Captain America #161 [Regular Edition]
(May 1973)

Marvel, 1968 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1973-02-13
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved By the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #93, January 1973.
This issue has variants:

If a Soul Be Lost! (Table of Contents)

Captain America and the Falcon / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Sal Buscema
Inks
John Romita (sourced)
Colors
?
Letters
Annette Kawecki ?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Behold, my good Captain!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Dr. Faustus
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Previous indexer listed John Verpoorten as inker.

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...If He Loseth His Soul! (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain America and the Falcon / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Englehart (credited)
Pencils
Sal Buscema (credited)
Inks
John Verpoorten (credited)
Colors
Stan Goldberg (credited)
Letters
Artie Simek (credited)
Job Number
1316 Z
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Gone!
Feature Logo
Captain America and The Falcon
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Nick Fury; Leila Taylor; Rafe Michel; Harrison Carter (introduction); Amanda Carter (introduction); Dr. Faustus (villain); Redwing; Dr. Wolfgang; Peggy Carter (cameo; unidentified)
Synopsis
Cap and the Falcon agree to put their differences aside for the time being, and Sam agrees to help find the missing Sharon Carter, who has been kidnapped by Dr. Faustus.
Reprints
Keywords
psychiatry; SHIELD

Indexer Notes

Years later, Dr. Faustus's real name was revealed to be Johann Fennhoff.

204 pc. Revolutionary War Soldiers Set (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Revolutionary War Soldiers / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

FOOM! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Let's Rap with Cap [Captain America] / letters page / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Stan, Roy, Steve, Steve, and Sal, Marvel's created some pretty strange...
Feature Logo
Let's Rap with Cap

Indexer Notes

Letters from Samuel Edaps, (name withheld), Dave Karsken.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. If a Soul Be Lost!
    Captain America and the Falcon
  2. 1. ...If He Loseth His Soul!
    Captain America and the Falcon
  3. 2. 204 pc. Revolutionary War Soldiers Set
    Revolutionary War Soldiers
  4. 3. FOOM!
    Bullpen Bulletins
  5. 4. ["Dear Stan, Roy, Steve, Steve, and Sal, Marvel's created some pretty strange..."]
    Let's Rap with Cap [Captain America]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Del Gruber
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Steven Tice
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