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dochermes

Ted White's 1968 CAPTAIN AMERICA novel

Jan 17, 2015 13:12

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zathras_ix January 17 2015, 22:57:11 UTC

The cover art was done by Peter Caras, who later did the iconic Bantam cover for The Avenger No. 1 "Justice, Inc." (Nov 1972).

In Timely-Atlas-Comics@yahoogroups.com, Ted White wrote:

It's an oft-told story, but probably more appropriate to this list than most ( ... )

dochermes January 18 2015, 02:13:11 UTC

Thanks so much. Hearing Ted White's reminiscence is priceless. I still have his PHOENIX PRIME books here somewhere...

pronker January 18 2015, 00:21:23 UTC

What an interesting take on Cap - and Monk? Wow. The idea of reinforced bones. Just wow.

I know I had the Avengers book, but couldn't for the life of me tell anything about the plot today, but the cover stands out in memory, the brightly clad heroes on a black *or very dark* background.

Now the Batman book was something else, that was neat! Near death by drowning for the Dynamic Duo, various other villains teaming up, Catwoman emoting when she thinks Batman is dead ...

dochermes January 18 2015, 02:13:56 UTC

THE AVENGERS VS THE EARTH-WRECKER was amazingly poor, almost if deliberately so. Whew. *shudders*

pronker January 18 2015, 05:35:17 UTC

'Earth-Wrecker' was it! And Batman's book was 'Batman vs. 3 Villains of Doom'??

zathras_ix January 18 2015, 23:00:13 UTC

Cap's sidearm appears to have been inspired by the real-life H&K MP4A3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5

One of the bits that I loved about this story was that Cap tooled around in VW Beetle powered by a nearly-silent supercharged V8 engine that was geared to a mechanism that reproduced the sound of the standard 53-HP (39 kW) VW engine, right down its distinctive timing chain.

Herbie the War Bug?