Comic Book: Captain America (1968 series)
Description:
Captain America's flagship title. Continuing TALES OF SUSPENSE, this title ran for decades, establishing Cap as the Living Legend of World War 2 whose adventures continued into the present day as the nation's greatest hero.
Data Sheet:
Apr 1968 to Aug 1996
1968
N/A
Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
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Indexed Comics:
356
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April 1968"This Monster Unmasked!"
Script: Stan LeeCaptain America, frozen in ice for twenty years, is worshipped as an idol by Eskimos until the Sub-Mariner hurls him into the sea. [...]
May 1968"When Wakes the Sleeper!"
Script: Stan LeeOn a city street Captain America is engaged in battle with fugitive Nazi Werner von Krimm and his bodyguards. Nick Fury arrives and stuns Cap by apologizing to von Krimm and assuring him that he won't be bothered by any more costumed clowns. [...]
June 1968"The Sleeper Strikes!"
Script: Stan LeeSteve Rogers plans to stop the Sleeper armed only with the sonic key which he can't manage to work. Meanwhile the Red Skull has been rescued from the sea by his men and is on his way to the Island of the Exiles, his elite military force. [...]
July 1968"The Weakest Link!"
Script: Stan LeeSteve Rogers is on a dinner date with Sharon Carter (Agent 13) when armed thugs invade the club, shoot stun gas in Steve’s face, and carry off Sharon. [...]
August 1968"Slave of the Skull!"
Script: Stan LeeAs the story begins Captain America is engaged in battle with a team of dangerous foes, whom he defeats in a whirlwind of action. They are revealed to be SHIELD’s LMD androids, in a training workout for Cap. [...]
September 1969"In the Name of Batroc!"
Script: Stan LeeSteve Rogers is treated to a special viewing of a documentary about Captain America’s wartime exploits by the producers, who are hoping he will agree the narrate it. [...]
October 1968"Cap Goes Wild!"
Script: Stan LeeCaptain America sees a band of costumed gunmen leaving SHIELD headquarters with a stolen strongbox. Cap defeats them in a street melee but not before they pass the strongbox to their confederates in a helicopter. [...]
November 1968"The Haunted Past!"
Script: Stan LeeSteve Rogers has a terrifying nightmare that Captain America is fighting a cadre of Nazi monsters only to end up at Bucky’s grave, with the ghost of his late partner haunting him for his failure. On awakening he makes an appointment with Dr. Faustus, a psychiatrist he met a month earlier. [...]
December 1968"The Snares of the Trapster!"
Script: Stan LeeAs the story opens, Captain America is enjoying a workout designed by Tony Stark for SHIELD: dodging and swatting deadly missiles. His SHIELD keeper appears with an assignment … which Cap doesn't want to take, since he wants a life of his own instead of being on call all the time. [...]
January 1969"The Hero That Was!"
Script: Stan LeeBack in wartime, Captain America and Bucky fight their way into a fortress heavily armed with robot guns to plant an electro-bomb to take out the entire mechanism. [...]
February 1969"No Longer Alone"
Script: Stan LeeA lonely, dejected Steve Rogers, walking the streets late at night, stops to look at a huge poster of Captain America when suddenly the Hulk smashes through the wall, pursued by the US Army. Steve changes into his Cap costume and arrives in time to see the Hulk blasted with an ionic energy cannon. [...]
March 1969"Tomorrow You Live, Tonight I Die!"
Script: Stan LeeSteve Rogers is called to a late night meeting with Nick Fury at a penny arcade. While waiting, he tries out a fortune-telling machine and receives the ominous message, “Tomorrow you live, tonight I die! [...]
April 1969"Lest We Forget!"
Script: Stan LeeAs the report that Captain America is dead, slain by his foes at Hydra, sweeps the nation, Iron Man reviews his friend’s Avengers file. [...]
May 1969"The Strange Death of Captain America"
Script: Stan LeeWatching a television report on the death of Captain America, Madame Hydra rejoices in her great victory and celebrates by burning his Hydra dossier. [...]
June 1969"The Man Behind the Mask!"
Script: Stan LeeSteve Rogers walks the streets of New York, his mind in a turmoil. [...]
July 1969"Now Begins the Nightmare!"
Script: Stan LeeThe Red Skull has recovered the Cosmic Cube and now controls the fate of the world. He changes the stunned Steve Rogers into his Captain America gear and demands that the hero pay homage to him. Cap instead leaps up and punches the Skull, only to find the figure before him is an illusion. [...]
August 1969"Far Worse Than Death!"
Script: Stan LeeThe Red Skull has used the power of the Cosmic Cube to switch bodies with Captain America, fooling even Sharon Carter. The transformed Cap pleads with her to listen but the Red Skull simply escorts her from the room. [...]
September 1969"The Coming of…the Falcon!"
Script: Stan LeeCaptain America, trapped in the Red Skull’s body, is miraculously teleported to the isle of the Exiles by the power of the Cosmic Cube. [...]
October 1969"The Falcon Fights On!"
Script: Stan LeeThe Red Skull, in Captain America’s body, observes events on the isle of the Exiles with a growing irritation that his minions have still not captured Cap in the Red Skull’s body. [...]
November 1969"Now Falls the Skull!"
Script: Stan LeeThe Red Skull realizes that it would be far more fitting to eliminate Captain America himself, so with the power of the Cosmic Cube, he reassumes his own form and teleports himself to Adolf Hitler’s former retreat at Berchtesgaden. [...]
December 1969"Crack-Up on Campus!"
Script: Stan LeeBack in New York after their adventure against the Red Skull, Captain America and the Falcon bid a fond farewell to one another. Cap wants to pick up the threads of his tangled life once more so he heads to SHIELD headquarters to find Sharon Carter. [...]
January 1970"The Coming of…the Man-Brute!"
Script: Stan LeeProfessor Silas X. Cragg has a mad, fanatical obsession with Captain America, seeing him everywhere he looks. After researching all that is known of Cap’s origin at the library, he proceeds with his plan to destroy the Star-Spangled Avenger. [...]
February 1970"The Sting of the Scorpion!"
Script: Stan LeeA brooding Captain America walks the streets, weary of his endless battle against evil and the changing attitudes of his country, now cynical about patriotism. He goes home to slam down his shield, pull off his mask and wonder where he can find his soul. [...]
March 1970"Suprema, Deadliest of the Species!"
Script: Stan LeeAt the hidden headquarters of Suprema, mysterious mistress of menace, the lady mastermind tells her assembled gang that the time has come to strike. When a minion questions her plans to become Queen of Crime, she silences him with a karate chop to the head and continues. [...]
April 1970"Mission: Stop the Cyborg!"
Script: Stan LeeCaptain America is attacked in an alley by two A.I.M. assassins. He fights them off easily and they flee, though their dropped weapons dissolve when Cap tries to recover one for SHIELD to study. At A.I.M. [...]
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