{"id":16779,"date":"2017-05-06T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=16779"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:07:41","slug":"captain-america-masterworks-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2017\/05\/06\/captain-america-masterworks-volume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain America Masterworks volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Stan Lee<\/strong>, Roy Thomas<\/strong>, Jack Kirby<\/strong>, John Romita Sr.<\/strong>, Gil Kane, Jack Sparling <\/strong>& various (Marvel)
\nISBN: 978-0-7851-1785-8 (HB)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-0-7851-5931-5(TPB)<\/p>\n

After his resurrection in Avengers<\/strong> #4 (March 1964), Captain America<\/strong> grew in popularity and quickly won his own solo feature, sharing Tales of Suspense<\/strong> with former teammate Iron Man <\/strong>(beginning with #59, cover-dated November 1964).<\/p>\n

Scripted by Stan Lee and with the astoundingly prolific Jack Kirby either pencilling or laying out each action-packed episode, the series grew in standing and stature until it became must-read entertainment for most comics fans.<\/p>\n

This second Masterworks compilation re-presents ToS<\/strong> #82-99 (October 1966 to March 1969) and concludes with Captain America<\/strong> #100 as the Star-Spangled Stalwart took the next big step and returned to solo stardom in the April cover-dated first issue.<\/p>\n

The dynamic dramas contained herein signalled closer links with parallel tales in other titles. Thus, with subversive science scoundrels Advanced Idea Mechanics<\/em> defeated by S.H.I.E.L.D. in Strange Tales<\/strong> ‘The Maddening Mystery of the Inconceivable Adaptoid!’<\/em> pitted Cap against one last unsupervised experiment as A.I.M.’s artificial life-form – capable of becoming an exact duplicate of its victim – stalked Cap in a tale of vicious psychological warfare. Sadly, even masterfully manufactured mechanoids are apt to err and ‘Enter\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The Tumbler!’<\/em> (inked by Dick Ayers) saw a presumptuous wannabe attack the robot after it assumed the identity of our hero before ‘The Super-Adaptoid!’<\/em> completed an epic of breathtaking suspense and drama as the real McCoy fought back and overcame everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Such eccentric cross-continuity capers would carry the company to market dominance in a few short years and become not the exception but the norm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

‘The Blitzkrieg of Batroc!’<\/em> and ‘The Secret!’<\/em> returned to the early minimum-plot, all-action, overwhelming-odds yarns whilst ‘Wanted: Captain America’<\/em> (by Roy Thomas, Jack Sparling & Joe Sinnott) offered a lacklustre interval involving a frame-up before Gil Kane took his first run on the character with ‘If Bucky Lives\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6!’<\/em>, ‘Back from the Dead!’<\/em>, ‘\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And Men Shall Call Him Traitor!’<\/em> and ‘The Last Defeat!’<\/em> (TOS<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0#88-91, with the last two inked by Sinnott): a superb thriller of blackmail and betrayal starring the Red Skull. The fascist felon had baited a trap with a robotic facsimile of Cap’s dead partner, triggered it with super-hirelings Power Man<\/em> and the Swordsman<\/em> and then blackmailed the Star-Spangled Sentinel into betraying his country and stealing an atomic submarine\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Kirby & Sinnott were back for ‘Before My Eyes Nick Fury Died!’<\/em>, ‘Into the Jaws of\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 AIM!’<\/em> and ‘If This Be\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Modok!’<\/em> as the Champion of Liberty fought a giant brain-being manufactured purely for killing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

In rapid succession ‘A Time to Die\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 A Time to Live’<\/em> and ‘To Be Reborn!’ <\/em>see the hero retire and reveal his secret identity, only to jump straight back into the saddle with S.H.I.E.L.D. for #97’s ‘And So It Begins\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6’<\/em> a four-part epic which concluded in the aforementioned issue #100, with which number Tales of Suspense<\/strong> became simply Captain America<\/strong>. Guest starring the Black Panther, it described the apparent return of long-dead Baron Zemo<\/em> utilising an orbiting Death Ray to scourge Africa and threaten the world.<\/p>\n

‘The Claws of the Panther!’<\/em> was inked by both Sinnott and the great Syd Shores – who would continue for the next year as regular inker – beginning with ‘The Man Who Lived Twice!’<\/em>, whilst the hundredth issue used the extra page-length to retell the origin before concluding a superb thriller with ‘This Monster Unmasked!’<\/em><\/p>\n

Rounding out this patriotic bonanza is a gallery of original art pages by Kirby and Kane plus uncorrected proofs showing last-minute editorial alterations to the priceless published pearls of wonder.
\n\u00c2\u00a9 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 2016 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Jack Kirby, John Romita Sr., Gil Kane, Jack Sparling & various (Marvel) ISBN: 978-0-7851-1785-8 (HB)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-0-7851-5931-5(TPB) After his resurrection in Avengers #4 (March 1964), Captain America grew in popularity and quickly won his own solo feature, sharing Tales of Suspense with former teammate Iron Man (beginning with #59, cover-dated November … <\/p>\n

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