Captain America #163 [Regular Edition]
(July 1973)

Marvel, 1968 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1973-04-10
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 #95, March 1973.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

The Serpent Squad! (Table of Contents)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Sal Buscema
Inks
Sal Buscema ?; John Verpoorten ?
Colors
?
Letters
John Costanza
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Too bad you injured your hands, shield-slinger!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Serpent Squad [Cobra; Eel [Leopold Stryke]; Viper [Jordan Stryke]]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Possible Sal Buscema inks per Nick Caputo, August 2012.

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Beware of Serpents (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Steve Englehart (credited as Stainless Steve Englehart)
Pencils
Sal Buscema (credited)
Inks
John Verpoorten (credited); Tony Mortellaro ?
Colors
Petra Goldberg (credited)
Letters
Charlotte Jetter (credited); Gaspar Saladino (page 1)
Job Number
1398-Z
First Line of Dialogue or Text
It's been a quiet morning at New York's famed Sing Sing Prison -- but in...
Feature Logo
Captain America and The Falcon
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Serpent Squad [Cobra; Eel [Leopold Stryke]; Viper [Jordan Stryke]]; Dave Cox (Introduction)
Reprints

Diet-Sized Droplets of Dubious Distinction! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 0.5 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Serpent Squad!
    Captain America and the Falcon
  2. 1. Beware of Serpents
    Captain America and the Falcon
  3. 2. Diet-Sized Droplets of Dubious Distinction!
    Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Del Gruber
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
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