Saturday, October 22, 2011

Captain America: Tales of Suspense #59-62

Marvel resurrected Captain America in the 1960s. The company rolled out Cap in solo adventures in Tales of Suspense. In those early adventures, he shared the comic with Iron Man. Each character got his own solo story. As a result, the stories were compact and half the size of a normal issue. The following is a recap of his first four appearance.

Tales of Suspense #59: Cap hangs out in the Avengers mansion. Some bad guys decide to break in and challenge the superhero believing he'd be a pushover since he did not have the same powers as his teammates. Cap defeats the gang relatively easily. The issue was clearly meant to introduce Cap and focused on the action. The issue also hinted at Cap's WWII past and sadness he experienced when looking back.

Tales of Suspense #60: Baron Zemo is introduced. The Baron sends a group of underlings to capture Captain America. They fail and Cap taunts Zemo in his South American lair.

Tales of Suspense #61: Cap goes to Vietnam to rescue a downed pilot. The main villain is a communist general/sumo wrestler. I thought Sumos were Japanese and not Vietnamese.

Tales of Suspense #62: A group of prisoners commit a jailbreak and Cap stops them.

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