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Comic Book: Captain America (1968 series)

What This Book is About:
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:
Dates
Apr 1968 to Aug 1996
1968
N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Captain America
Captain America

(Steve Rogers)
Falcon
Falcon

(Sam Wilson)
Diamondback
Diamondback

(Rachel Leighton)
Red Skull
Red Skull

(Johann Shmidt)
Plus: Peggy Carter.

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Total Indexed Comics: 356

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Captain America #100
3 stars

Captain America #100

April 1968
"This Monster Unmasked!"
Script: Stan Lee
Captain America, frozen in ice for twenty years, is worshipped as an idol by Eskimos until the Sub-Mariner hurls him into the sea. [...]
Captain America #101
4 stars

Captain America #101

May 1968
"When Wakes the Sleeper!"
Script: Stan Lee
On 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. [...]
Captain America #102
4 stars

Captain America #102

June 1968
"The Sleeper Strikes!"
Script: Stan Lee
Steve 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. [...]
Captain America #103
4 stars

Captain America #103

July 1968
"The Weakest Link!"
Script: Stan Lee
Steve 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. [...]
Captain America #104
4 stars

Captain America #104

August 1968
"Slave of the Skull!"
Script: Stan Lee
As 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. [...]
Captain America #105
3 stars

Captain America #105

September 1969
"In the Name of Batroc!"
Script: Stan Lee
Steve 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. [...]
Captain America #106
3 stars

Captain America #106

October 1968
"Cap Goes Wild!"
Script: Stan Lee
Captain 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. [...]
Captain America #107
3 stars

Captain America #107

November 1968
"The Haunted Past!"
Script: Stan Lee
Steve 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. [...]
Captain America #108
3 stars

Captain America #108

December 1968
"The Snares of the Trapster!"
Script: Stan Lee
As 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. [...]
Captain America #109
3 stars

Captain America #109

January 1969
"The Hero That Was!"
Script: Stan Lee
Back 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. [...]
Captain America #110
3 stars

Captain America #110

February 1969
"No Longer Alone"
Script: Stan Lee
A 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. [...]
Captain America #111
3 stars

Captain America #111

March 1969
"Tomorrow You Live, Tonight I Die!"
Script: Stan Lee
Steve 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! [...]
Captain America #112
3 stars

Captain America #112

April 1969
"Lest We Forget!"
Script: Stan Lee
As the report that Captain America is dead, slain by his foes at Hydra, sweeps the nation, Iron Man reviews his friend’s Avengers file. [...]
Captain America #113
3 stars

Captain America #113

May 1969
"The Strange Death of Captain America"
Script: Stan Lee
Watching a television report on the death of Captain America, Madame Hydra rejoices in her great victory and celebrates by burning his Hydra dossier. [...]
Captain America #114
3 stars

Captain America #114

June 1969
"The Man Behind the Mask!"
Script: Stan Lee
Steve Rogers walks the streets of New York, his mind in a turmoil. [...]
Captain America #115
3 stars

Captain America #115

July 1969
"Now Begins the Nightmare!"
Script: Stan Lee
The 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. [...]
Captain America #116
3 stars

Captain America #116

August 1969
"Far Worse Than Death!"
Script: Stan Lee
The 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. [...]
Captain America #117
3 stars

Captain America #117

September 1969
"The Coming of…the Falcon!"
Script: Stan Lee
Captain America, trapped in the Red Skull’s body, is miraculously teleported to the isle of the Exiles by the power of the Cosmic Cube. [...]
Captain America #118
3 stars

Captain America #118

October 1969
"The Falcon Fights On!"
Script: Stan Lee
The 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. [...]
Captain America #119
3 stars

Captain America #119

November 1969
"Now Falls the Skull!"
Script: Stan Lee
The 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. [...]
Captain America #120
3 stars

Captain America #120

December 1969
"Crack-Up on Campus!"
Script: Stan Lee
Back 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. [...]
Captain America #121
5 stars

Captain America #121

January 1970
"The Coming of…the Man-Brute!"
Script: Stan Lee
Professor 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. [...]
Captain America #122
3 stars

Captain America #122

February 1970
"The Sting of the Scorpion!"
Script: Stan Lee
A 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. [...]
Captain America #123
3 stars

Captain America #123

March 1970
"Suprema, Deadliest of the Species!"
Script: Stan Lee
At 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. [...]
Captain America #124
3 stars

Captain America #124

April 1970
"Mission: Stop the Cyborg!"
Script: Stan Lee
Captain 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. [...]