Captain America #258 [Direct]
(June 1981)

Marvel, 1968 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1981
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:

Blasted by Blockbuster! (Table of Contents)

Captain America / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mike Zeck (signed)
Inks
Mike Zeck (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Blockbuster [Fredric Woolrich]
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Blockbuster! (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain America / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont (credited) (plot, script pages 1-12); David Michelinie (credited) (script pages 13-22)
Pencils
Mike Zeck (credited)
Inks
Mike Zeck (credited)
Colors
Bob Sharen (credited as Sharen); Roger Slifer (credited as Slifer)
Letters
Jim Novak (credited as Novak)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bernie Rosenthal; Blockbuster [Fredric Woolrich] (villain, introduction); Anna Kappelbaum; Michael; Josh Cooper
Synopsis
Cap's date with Bernie is interrupted by a super-powered arsonist.
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Keywords
arson

[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 Jeff Vaughn, Paul Worthington, Jim Kennedy, Mike Sopp, Duke Lehman. Also includes The Might Marvel Checklist.

Iron Man in "The Charge of the Rhinos!" (Table of Contents: 3)

Hostess Twinkies; Iron Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Romita ?
Inks
Mike Esposito ?
Colors
?
Letters
Irv Watanabe
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Somewhere near Fort Knox.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Iron Man [Tony Stark]
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Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Blasted by Blockbuster!
    Captain America
  2. 1. Blockbuster!
    Captain America
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Letters to the Living Legend
  4. 3. Iron Man in "The Charge of the Rhinos!"
    Hostess Twinkies; Iron Man
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