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"The Strange Death of Captain America" is a 1969 story arc written and illustrated by Jim Steranko published in Captain America, an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story follows the superhero Captain America as he struggles with his lack of a secret identity , while taking on Rick Jones as his new sidekick and fending ...
The arc first appears in Captain America #25–30. The first issue of the story arc, Captain America #25, was the highest selling comic for the month of its release. [1] The story arc had wide-sweeping effects throughout the Marvel Universe and was accompanied by the miniseries Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America.
Captain America is a superhero created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1, published on December 20, 1940, by Timely Comics, a corporate predecessor to Marvel.
Romita had been offered the Captain America work by Lee after Mort Lawrence's art was deemed unsatisfactory. [23] The character was billed now as "Captain America, Commie Smasher" in the wake of the Cold War and faced enemies associated with the Soviet Union. [24] The series was a commercial failure, and was cancelled after just three issues. [25]
During the Marvel era, Captain America was starring in the title Tales of Suspense, which was retitled Captain America with issue #100 (April 1968). [1] The new title Captain America continued to feature artwork by Jack Kirby, as well as a short run by Jim Steranko, and work by many of the industry's top artists and writers. It was called ...
The Death of Captain Marvel was written and drawn by Jim Starlin (pictured in 2018). Mar-Vell was created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan, and he first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967) where he was introduced as an alien warrior from the Kree Empire who had come to Earth. The character was poorly received and did not achieve the popularity ...
Hawkeye (Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Don Heck, the character first appeared as a supervillain in Tales of Suspense #57 (September 1964) and later joined the Avengers as a superhero in The Avengers #16 (May 1965).
He was a member of the "Big Three", alongside Jason Todd (an associate of Batman) and Bucky (an associate of Captain America) whose notable deaths, along with Ben's, gave rise to the phrase: "No one in comics stays dead except for Bucky, Jason Todd, and Uncle Ben". Later, the revivals of both Bucky and Jason in 2005 led to the amendment, "No ...