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Issue: Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special #[nn]
Publication Date: May 2011
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/23/2011
Volume: none
Pages: 68
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Price: $4.99 USD
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Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
13 (7 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Jeff Youngquist (Reprint Editor); Joe Simon (Original Editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: One-Shot
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Variant Cover

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jack Kirby
?
Kai Spannuth
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Adolf Hitler; Bucky (inset)
Reprinting
FlagCaptain America Comics #1 published March 1941
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover, recolored
 
Miscellaneous
1
..Table of Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull; Rathkone; Omar
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
TOC page introduces the stories and features in text and art for this issue.
Case No. 1 Meet Captain America

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Al Liederman
Rob Schwager
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers] (introduction, origin); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (introduction); J. Arthur Grover; Professor Reinstein (introduction, death); President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Army is looking for a solution to the threat the Axis Powers pose to the people of America, and they discover the secret answer to their prayers: a super-soldier serum that will create an army of super soldiers! However, only one man receives the serum before it and its creator are destroyed: Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7.5
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
? (illustration)
? (illustration)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Here is how you can become a member of... Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
An advertisement inviting readers to join Captain America's "Sentinels of Liberty".
Case No. 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
Andres Mossa
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Betty Ross; Sando [Von Krantz] (introduction, villain); Omar (introduction, villain)
Captain America and Bucky set out to solve the riddle of the connection between a wave of sabotage sweeping the U.S. defense industries and a strange little man who predicted it would happen!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Captain America and the Soldiers' Soup

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
Joe Simon ? (illustrations); Jack Kirby ? (illustrations)
Joe Simon ? (illustrations); Jack Kirby ? (illustrations)
Fabio D'Auria
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America; Bucky; The Crusher (villain); Slinky (villain)
Cap and Bucky uncover a plot to poison an entire Army post by saboteurs.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
The Chess Board of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
Veronica Gandini
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Admiral Perkins (dies); Sgt. Mike Duffy (introduction); Rathcone (introduction, villain); Herr Kameleon (introduction, villain); Strangler (introduction, villain)
A weird figure has carved wooden chess figures of people who must be eliminated before he launches the mightiest blitzkrieg the would has ever seen. Unfortunately for him, two of those figures are Captain America and Bucky!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
16
The Riddle of the Red Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Ed Herron
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
Nathan Fairbairn
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Red Skull [George Maxon] (villain, introduction); Major Croy (dies); General Manor (dies)
Cap and Bucky come face to face with a villain who scares the wits out of his victims, then injects them with a poison that convinces others that he has killed them with his eyes!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
14
USA Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
Tom Smith
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Promotional advertisement for USA Comics and its features, which goes on sale about January 20th.
Murder Ltd.

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Matt Milla
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon (Original Editor)
Subject Matter
superhero
Hurricane
Hurricane [Mike Cury] (introduction); Pluto (villain); Piggy Perroni (villain)
Alarmed at the gangland murders in a coastal town, Hurricane decides to "join" the gang in order to be in a position to halt their crimes.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
10
The story is a reworked Mercury (the character from Red Raven Comics) story.
Stories from the Dark Ages

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Fabio D'Auria
Jack Kirby
Subject Matter
prehistoric
Tuk Caveboy
Tuk (introduction, origin); Phaidor (introduction, dies in flashback); Rhaya (introduction, dies in flashback); Tanir (introduction, villain, dies); Goreks (villain, introduction, dies)
Before his death, wise old Ak relates to Tuk about how he was the survivor of the hairless ones who once came to the jungle. Later, he meets up with Tanir, and they decide to team up and travel together.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Credits and Masthead

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Joe Simon (illustration); Jack Kirby (illustration)
Joe Simon (illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
Back cover promotional

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (Promotional text)
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
?
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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