Featuring: Captain America
Release: December 8, 1966
Cover: March 1967
12 cents
Editing: Stan Lee
Script: Roy Thomas
Drawn by: Jack Sparling
Inked by: Joe Sinnott
Lettered by: Sam Rosen
Subway swept by: Honest Irv
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You may have had hours of practice… but I’ve had years!
That’s quite a surprising line-up of creators. Lee and Kirby have been handling Captain America thus far. Kirby took a couple issues off last year, with fill-ins by Ayers or Romita. And Kirby isn’t done with the book, but it will be a few issues until we see him again, with Gil Kane taking over. Lee is only taking this one issue off.
Thomas is Lee’s standard backup at this point, so his name isn’t that surprising. Joe Sinnott is our favorite inker these days, so it’s good to see him.
But who is Jack Sparling? That’s a new name to us. He’s one of those guys that’s worked in comics since the 1940s, seemingly at every company but Marvel. This is his first Marvel work and he won’t become a regular.
Here’s a sampling of his work.
- The Yorktown Younger Set, Calling All Girls #3, Parents’ Magazine Press, 1942
- Hap Hopper, Sparkler Comics v2 #10, United Feature Syndicate, 1942
- Nyoka the Jungle Girl, Master Comics #50, Fawcett, 1944
- Claire Voyant, Keen Teens, M.E., 1945
- Lovers Lane #2, Lev-Gleason, 1949
- Texas Rangers, Action Comics #140, DC, 1950
- Kid Lochinvar, Great Lover Romances #1, Toby, 1951
- Warfront #1, Harvey, 1951
- Masked Raider #1, Charlton, 1955
- The Sword and the Dragon, Four Color #1118, Dell, 1960
- Adventures into the Unknown #121, ACG, 1961
- Immortal Man, Strange Adventures #177, DC, 1965
He’s at this time a fixture of DC’s horror books, while still drawing romance, war, or other comics for companies like Harvey and Dell.
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