Tales Of Suspense, Captain America, To Serve and Protect, The Bloodstone Hunt, Two Americas, The Chosen, The Korvac Saga

WWE super hero wanna be page, I can picture John Cena as Captain America and I think The Rock would be a super great Falcon. The Rock would have to wear the Falcon's 1st costume though. The green costume...

...or the red costume.

I found this Cap drawing in an old tattoo mag, I thought it was cool enough to share.

Tales Of Suspense #1 from January of '59.

Front and back cover of Captain America Marvel Masterworks Edition. 
Collecting Tales Of Suspense #'s 59-81.

Tales Of Suspense #62 which I picked up the Comic Book Cafe recently. Here's a pic of the inside of the Comic Book Cafe, for more info goto http://www.saycheesepizza.com/ ... tell 'em Joe Tell sent ya!

Marvel reprinted Tales Of Suspense in the 70's in Marvel Double Feature. Here's Tales Of Suspense 82/Marvel Double Feature #6.

Tales Of Suspense features the Silver Age return of Captain America. Captain America was originally featured onscreen in '43. Here's a still frame picture from the '43 Captain America Republic serials. I wanted to include this classic black and white shot from '43.

Tales Of Suspense #59 cover and the first splash page from #59.

Tales Of Suspense #69 featured a spectacular battle between Iron Man and Titanium Man.

Captain America Marvel Masterworks is a full color glossy collection of the Captain America stories from the Tales Of Suspense comic books #'s 59-81, a series in which Cap shared with Iron Man. This is classic Marvel stuff from 1964-1966. Jack Kirby and Chic Stone are my favorite artist/inker team of all time.

Captain America "Two Americas" Eisner award winning graphic novel.
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Above is a Captain America self-titled graphic novel from 2012. The art and story are outstanding. You can find graphic novels at any major bookstore and quality comic book shops. I've recently found out that my local library offers graphic novels and of course you can find and purchase graphic novels online through links from this blog and sites like amazon.com and Marvel Comics online.

Below Captain America Reborn graphic novel cover from 2010.

The Marvel Comics Group Proudly Presents:

The Special 40th Anniversary Issue

Captain America Comics

Created by Joe Simon And Jack Kirby

3/'81 issue with Art by John Byrne

From Dan the Man's private collection. Thank You Dan!

Special Triple-Sized 50th Anniversary Issue! 1941-1991

To Serve and Protect, picked this full color, glossy graphic novel up at a library sale for practically nothing, great reading on the cheap, can't beat that!

Captain America, Captain America and The Falcon, Captain America vs. The Red Skull, The Falcon

Captain America And The Falcon

This Way For Action!

On top is a late 70's issue I picked up from Wurlitzer Books for $1...Art and Cover by Jack Kirby.
2nd from top is a '83 solo Falcon series comic.

Captain America vs. The Red Skull graphic novel cover from 2011. This cover is taken directly from Tales Of Suspense #80 from 1966. Notice the swastika in the cosmic cube rays.

This spooky cover is from 1990, this issue features a story about The Red Skull who was the victim of a live burial at the hands of Magneto. The Red Skull is rescued by the villians Crossbones and Mother Night. Cap seeks out Skull House to safeguard all of the Skull's paraphernalia from a Skull imposter only to meet up with the recently rescued Red Skull himself. This issue also features Diamondback on the cover.

This is the back cover of the recently released Captain America vs. The Red Skull graphic novel.

This art originally appeared on the cover of Captain America #263 from 1981.

Guess Who?...This cover is from 1968 when Cap used to pal around with The Falcon, who happened to be the first black superhero to appear in mainstream comics.

None other than, The Red Skull!

It all started way back in 1941, Captain America "Sentinel Of Our Shores" has always been associated w/WWII. The Red Skull also first appeared in Cap #1 as an agent of death who worked as a sabotuer for Nazi Germany. The Red Skull's secret identity was George Maxon who dies at the end of this issue. Maxon was an agent for the real Red Skull, Johann Schmidt who in turn worked for Hitler.
This post is dedicated to my son Joey. I took Joey to see the Captain America movie the first day it came out.

Above is the front cover of a way cool Captain America poster book/comic from '04 that was unopened until Dan opened it for the first time and let me scan it for this comic book blog. I would scan some of the inside art but I would have to crease the pages damaging the mint condition of the comic. The cover is good enough for me. Thanks Dan!

Tales Of Suspense 62 - Marvel Comics

Latest acquisition for my comic collection. Picked this up at the Comic Book Cafe...for more info on the Comic Book Cafe goto http://www.saycheesepizza.com/

 "The Origin of the Mandarin!"
Continuing from last issue... Iron Man is the prisoner of his arch-foe the Mandarin, who has decided to tell his life story to his greatest foe before destroying him forever.
Explaining that his family directly descends from Genghis Khan, he was the child of a Chinese man and a Caucasian woman. His father dying shortly after his birth, he was left in the care of his father's sister, who was jealous of her brother's wealth. She decided to raise the boy to hate the world, and so the child that became the Mandarin became a bitter and angry person, especially when the Chinese army took away their home and riches. Wandering alone, the Mandarin decided to travel into the Valley of the Spirits, a sacred place all feared.

Finding the remains of a long dead dragon, the Mandarin stumbled upon an ancient space ship belonging to the Axonn-Karr, a dragon like race that came to Earth centuries ago. Using their technology to increase his knowledge, he took the power source of the ship and converted it into his ten power rings and used their power to establish his kingdom.

Finishing his story, the Mandarin then explains the device that Iron Man is strapped too will spin Iron Man to death, while he initiates his next plan: having built a rocket for the Chinese government, the Mandarin plans to initiate World War 3 and then take over the world in its aftermath. Telling all this, the Mandarin leaves Iron Man to perish.

Breaking loose of the Mandarin's trap, Iron Man then stops the rocket from hitting it's target by redirecting it back at the Chinese military, leaving them to believe that the Mandarin had betrayed them. Fleeing, the Mandarin is stopped by Iron Man and the two end up in a pitched battle until the Chinese military can track their location, forcing the Mandarin and Iron Man to flee their separate ways. Iron Man later catches a ride home aboard a US Air Force jet.

 "Break-Out in Cell Block 10!"
Putting on a demonstration of his acrobatic abilities for the warden of a prison, Captain America soon finds out that it's all a trap and that the warden and his staff have actually been locked up in cell block 10 and the inmates have taken their place. Stealing Captain America's shield and locking him up with the warden, Captain America breaks out of his cell and fights off the prisoners who are trying to use it to open the magnetically sealed front gate of the prison.
Defeating the break-outs leader, Cap takes back his shield and the warden and his guards take back control of the prison. Later Captain America explains that the crooks were probably trying to use his shield to open the door because it once had magnetic devices built into it they figured might be able to open the door, but that these devices he had recently removed them from his shield. Asking what the code word to open the door was, he's told "Captain America."

Strange Tales 114

Strange Tales 144 - Nov. '63

The Human Torch Meets..."Captain America" - The Human Torch is tricked once again by an old personal enemy, the 'Acrobat'. Before the real Captain America had been discovered in the ice, the bank robber turns his skills and riches into impersonating him. Johnny is fooled humiliated many times while the man goes on a rampage. However, Johnny creates a fire cage, finally capturing the man.

Marvel Triple Action, Marvel Comics Group

FILMFAXplus, The Magazine Of Unusual Film, Television and Retro Pop Culture

For those of you out there in blogworld that aren't familiar with the magazine Filmfax plus, It's a great, entertaining magazine, jam packed with tons of pop culture stuff. Being a wrestling fan I couldn't resist picking this issue up.This particular issue features articles on Mil Mascaras, The Flash, collectible DC comics action figures, Bela Lugosi and Robert Dunham from Godzilla vs. Megalon, Mothra and many other classic B-movies.

I'm a sucker for this kinda stuff and I always glance through the newest issue of Filmfax every time I goto Barnes and Nobles bookstore.
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A visit to Queen City Bookstore #1

DC Comics The New 52! promo card.

1968 issue when Gwen Stacy was still alive...

1973 reader issue reprinting a 1966 Thor issue inside. Jack Kirby art.

Free Avengers comic available now at Queen City Bookstore.

Yes, even hot, married TV sitcom stars dig comic books. Here's Megan Mullaly from the TV shows Will & Grace and Breaking In reading a classic Love, Love, Love comic. I ripped this pic out of a magazine from the doctor's office the same day I picked up all the comics in this blogpiece.

Queen City biz card...

Checkerboard Superboy reader issue from 12/66.

yet another Superboy checkerboard from 7/66.

"Super" collectible Captain America and Iron Man 2 napkins, Thanks Emil!

Night Of The Owls Batman promo card.

1969 Namor vs. The Human Torch issue!

1974 The Tomb Of Dracula reader issue.

All the comics in this blog piece were purchased from Queen City Bookstore.