Captain America #5 [Direct Edition]
(May 1998)

Marvel, 1998 Series
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Volume
3
Price
1.99 USD; 2.80 CAD
Pages
38
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1998-03-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics
Barcode
759606044559 00511
Editing
Matt Idelson (editor); Paul Tutrone (assistant editor); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

The Living Legend Is Mad-- --And Hydra's Going to Pay the Price! (Table of Contents)

Captain America / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ron Garney
Inks
Ron Garney
Colors
?
Letters
Todd Klein
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Thor
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Gatefold Marvel Universe Guide front cover.

Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.

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Power And Glory, Chapter One: Credibility Gap (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Mark Waid
Pencils
Ron Garney
Inks
John Beatty; Andy Smith
Colors
Joe Rosas
Letters
John Costanza
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Thor; Dum Dum Dugan; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Sensational Hydra [a Skrull; also as Captain America] (villain); Hydra (villains); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (cameo); Scarlet Witch (cameo); Gordon Winchester (cameo); Roger Ramo (cameo); Bob McKnight (cameo); Sue Harvey (cameo)
Synopsis
When Cap and the Avengers begin to take out Hydra cells, the Sensational Hydra takes hostages and calls Cap out. Captain America battles Hydra agents, some of whom turn out to be Skrulls, and is captured. The Sensational Hydra shape shifts into a duplicate of Cap and heads out to mess up his life.
Reprints

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

American Graffiti / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
Comicraft; typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from P. M. M. Todd, Scot W. Myers, Robert Moraes

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Living Legend Is Mad-- --And Hydra's Going to Pay the Price!
    Captain America
  2. 1. Power And Glory, Chapter One: Credibility Gap
    Captain America
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    American Graffiti
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