True Believers: Kirby 100th - Captain America #1 [SDCC 2017]

(October 2017)

Introduction (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jeph Loeb

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Also contains the indicia.

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

Captain America / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Adolf Hitler

Reprints

• from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #1 (March 1941)

Case No. 1. Meet Captain America (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain America / comic story / 7.5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Al Liederman

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers] (introduction, origin); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (introduction); President Franklin D. Roosevelt; General Phillips (unnamed, introduction); J. Arthur Grover [J. Edgar Hoover]; Agent X-13 (introduction); Professor Reinstein (introduction, dies); Heinz Kruger (unnamed, introduction, dies)

Synopsis

The Army is looking for a solution to the threat the Axis Powers pose to the people of America, and they discover the secret answer to their prayers: a super-soldier serum that will create an army of super soldiers! However, only one man receives the serum before it and its creator are destroyed: Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America!

Reprints

• from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #1 (March 1941)

[Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Captain America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[Case No. 2] (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain America / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Pencils

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Inks

Joe Simon

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Betty Ross (introduction; later named Betsy Ross); Sando [Von Krantz] (introduction, villain); Omar (introduction)

Synopsis

Captain America and Bucky set out to solve the riddle of the connection between a wave of sabotage sweeping the U.S. defense industries and a strange little man who predicted it would happen.

Reprints

• from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #1 (March 1941)

Celebrating Kirby 100th (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Origin of Captain America! (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain America; Iron Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (Captain America); Don Heck (Iron-Man)

Inks

Sol Brodsky (Captain America); Dick Ayers (Iron-Man)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Editing

Stan Lee (original editor)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Phantom [Dr. Birch]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Agent R (introduction; called Agent X-13 in original telling of origin story, "Captain America Comics" #1, March 1941)

Reprints

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #63 (March 1965)

The Origin of Captain America! (Table of Contents: 8)

Captain America / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee; Jack Kirby (co-plot)

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Frank Giacoia (credited as Frank Ray)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

Artie Simek

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; General Phillips; Dr. Anderson (introduction); Agent R [Cynthia Glass] (security, "Project Rebirth"); Dr. Erskine (inventor, super-soldier formula, dies); Heinz Kruger (Nazi spy, dies); Sarge [Sgt. Duffy] (unnamed, Camp Lehigh instructor)

Synopsis

During World War Two, Roosevelt institutes "Project Rebirth." Erskine gives Rogers the "Super-soldier serum," which turns him into a virtual superman. A Nazi spy murders Erskine before he can create an army of men like Rogers, and is killed when he runs headlong into some machinery. Rogers becomes Captain America, and begins a career of smashing spy rings and the like. He goes undercover as a private at Camp Lehigh and befriends orphan mascot Bucky Barnes. When Bucky discovers his secret, he becomes Cap's partner. In their first adventure together, they stop saboteurs and a German sub.

Reprints

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #63 (March 1965)

Indexer Notes

Retelling of the story by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #1 (March 1941). Professor Reinstein from the original version renamed Dr. Erskine here.

Celebrating Jack Kirby 100th (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)