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Issue: Captain America Epic Collection #20
Publication Date: January 2023
 
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Title: Fighting Chance
Variant: unnamed
Rating: T+
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/10/2023
Volume: 20
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9781302951566
UPC/EAN: 978130295156654499
Price: $56.25 CAD
$44.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: T+
Content Items: 57 (17 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy; cardstock cover
Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Quicksilver; Super Patriot [Mike Farrell]
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Epic Collection

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Promo ad for other issues in the Epic Collection series of titles.
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Captain America: Fighting Chance

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Fighting Chance

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Battling the Blazing Skull!

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Blazing Skull [Jim Scully]
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Skull Sessions

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Nick Fury; SHIELD; Quasar [Wendell Vaughn]; Blazing Skull [Jim Scully]; Nightshift [Digger; Misfit; Brothers Grimm; Needle]; Skull the Slayer [Jim Scully] (flashback); Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]; Machinesmith; Giscard Epúrer (on monitor); Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Doctor Faustus
After busting up one of his bases, the Red Skull sends Cap on a wild goose chase, namely after the new hero called Blazing Skull, who was once known as Skull the Slayer.
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Continued in Nomad (Marvel, 1992 series) #19.
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When One Just Isn't Enough... Force: Nomad

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Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Wanderers [Outback; Flintlock; Chisel; Billy]
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Super Soldier Soireé

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Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Wanderers [Outback; Flintlock; Chisel; Billy]; Captain America (illusion); Doctor Faustus; Zaran; Jill Coltrain; Ed Monroe (illusion); Mary Ellen Monroe (illusion); Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Cannibal Catch [Fastback; Folio; Hardhat; Transom]; Slug
Jack is convinced by Faustus' mercenaries to assassinate Slug. Cap steps in to prevent this.
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Story continues in Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series) #421.
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Vs. Nomad for the Life of-- The Slug?!

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Slug
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Gantlet

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Jim Garvey
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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Slug; Giscard Epúrer (flashback); Doctor Faustus (flashback); Mr. Monroe (Jack's father, in flashback); Cannibal Catch [Fastback; Transom; Hardhat; Folio]
A brainwashed Nomad is after Slug's life. Cap has to try and stop him.
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Continued from Nomad (Marvel, 1992 series) #18. Continued in Nomad (Marvel, 1992 series) #19.
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Captain America: Fighting Chance: Denial TPB Cover

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The Faustus Affair Conclusion!

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Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Bucky (baby); Captain America [Steve Rogers]
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Buried Treasures

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Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Wanderers [Flintlock; Outback; Chisel; Billy]; Doctor Faustus (Death); Senator Bart Ingrid; Jill Coltrain
Jack is recaptured by Faustus, only to be freed by Cap. An imprisoned Faustus is then shot through the head by Jack.
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Story continues from Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series) #421.
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Nomad vs. Captain America

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Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
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Is Anyone Ready for Blistik?!?

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Blistik
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Going Ballistic

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Dennis Dunphy [D-Man]; Blistik (introduction); Marilla; Luna; Fabian Stankovitz; Mike O'Brien; Peggy Carter (voice only); Zack Moonhunter; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Diamondback
Someone has shot Cap's statue. Meanwhile, Cap is dealing with Blistik, a vigilante.
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Vs. Namor the Sub-Mariner

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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War Zones

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Nazis
In the early days of World War II, the Sub-Mariner is not clear who his enemy is. He kidnaps the President, but Cap and Bucky persuade him that the Nazis are his real enemies.
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This story takes place in early 1941, before Giant-Size Invaders (Marvel, 1975 series) #1.
The only issue in this run of Captain America not written by Mark Gruenwald.
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[untitled]

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The Medusa Effect

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The Medusa Effect

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Captain America; Bucky; Baron Zemo; Master Man
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Story set in World War II
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Sneak Attack by the Sidewinder!

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Sidewinder
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The Last Operation

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Amelia Voelker (Sidewinder's daughter, introduction); Mrs. Seth Voelker (Sidewinder's ex-wife, introduction); Sidewinder; Dr. Clendening; Fabian Stankovitz
Sidewinder needs money for his daughter's operation and he approaches Cap for help so he does not have to return to a life of crime. When Cap is unable to come up with the money, Sidewinder starts ripping off drug dealers but runs into trouble. After rescuing him, Cap agrees to fund Sidewinder's daughter's treatment if he will turn himself in and pay for his crimes.
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Fighting Chance Book 1

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Super Patriot [Mike Farrell]
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Fighting Chance Part One Super Patriot Games

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Dr. Kincaid; Diamondback; The Avengers [Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Vision]; Tinkerer; Super-Patriot [Mike Farrell] (introduction); Dead Ringer [Lou Dexter, also as Porcupine, Killgrave the Purple Man, Mirage] (introduction); Masters of Evil [Baron Zemo [Heinrich Zemo]; Executioner; Black Knight [Nathan Garret]; Melter]
The new Super Patriot gets a Cap shield from the Tinkerer to complete his costume. Cap is told that the Super Soldier serum is breaking down in his body and he can either quit being a hero or continue his active lifestyle for a year before it kills him. Super Patriot dresses as Captain America and fights the Porcupine at a political function, injuring many bystanders and tarnishing Cap's reputation. Cap holds a press conference to explain that he was not responsible for the Porcupine debacle but is attacked by the original Master's of Evil who just happen to all be dead. When the bad guys turn out to be illusions, Cap looks even worse in front of his not-so-adoring public, especially as Super Patriot shows up to ferret out the "real" bad guy. With his health and his heroic status spiraling out of control, Cap tries to figure out what has gone wrong with his life.
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There is a two page segment where Cap stops a kid stealing comic books and there is a brief discussion of the state of collecting in the comic book industry and the fact that violent vigilante heroes are the most popular (this was near the apex of the speculator boom of the 1990s).
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Captain America's Brooklyn Heights Headquarters

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Cap versus Red Skull

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Red Skull
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Cap and Diamondback

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback
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Diamondback

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Diamondback [Rachel Leighton]
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Cap in front of the White House

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]
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Fighting Chance Book 2

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]
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Graven Images

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Dead Ringer [Lou Dexter, also as Death Adder, Night Flyer]; Super Patriot [Mike Farrell]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Fabian Stankovitz; Sam Wilson [Falcon]; Resistants [Meteorite [Lifter]; Occult [Peeper]; Crucible [Burner]]; Bernie Rosenthal; Code: Blue [Lt. Stone; Rassitano; Ruiz]
Dead Ringer and Super Patriot (posing as Cap) try to make Cap look bad, but fail miserably.
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Book 2 of Fighting Chance.
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Fighting Chance Book 3

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Quicksilver; Super Patriot [Mike Farrell]
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Enemy Fire

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Quicksilver; Zack Moonhunter; Fabian Stankovitz; Bernie Rosenthal; Dead Ringer [also as Solarr, Cheetah, Blue Streak, Blackout]; Super-Patriot [Mike Farrell]; Snapdragon (flashback); Sammy
With Cap's health still in question as the Super Soldier serum continues to break down, he keeps finding himself battling villains long thought dead. Bernie and Diamondback are captured by Blackout and Cap and Super-Patriot both come to the rescue. Of course they end up beating on each other.
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Fighting Chance Book 4 The Sentinel of Liberty Crushed by Americop!

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Americop
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Signature dated 1994.
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Policing the Nation

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Zack Moonhunter; Arnie Roth; Americop [Bart Gallows] (introduction); Golddigger [Angela Golden]; Kono; Dead Ringer; Snapdragon (illusion); Lieutenant Stone; Fabian Stankovitz
During interrogation, Dead Ringer turns into Snapdragon and tells Diamondback that she can find out the fate of the woman she believes she has killed in the city of New Orleans. Cap sends Diamondback and Moonhunter down to the Big Easy where they are promptly captured by Damon Dran. Cap tangles with a psychotic cop who is traveling the country killing criminals.
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Captain America #428 Cover Art

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Fighting Chance Book 5 Americop! Kono the Sumo! A Few Reasons Why Cap Has Gone Down The Beaten Path!

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Kono the Sumo
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The Beaten Path

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Zack Moonhunter; Americop [Bart Gallows]; Kono the Sumo; Damon Dran; Golddigger
Cap finds himself in a small town jail after his encounter with Americop and it takes a call from the president to free him. Americop continues his killing spree. Diamondback and Moonhunter find that they are captured by Damon Dran and his flunkies and Sumo gives Rachel an impromptu haircut. Cap and Americop both show up at Damon's mansion to bring him down.
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Fighting Chance Book 6

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback [Rachel Leighton]; Sumo; Jake; Kono; Damon Dram; Americop
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Cop Out

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Zack Moonhunter; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Americop [Bart Gallows] (origin); Jake; Kono; Damon Dran; Golddigger
Cap and Americop rescue Diamondback but are captured by Damon Dran and his goons. While Americop breaks free, Cap's weakened condition due to the breakdown of the Super Soldier serum in his system leaves him sapped and trapped. Diamondback and Black Widow have to come to his rescue leaving Cap feeling a bit worthless.
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Coming Soon:

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]
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Full page pin-up with a blurb for the tradepaperback collection Captain America: Streets of Poison (Marvel, 1994 series) #[nn].
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Through the Eyes of a Skull!

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky; Red Skull
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Heritage of Hatred

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]; Adolf Hitler; Red Skull [George Maxon]; Josef Stalin; Georgi Malenkov; Nokolay Bulganin; Nikita Khruschev; Electro [Russian]; GS: Patriot; Spirit of '76; Captain America [William Burnside]; Bucky [Jack Monroe]
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Symbols

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Steve Rogers [Captain America]; Clarence "Biz" Duckett (introduction, death)
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Captain America & Friends

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bantam; The Falcon; Black Panther; Diamondback
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Captain America

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]
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Captain America

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]
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Marvel Age #128 Pinup

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[untitled]

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Nick Fury; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
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Internal Memorandum

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Blood Truce

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Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Nick Fury; Dum Dum Dugan; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Colonel Dmitri Panshin; Sonya Panshin (Dmitri's wife; dies); Sergei Panshin (Dmitri's son); Titanium Man [Boris Bullski]; Tom Gittes (villain); Nate Thurman (villain); Agent Orange [Roger Donovan T. Goshaw] (villain); Agent Goldman (villain)
Captain America and Nick Fury must stop a rogue faction of S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives from undermining a delicate international situation.
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Internal Memorandum

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Marvel Swimsuit Special #3 Pinup

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Epic Collection

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Captain America Fights for His Life!

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