berlin in World War II. Red Skull’s revenge is 3 giant robots that will awaken and destroy the world. Last issue, the first one awoke. This issue… the second.

This one flies! Even though the story’s title is ironically, “Where Walks the Sleeper”.

And the two Sleepers join up to form an even bigger robot!

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