vince alascia – Coke ⊕ Comics

PRELUDE: Two-Gun Kid #1

Introducing the Two-Gun Kid

Featuring: Two-Gun Kid
Release: January 27, 1948
10 cents
10 pages

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	INTERLUDE	Two-Gun Kid #60
Fantastic Four #8	Reading order	Journey Into Mystery #86

I got two guns that bark and roar,
they’re shooting day and night,
I got two guns and wish I had four,
because I like to fight!

No date appears on the cover.

The GCD credits the art to Syd Shores and Vince Alascia. The writer is unknown.

We are introduced to the Two-Gun Kid and his horse Cyclone.

We don’t learn Kid’s given name this issue. At some point we learn it’s Clay Harder.

PRELUDE: Captain America Comics #37, Story C

Frozen Death

Featuring: Captain America
Release: February 11, 1944
Cover: April 1944
10 cents
15 pages

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Young Allies #4	Prelude	Captain America Comics #61
Sgt. Fury #16	Reading order	Tales of Suspense #65

The GCD credits the story to Otto Binder, Al Gabriele, and Vince Alascia.

Mostly a miscellaneous story we won’t dwell on. Three things stand out.

First, we note all clues about the identity of the Red Skull. He’s taken to using more German phrases than ever before. “Himmel”, “Donnervetter”. He refers to Captain America and Bucky as “American scum”. So perhaps this is a German villain, and not George Maxon.

Captain America and Bucky unmask him and recognize him as the “real” Red Skull they’ve fought before. This also implicitly acknowledges there may be “fake” Red Skulls out there.