Marvel Milestone Edition: Captain America

    (Marvel, 1995)
™ and ©1995 Marvel Characters, Inc.

This replica edition re-presents 46 pages of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, delivering the first and most successful of their many patriotic heroes for a company then known as Timely Comics. Simon and Kirby were still a decade off their peak in 1941, but even so purveyors of superior action comics. Captain America’s often retold origin sequence is but one of four slam-bang stories, one of them introducing the Red Skull, who’s patently not the Red Skull who was feared throughout the Marvel Universe in later years. Simon and Kirby must have been confident they had a winner, as they’re offering readers the chance to join the Captain America Sentinels of Liberty from the first issue.

The extra pages common in comics of the 1940s price this Milestone edition at a dollar more than the rest of the line, but it’s only the Captain America stories that are reprinted. To see the likes of Hurricane and Tug, also by Simon and Kirby, you’ll have to buy the original.
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