Captain America #257 [Direct]
(May 1981)

Marvel, 1968 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Volume
1
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Bob Budiansky (credited) (assistant editor); Jim Salicrup (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

In London Lurks... The Hulk! ...and Wait Till You See the Gruesome Gamma-Droid! (Table of Contents)

Captain America / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Al Milgrom (signed as Milgrom)
Inks
Al Milgrom (signed as Milgrom)
Colors
?
Letters
Irv Watanabe
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series) #257 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Captain America (1968 series) #257 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Captain America (1968 series) #257 [British]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

Deadly Anniversary! (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain America / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Mike W. Barr (credited)
Pencils
Lee Elias (credited)
Inks
Joe Rubinstein (credited as Many Hands) (pages 1 [partial], 3 (panel 1, 2 [partial], 5 [panel 3-6 partial], 6 [panel 1,2 partial], 7, 10 [1,2,4,6 partial], 14,15 [Cap figure]); Frank Springer ? (credited as Many Hands) (page 2); Frank Giacoia (credited as Many Hands); Mike Esposito (credited as Many Hand) (pages 16-22); ? [as Many Hands]
Colors
Bob Sharen (credited as Sharen); Ed Hannigan (credited as Hannigan)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited) (pages 1, 3-15); Jean Simek (pages 2, 16-22, uncredited)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Bucky Barnes (flashback) (cameo); Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Derek; Nancy; Master of Matrix Eight (villain, introduction, death); Gammadroid (villain, introduction, death)
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints
Keywords
Adhesive X; United Kingdom

Indexer Notes

Inker and letterer credits added 2005 by Steven Tice.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Letters to the Living Legend / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Feature Logo
Letters to the Living Legend
Genre
superhero

Indexer Notes

Letters from Stu Krull, Mike Ruggiero, Jim Sherlock, Alan Olinger, Afrit, Mike Cicerone. Also includes The Mighty Marvel Checklist!

Charlie America's Family Album! (Table of Contents: 3)

Charlie America / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Marie Severin ?
Pencils
Marie Severin
Inks
Marie Severin
Colors
?
Letters
Marie Severin
Genre
satire-parody
Reprints

How To Be a Comic Book Artist! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Marie Severin
Pencils
Marie Severin
Inks
Marie Severin
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Here it is!
Genre
humor
Reprints

The Thing in "Earthly Delights" (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Hostess Fruit Pies; The Thing / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. In London Lurks... The Hulk! ...and Wait Till You See the Gruesome Gamma-Droid!
    Captain America
  2. 1. Deadly Anniversary!
    Captain America
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Letters to the Living Legend
  4. 3. Charlie America's Family Album!
    Charlie America
  5. 4. How To Be a Comic Book Artist!
  6. 5. The Thing in "Earthly Delights"
    Hostess Fruit Pies; The Thing
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Peter Croome
  • Del Gruber
  • Andrés Jiménez
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Terry Staats
  • Richard Thomson
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.