These two issues comprise the middle of a four-part storyline in Marvel Team-Up featuring Namor, the second of which features Captain America (with a brief appearance by him in the next). The story actually began in issue #6 in a team-up with Spider-Man, which was Namor's first appearance in the 616 Universe since he returned... Continue Reading →
In this issue of Wolverine, we find the title character in a bit of an existential crisis after a series of personal struggles and a decline in his mutant abilities, and he finds himself in an old-fashioned brawl with an old friend from World War II, Captain America. As with all good team-up stories, we... Continue Reading →
This issue is an exciting, back-to-basics, done-in-one tale of Captain America versus Hydra, ending in a significant status change for our hero (who you'd think has had enough such changes over the last year or so). I think it may be time for me to hang up my regular objections to Cap being shown throwing... Continue Reading →
These three issues—plus a prologue in Fantastic Four #6—comprise the first crossover event of the "Heroes Reborn" era, which ends in Captain America #6. We'll get to our brief coverage of that story later in this post, but first we discuss the bulk of that issue, which deals with our hero meeting someone from his... Continue Reading →
This is a rare appearance of Captain America in a different "Heroes Reborn" title outside of crossover stories, and is notable for two reasons: his reunion with an old friend (that he somehow remembers, despite having few solid memories of any reality), and seeing Jim Lee draw our hero for the first time since Uncanny... Continue Reading →
Although these two comics were published in the middle of the Onslaught Saga, both take place slightly earlier—although the cover of Marvel Fanfare, which hypes the story as Captain America and the Falcon's "final adventure", does not bode well for the conclusion of that massive crossover storyline! Note also the George Pérez cover to the... Continue Reading →
This post covers the first month of the Onslaught event that spelled the end of the first volumes of many Marvel titles, including Captain America and Avengers, which were relaunched afterwards as part of the "Heroes Reborn" initiative (on which more soon). In the story itself, a psionic entity known as Onslaught, formed from the... Continue Reading →
This issue marks the end of the first volume of Captain America, which began with issue #100 in April 1968, continuing the numbering of Tales of Suspense, which Cap shared with Iron Man starting with issue #59 in November 1964. The story in this issue itself is a neat and tidy done-in-one, highlighting Captain America... Continue Reading →
These two issues finish the "Man without a Country" storyline, in which Steve Rogers is stripped of the Captain America title and his American citizenship after President Bill Clinton accused him of conspiring with the Red Skull: specifically, trading secrets about an anti-aircraft weapon in exchange for the blood transfusion that saved his life (in... Continue Reading →
These two issues comprise the first half of the "Man without a Country" storyline, the first time in years that our hero has found himself on the wrong side of the United States government. At the end of the first "Secret Empire" storyline, Steve Rogers resigned the Captain America identity out of disgust with his... Continue Reading →
THE VIRTUES OF CAPTAIN AMERICA 