Captain America
#159
[Regular Edition]
(March 1973)
Marvel,
1968 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1972-12-05
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved By the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #91, November 1972.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in Turning Point!
Captain America and the Falcon / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hang tough, Cap!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Redwing; Plant Man; Porcupine; Eel [Leopold Stryke]
- Reprints
in 
in Indexer Notes
Possible Sal Buscema inks per Nick Caputo, August 2012. Nick suspects there may be some touch ups on Cap's face by Roussos.
![Cover Thumbnail for Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series) #159 [Regular Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/20/w200/20361.jpg?9164216606669236054)
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Turning Point
Captain America and the Falcon / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Steve Englehart (credited)
- Pencils
- Sal Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- John Verpoorten (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg (credited as Stan G.)
- Letters
- Ann Scotto [as A. Scotto] (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You are the reader, and you rest confident that the...
- Feature Logo
Captain America and The Falcon- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Cowled Commander; Viper [Jordan Stryke]; Porcupine; Scarecrow; Eel [Leopold Stryke]; Plantman
- Reprints
-
in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #19 ([Mars 1973]) -
in Captain America (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #13 - Le Faucon et la Vipère (1er trimestre 1981) - in Captain America : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2011 series) #1973 (février 2017)
-
Four or Five Phenomenal Flashes, Fitfully Fashioned to Fight Lethargy!
Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Let's Rap with Cap [Captain America] / letters page / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Special night-before-Christmas message - from us to you!
- Feature Logo
Let's Rap with Cap
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
- Script
- R. C. Le Crow (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Average no. copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 349,714; single issue nearest to filing date: 325,264.
Editing
This Issue is currently being edited by
Dwayne Best
(since 2023-12-03,
last edit 2023-12-03)
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Turning Point!
Captain America and the Falcon -
1.
Turning Point
Captain America and the Falcon -
2.
Four or Five Phenomenal Flashes, Fitfully Fashioned to Fight Lethargy!
Bullpen Bulletins -
3.
["Special night-before-Christmas message - from us to you!"]
Let's Rap with Cap [Captain America] -
4.
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Del Gruber
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Mark Sangster
- Ramon Schenk
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