Cap comes back. March 1964.
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby could have done anything with issue four. The Avengers had launched seven months earlier; the team was still finding its shape. What they did instead was reach back twenty years — into the Timely Comics vault, to the character who had outsold everyone during the war — and thaw him out. Steve Rogers, frozen in the North Atlantic since 1945, pulled from the ice by Namor, found floating by the team. The revival takes half the issue. The second half is Cap joining.
It's one of the most consequential storytelling decisions of the Silver Age. Every Captain America appearance in every medium since — the films, the television, every panel of every comic, every shield-bearer who followed — traces back to the fourteen pages Kirby drew here.
Graded CBCS 3.5 with Off-White/White pages. Jack Kirby and George Roussos cover and interior art. Stan Lee story. Bucky's first Silver Age appearance, in flashback. A Sub-Mariner appearance. And the scene that set the template for every "return of the hero" story Marvel would tell for the next sixty years.
Cap comes back. March 1964.
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby could have done anything with issue four. The Avengers had launched seven months earlier; the team was still finding its shape. What they did instead was reach back twenty years — into the Timely Comics vault, to the character who had outsold everyone during the war — and thaw him out. Steve Rogers, frozen in the North Atlantic since 1945, pulled from the ice by Namor, found floating by the team. The revival takes half the issue. The second half is Cap joining.
It's one of the most consequential storytelling decisions of the Silver Age. Every Captain America appearance in every medium since — the films, the television, every panel of every comic, every shield-bearer who followed — traces back to the fourteen pages Kirby drew here.
Graded CBCS 3.5 with Off-White/White pages. Jack Kirby and George Roussos cover and interior art. Stan Lee story. Bucky's first Silver Age appearance, in flashback. A Sub-Mariner appearance. And the scene that set the template for every "return of the hero" story Marvel would tell for the next sixty years.
