PRELUDE: Captain America Comics #61

The Red Skull Strikes Back

Featuring: Captain America
Release: January 16, 1947
Cover: March 1947
10 cents
12 pages

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This is the first post-WWII appearance of the Red Skull. According to 1960s continuity, Captain America was frozen in a block of ice prior to war’s end, and Bucky was killed. Per 1940s continuity, they both survived the war and went on to fight crime on the homefront. So something already needs reconciling well before we throw Red Skull into the mix.

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