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!
Next issue… the third Sleeper!
I realize the above is light on commentary. Maybe the epic finale next issue will inspire more verbiage from me.
Rating: ★★★☆☆, 53/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
I read this story in Marvel Masterworks: Captain America vol. 1.
Characters:
- Captain America
- Erica Wolfmann/Agent 2
- Schlag/Agent Three
Story notes:
- First Sleeper has awakened. Second Sleeper will be in Telbeck.
- Cap heads to NATO divisional base for weapons.
- Second sleeper flies, looks like manta ray.
- Schlag retrieves item from pawnbroker and murders him.
- Cap rides first two Sleepers joined while Schlag awakens Third Sleeper.
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The robot design is … not that great. I’m wondering if Kirby had a hand in it at all, or if it’s all Tuska
The first robot made it onto the cover of last issue, which usually suggests a Kirby design. This second one isn’t on any cover. Kirby did “layouts”, which might imply the basic manta ray design was his, but he left the details to Tuska to fill in. And Tuska just neglected to add any.
True, and Tuska did not stay very true to the cover design. Pincers instead of glowing globes for hands, those weird “Uggs” he put on his feet, less structure to the metal.
Stan softened the murder by adding dialog saying it was only sleeping gas that burst from the barrel of his gun. But it was clearly a gunshot that was drawn No pub intended.
Good point. And far from the first time we’ve seen the dialogue or narration explain what was happening was less deadly than what was plainly depicted.