The Cardstore - Cheektowaga NY

Recent picks from a visit to The Cardstore seeking out full color Steranko art......which I was happy to find, along with a couple of other books.

The Cardstore - Comics, Full line of Trading Cards and Gaming supplies. 
4016 Union Rd., Cheektowaga, NY 14225 (716) 713-1184 
Tell em JoTell sent ya... ...picked up the following issues, at a discount, upon my last visit.

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!