Featuring: Captain America
Release: September 8, 1864
Cover: December 1964
12 cents
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inked by: Chic Stone
Lettered by: Art Simek
10 pages
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Last issue, Captain America fought a gang of generic villains in purple jumpsuits. This issue, the generic villains are wearing green jumpsuits and work for Zemo. “Army of Assassins” may be their official name, as it’s used repeatedly.
There really won’t be much in the way of a story here, so what value we find will have to be in dramatic expressions and posing, and of course in the high energy action on display. I suspect Kirby will come through.
Dramatic expression. Check.
Dramatic pose. Check.
Ooh, look at the high energy action on display.
I’ll note that one assassin has an “iron fist”. That’s a catchy name for a weapon.
Rating: ★★★☆☆, 51/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
I read this story in Marvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 1. You can also find it in Captain America Epic Collection vol. 1: Captain America Lives Again. Or on Kindle.
Characters:
- Captain America
- Zemo
- Rick Jones
Story notes:
- Zemo’s Army of Assassins training to defeat Captain America.
- Rick has studying to do.
- Captain America gives private exhibition for charity benefit.
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THIS was my first solo Captain America comic story I ever read (just a few years after it came out) so it will always hold a special place in my heart. I already liked Cap thanks to a coloring book, his cartoon series (then in reruns) and his Avengers appearances but this is what made me a fan then and to this day (though I have to admit I have no real clue what he’s like nowadays, but there’s Bronze, Silver and Golden Age back issues, the MCU, and various animated appearances aplenty that have kept that going. Ironically, all that I ever remember of this story is the sledgehammer glove (which I made various shabby playacting props of back in the day), the fight images, and Cap’s look on the whole, yet that’s more than enough to still feel fondly of it.
This era and look will always be who Captain America and Steve Roger’s are to me and what all other versions have to compete with.