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Hello Everyone,
It took me 27 yrs but I just got into Comics and Collecting comics.
I want to read ALL the Captain America stories. ALL OF THEM. from 1-whatever number its at now.
Does anyone have a checklist (or know where I can find one) on the CA. stories.
thank you,
Bob
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Here is a quick cheat sheet.
Not complete
Cap’s 1940s Appearances:
Captain America Comics #1-73
Captain America’s Weird Tales #74 # 75
All-Winners Comics #1-19, 21
All-Winners Comics #1 (2nd series)
Marvel Mystery Comics #80-84, 86-92
USA Comics #6-17
All-Select Comics #1-10
Blonde Phantom Comics #16
Human Torch Comics #35
Sub-Mariner Comics #31
Guest appearances in Young Allies
Cap’s 1950s Appearances:
Captain America Comics #76-78
Young Men #24-28
Men’s Adventures #27 & 28
Fighting American (not really Cap but a parody knock off)
Cap’s Silver age Appearances in the 1960s:
Strange Tales #114
Avengers #4-present
Tales of Suspense #58-#99
Captain America #100-present
Fantasy Masterpieces
Cap’s 1970s Appearances:
Captain America
Captain America & the Falcon (same as Cap title)
Avengers
Invaders
Marvel Super action
Captain America's Bicentennial Battles oversized one shot
Captain America Annuals
Guest appearances in specific issues....
Marvel Two-in-One
Marvel Team-Up
Iron Fist
Marvel Triple Action
What If?
Cap's 1980s Appearances:
Captain America
Avengers
Captain America Annuals
Guest appearances in...
Marvel Fanfare
Daredevil
Cap's 1990s Appearances:
Captain America
Avengers
Adventures of Captain America
Sentinel of Liberty
Captain America Annuals
Appearances...
Super Soldier Amalgam one shot
Cap’s 2000 Appearances:
Captain America
The Ultimates
The Avengers
Captain America Annuals
Mini series.....
Captain America & the Falcon
Captain America: Dead Man Walking
Captain America: What Price Glory?
Captain America: The Chosen
Captain America: Theater of War
Captain America: Reborn
Avengers/Invaders
Truth
Cap's 2010 Appearances:
Captain America
Avengers
Ultimates
Siege#1-4
Secret Avengers
Steve Rogers: Super Soldier (upcoming)
Invaders (upcoming in September)
Black Panther and Captain America
Guest Appearances....
The Twelve one shot
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Here is a list of trades current as of last year....
Trades only! No HCs!
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CLASSIC YEARS - VOLUME I
Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941) - #5 (July 1941 )
The first Simon and Kirby adventures! Only the Cap stories are collected here with none of the back up strips by Hurricane or Headline hunter (for those, by the Golden Age Masterworks).
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CLASSIC YEARS - VOLUME II
Captain America Comics #6 (August 1941 ) - #10 (December 1941 )
The last five issues of Simon and Kirby's run. Same as above with the backup features.
ESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA - VOLUME 1
Tales of Suspense #59 (November 1964 ) - #99, Captain America #100 (April 1968 ) - #102 (June 1968 )
Cap stories only. No Iron Man tales. Kirby's 2nd run on Cap.
ESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA - VOLUME II
Captain America #103 (July 1968 ) - #126 (June 1970)
Kirby finishes up. Steranko issues. Falcon introduced.
ESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA - VOLUME III
Captain America #127 (July 1970 ) - #156 (December 1972)
1950s Cap.
ESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA - VOLUME IV
Captain America and the Falcon #157 (January 1973 ) - #186 (June 1975)
Secret Empire and Nomad.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY
Various
First ever Cap trade from 1979 by Fireside books. Contains Tales of Suspense origin, Avengers #4, Tales of Suspense Red Skull and the Cosmic Cube, Gene Colan Scorpion story, Steranko issues. Also Stan Lee's first comics work: a written Cap adventure from 1941.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON: SECRET EMPIRE
Captain America & the Falcon #169 (January 1974 ) - #176 (August 1974 )
Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema's commentary on Water Gate.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON: NOMAD
Captain America & the Falcon #177 (September 1974 ) - #186 (June 1974 )
After the events of the Secret Empire trade, Steve Rogers drops the Cap identity for a new one: The Nomad!
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON: MAD BOMB
Captain America & the Falcon #193 (January 1976 ) - #200 (August 1976 )
Jack Kirby returns for his third and last stint on Cap with some wacked out tales.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BICENTENNIAL BATTLES
Captain America's Bicentennial Battles (1976) & Captain America & the Falcon #201 (September 1976 ) - #205 (January 1977)
More Kirby craziness!
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON: THE SWINE
Captain America & the Falcon #206 (February 1977 ) - #214 (October 1976), Captain America Annual #3 & 4
The last of the Kirby run. Arnim Zola introduced.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: WAR & REMEMBRANCE
Captain America #247 (July 1980 ) - #255 (March 1981 )
Roger Stern and John Byrne's classic run. Cap's first shield. Cap for President? Batroc. Machinesmith. Dragonman. Baron Blood and the Invaders in modern day. And an expanded retelling of his origin and first adventure for his 40th anniversary. Highly recommended. Originally released in the early 1990s but updated recently with new trade dress.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE BLOODSTONE HUNT
Captain America #357 (early Sept. 1989 ) - #364 (December 1989 )
Cap and Diamondback are after the Bloodstone but they aren't the only ones. First Crossbones. Fun Indiana Jones-like adventure.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: STREETS OF POISON
Captain America #372 (early July 1990 ) - #378 (October 1990 )
Mark Gruewald and Ron Lim's anti-drug Cap stories.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: FIGHT CHANCE - DENIAL VOLUME I
Captain America #425 (March 1994) - #430 (August 1994)
Mark Gruenwald's final year on the book with a dying Cap/Iron Cap.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: FIGHTING CHANCE - VOLUME II - ACCEPTANCE
To be released soon or just came out: Captain America #431 - 437. They might get a third volume out of this.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: OPERATION REBIRTH (new version)
Captain America #444 (October 1995) - 448 (February 1996), 450 (April 1996) - 454 (August 1996)
Mark Waid and Ron Garney start their run after Mark Gruenwald's lengthy run.
This collection was originally released as two different trades; Operation Rebirth & Man without a Country
CAPTAIN AMERICA: HEROES REBORN
Captain America Volume 2 #1 (November 1996) - #12 (Does not include #13)
Rob Liefeld and Jeph Loeb's relaunch of Cap. They only last the first 6 issues.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: TO SERVE AND PROTECT
Captain America Volume 3 #1 (January 1998 ) - #7 (July 1998 )
Mark Waid and Ron Garney's return to Cap.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: RED, WHITE, & BLUE
Various new short stories, Captain America #50 (2002), and Marvel Spotlight: Captain America Remembered.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: A NEW DEAL
Captain America Volume 4 #1 (June 2002) - #6 (December 2002)
Volume 4 launches with a Marvel Knights Cap in a post 9-11 world. John Cassaday art.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE EXTREMISTS
Captain America Volume 4 #7 (February 2003) - #11 (May 2003)
Cap vs. Redpath
CAPTAIN AMERICA: ICE
Captain America Volume 4 #12 (June 2003) - #16 (October 2003)
What if Cap was put on ice by the USA in 1945 to prevent him from objecting over the atomic bombings in Japan?
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CAP LIVES
Captain America Volume 4 #17 (November 2003) - #20 (January 2004)
Dave Gibbons writes Cap in a What If story if the Nazis won.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: HOMELAND
Captain America Volume 4 #21 (February 2004) - #28 (August 2004)
CAPTAIN AMERICA: DISASSEMBLED
Captain America Volume 4 #29 (September 2004) - #32 (December 2004), Captain America and the Falcon #5 - #7
Robert Kirkman story as Diamond back returns...along with the Red Skull.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER - VOLUME I
Captain America Volume 5 #1 (January 2005) - #7 (July 2005)
Cap is haunted by the memories of the past while a sniper is one the loose.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER - VOLUME II
Captain America #8 (September 2005), 9, 11-14 (April 2006)
Cap finally catches up with the Winter Soldier....Bucky!
CAPTAIN AMERICA: RED MENACE - VOLUME I
Captain America #15 (April 2006) - #17 (June 2006), 65th Anniversary Special
Small trade. Crossbones & Sin.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: RED MENACE - VOLUME II
Captain America #18 (July 2006) - #21 (October 2006)
Small trade but with Cap in London, Sleepers, Union Jack and Spitfire, and Cap fighting with the Winter Soldier.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
Captain America #22 (November 2006) - #24 (January 2007), Winter Soldier One shot.
Small trade covering Cap's Civil War time.
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA - VOLUME 1 (The Death of a Dream)
Captain America #25 (April 2007 ) - #30 (November 2007 )
Cap is gunned down.
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA - VOLUME 2 (The Burden of Dreams)
Captain America #31 (December 2007 ) - #36 (May 2008 )
Bucky takes over as Cap.
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA - VOLUME 3 (The Man who Bought America)
Captain America #37 (June 2008 ) - 42 (November 2008 )
Bucky Cap goes after the Red Skull.
Also....
FALLEN SON: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA
Jeph Loeb's series.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON: TWO AMERICAS
Captain America & the Falcon #1 (May 2004) - #4 (August 2004)
TRUTH: RED, WHITE & BLACK
A group of American-American soldiers are chosen to test the Super Soldier Formula.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CHOSEN
Captain America: The Chosen #1 - #6
Out of continuity story by the guy who wrote Rambo?
Cap is also featured in various Invaders trades (three so far) and Avengers & Ultimates trades. You also have some pocket books for things like the Stern/Byrne Baron Blood issues and various 2-3 issue collections for things like Cap and the Punisher or Cap and Deathlok that I don't really consider trades.
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ESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA STORYLINES & MILESTONES
1940s
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #1 (March 1941)
Origin story. First Captain America. First Bucky. First Red Skull. First Betty/Betsy Ross (probably no relation to the Hulk’s Betty Ross although she too had a father as a General, whom was killed). George Maxon is the Red Skull. Professor Reinstein dies.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #2 (April 1941)
First round shield. Cap actually beats Hitler. Too bad it didn’t last.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #3 (May 1941)
Stan Lee’s first comic book work, although only a prose piece. Also, in the same prose, first time Cap throws his shield as an offensive weapon.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #5 (August 1941)
First Stan Lee scripted comic book work but in a back up feature called Headline Hunter.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #6 (September 1941)
First double-page spread in a comic book. Simon and Kirby tried to line it up with the center of the magazine but, later, advertisers would take this space.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #7 (October 1941)
3rd Red Skull appearance but considered the first with Johann Schmidt, the true Red Skull.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #10 (January 1942)
Last Simon and Kirby Cap issue as they were fired because they signed a gig with DC Comics. They also were not, according to Joe Simon, getting the agreed percentage amount on the title’s profits.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #11 (February 1942)
With Simon and Kirby out, Stan Lee becomes editor for the first time.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #59 (November 1946)
Post War Cap becomes a teacher.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #66 (April 1948 )
Bucky shot by Lavender, a female gangster. Betty/Betsy Ross becomes new sidekick, Golden Girl (Betty Ross).
CAPTAIN AMERICA’S WEIRD TALES #74 & #75 (October 1949 and February 1950)
A definite horror theme. #74 has the Red Skull and #75 doesn’t even have Cap in it.
1950s
Young Men #24 (December 1953)
The Return of Captain America and Bucky….and also the Human Torch, Toro, and Submariner.
Captain America Comics #76 (May 1954)
Cap and Bucky return in their own book but are now fighting the Communists (Commie Smashers!).
Captain America Comics #77 (July 1954)
“The Man with No Face”. Story that features the Hackett man for the Red Chinese, later revived by Burbaker in recent Bucky Cap stories?
Fighting American
Simon and Kirby’s Cap knockoff, soon to become a parody. Cap and Bucky names were used in the Mexican reprints.
Highlights of the Atlas Era:
First John Romita senior on Cap.
Cap has a red belt with stars.
Romita drew less circles on the shield: one red outer stripe and one large white stripe.
Blonde Bucky.
1960s
STRANGE TALES #114 (November 1963)
A try-out for the return of the Captain America character as Cap returns but as a villain against the Human Torch. Cap is later revealed to be the Acrobat in disguise (with red shorts) but the tease at the end lets readers know to write in if they want Cap back.
AVENGERS #4 (March 1964)
Captain America is revived from suspended animation by the Avengers. After battling a member of the D’Bari race/Asparagus People (not revealed in this issue), Cap becomes a member of the team.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #58 (October 1964)
Iron Man battles Cap.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #59 (November 1964)
Cap replaces the Watcher as the co-feature. Shares covers with Iron Man before alternating covers.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #63-71 (March 1965-November 1965)
Cap stories take place in WWII. #63, 64, and 65 has Kirby and Lee recreating 3 out of 4 Cap stories from Captain America Comics #1 but with some changes to the characters/ For instance, Professor Reinstein is now Doctor Erskine. Betty Ross is now called Agent 13. George Maxon is now John Maxon (aircraft tychoon), who was the Red Skull in the first two Skull tales from 1941, is revealed to be a disguise.
But, in TOS #66 (June 1965), we get the Origin of the Red Skull.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #72 (December 1965)- TOS #74 (February 1966)
Cap battles the first of three sleepers, sleeper robots left by the Red Skull programmed to awaken on Der Tag (The Day), 20 years later. It is the Red Skull’s final legacy as he is defeated at the end of the war.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #75 (March 1966)
First appearance of Batroc ze Leaper and Sharon Carter, Agent 13. She went unnamed for several stories before being called Agent 13 in TOS #95 and final Sharon Carter in Captain America #103.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #77 (May 1966)
Flashback stories reveal’s Cap’s WWII romance in occupied France. The woman is never named until later as Peggy Carter, Sharon Carter’s older sister, in Captain America and the Falcon #162 (June 1973) later retconned during the Brubaker run as Sharon’s Aunt).
TALES OF SUSPENSE #79 (July 1966) - #81 (September 1966)
The Return of the Red Skull plus the Cosmic Cube.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #94 (Ocober 1967)
We first see MODOK.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #100 (April 1968 )
Cap takes over the TOS title while Iron Man gets his own book. A brief retelling of Avengers #4 is given while Cap, the Black Panther, and Agent 13 defeat Baron Zemo (really, his pilot in disguise since Zemo perished in an earlier Avengers book).
CAPTAIN AMERICA #107 (November 1968 )
First appearance of Dr. Faustus, an evil psychiatrist who specializes in the Mind Fuck!
CAPTAIN AMERICA #109 (January 1969 )
The Origin of Cap again. The Nazi shooter who killed Erskine is revealed as Heinz Kruger.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #111, 113, & 115 (March, May, and June 1969 )
Jim Steranko’s short but sweet and very haunting run of Cap. Madame Hydra (later becomes Viper) is introduced. Rick Jones dressed up as Bucky. Steve Rogers is seen smoking a pipe, the first time since his Golden Age stories, and perhaps his last time in comics. #112, not a Steranko issue and probably a fill-in issue recaps Cap’s past adventures. Could this be the first Album issue?
CAPTAIN AMERICA #115 – 119 (July 1969 – November 1969 )
The Red Skull regains the Cosmic Cube and switches bodies with Steve Rogers. While marooned on the island of the Exiles, he meets Sam Wilson, The Falcon, first introduced in #117, September 1969. Is this Marvel’s 2nd Black hero, after the Black Panther, and shortly before the Prowler? Also, Gene Colan pencils start.
AVENGERS #56 (September 1968 )
“Death Be Not Proud”. Cap and the Avengers go back in time to that day when Cap and Bucky battled Baron Zemo. Cap tries to save Bucky but is unable to.
1970s
CAPTAIN AMERICA #126 (June 1970)
The Falcon returns! He becomes Cap’s regular partner at the end of #133 (January 1971) and the title changes to CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON the next month in #134.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #153 - #156 (September 1972 – December 1972)
Steve Englehart begins his run on Cap with Sal Buscema, who started earlier in the year. In his first issue, Englehart introduces the 1950s Captain America and Bucky, admirers of the original team but were driven crazy by their version of the Super Soldier Formula and were put in cold storage. The idea originated with an idea by Roy Thomas and fleshed out by Englehart as a way to explain Cap’s post-WWII adventures since it was clearly shown in Avengers #4 that Steve Rogers went into suspended animation right at the end of WWII.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #163 (July 1973)
Introduction of the Serpent Squad, old villains with a snake-themed identity like the Eel, Cobra, and Viper.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #168 (December 1973)
“And a Phoenix Shall Rise”. Baron Zemo’s son, introduced as The Phoenix, takes his revenge on Cap. He later returns in the 1980s as a major Cap villain and the 1990s and the 2000s in the Thunderbolts. This issue was also turned into a record audio drama in the 1970s.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #169 - #175 (January 1974 – July 1974)
THE SECRET EMPIRE TRADE
We are introduced to the Committee to Regain America’s Principles (i.e. C.R.A.P.), also known as The Committee as this becomes the beginning of Englehart’s “Secret Empire” storyline, his comment on Watergate and President Nixon. The big villain reveal at the end is never shown to be Nixon but it is strongly implied. We also meet the first Moonstone, a man.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #176 - #183 (August 1974 – March 1975)
NOMAD TRADE
Mirroring the country’s disillusionment after Watergate, Steve Rogers begins is now soul searching after the events of the Secret Empire storyline. The result is Steve Rogers becomes NOMAD. Meanwhile, Madame Hydra returns, kills Viper, takes his costume and identity, and takes control of the Serpent Squad in search of the Serpent Crown. Also, a young man named Roscoe becomes the new Cap before the Red Skull returns to murder him, which convinces Steve to become Cap once more. This dovetails into the next storyline which reveals that the Falcon was a plant by the Red Skull to go against Cap.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #193 (January 1976)
MAD BOMB TRADE
The Return of the King!! Jack Kirby returns for his 3rd and last stint on Captain America (not including Avengers issues). We are also introduced to the Mad Bomb.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #200 (August 1976)
MAD BOMB TRADE
BICENTENNIAL BATTLES TRADE
THE SWINE TRADE
After many crazy Kirby creations and events (Cap skateboarding?), Kirby (as writer as well as artist), concluded his Mad Bomb epic in this special Bicentennial issue. Kirby further celebrates the Bicentennial with the oversized Treasury book CAPTAIN AMERICA’S BICENTENNIAL BATTLES.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #208 (April 1977)
First Arnim Zola, another Kirby creation.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #214 (October 1977)
Jack Kirby’s last issue on Captain America.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #215 (November 1977)
Yet another Origin and Album issue. Get caught up!
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #216 (December 1977)
A blown deadline special!! Reprints Strange Tales #114 with the Torch vs. the Acrobat Cap. Cheap alternative to buying the original.
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #218 - #220 (February 1978 – April 1978 )
Lyle Dekker and the Ameridroid (and rather large android shaped like Cap) are introduced. The story explains how Dekker first revived Cap after his last WWII appearance and later set him adrift in the arctic. We also get a story with the real Cap on the set of the movie serial Cap from the 1940s.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #223 (July 1978 )
Falcon name dropped from the title of the book.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #231 - #237 (March 1979 – September 1979 )
Introduction of the National Force led by the Grand Director, a group of white racists. By the end of the storyline, Dr. Faustus is revealed to have orchestrated the group with the 1950s Cap as the Grand Director. It “appearances” that the 50s Cap shot Jack Monroe, his Bucky, and died in a flaming heap at story’s end. Also, Sharon Carter, under control of the National Force, commits suicide as well. All three deaths are later revealed to be false. I told you Faustus specializes in the mind fuck!!
WHAT IF? #4 (August 1977)
“What If the Invaders had stayed together after World War Two?” Described by Roy Thomas as a What If tale that “could have happened – and maybe did happen” as it was later adopted as canon by Captain America and the Falcon #215 (November 1977). This story explains the Captain America appearances at the end of WWII and before the 1950s Cap. William Naslund, the Spirit of ’76, and Fred Davis, former batboy for the Yankees, become the new Captain America and Bucky, assigned by President Truman after the apparent “deaths” of the originals. But this new Cap too is killed by the android Adam-II, created by the Human Torch’s Professor Phineas Horton, who intents of replacing a young congressman from Boston, JFK, with an android. A new Cap fills the suit in the form of The Patriot, Jeffrey Mace. With Fred Davis as his Bucky and later Betty Ross, Golden Girl, this Cap is the one from the late 1940s who is a school teacher.
1980s
CAPTAIN AMERICA #247 - 255 (July 1980-March 1981 )
WAR & REMEMBRANCE TRADE
The return of Cap’s original triangular shield. Machinesmith & Dragonman. Cap for President? Batroc and Mr. Hyde. Introduction of Bernie Rosenthal. (#248 ) Ode to the Invaders: Spitfire. Baron Blood. New Union Jack. Cleaned up re-telling of Origin and first adventure. Reinstein is a disguise for Dr. Abraham Erskine. Agent X-13, from the first story, is now Agent R.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #258 - 289 (June 1981-January 1984 )
The Mike Zeck (#258 ) & (#261 ) Jim DeMatteis run. Doc Ock. This run hides in the shadow of the Byrne/Stern run but it is solid. Good stories. Solid art. Follows up on elements left from the Byrne run (Bernie) along with a continuation of some of the 1970s stories (Ameridroid, Nomad, Jack Monroe, Falcon, Madame Hydra, The Patriot).
A New Nomad. The Ameridroid. The Red Skull. Spider-man. Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos. Baron Strucker. The New Baron Zemo. The Falcon. Arnim Zola. Arnie Roth. Jack Monroe as Nomad. Deathlok. Death of the Patriot (#285).
CAPTAIN AMERICA #281 (May 1983 )
Jack Monroe, the Bucky of the 1950s, returns and becomes the new Nomad in the next issue.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #300 (December 1984 )
The Red Skull vs. Cap….to the death. DeMatteis’ last issue.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #307 - 443 (July 1985 - September 1995 )
Mark Gruenwald’s long era begins. As he and Mike Carlin switch positions from writer and Editor. Flag Smasher. The Serpent Society. Scourge. Super Patriot/John Walker. Crossbones. Diamondback.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #318 – 320 (June 1986 – August 1986 )
Climax of the first Scourge storyline, started in the Iron Man book and shown from time to time.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #332 (August 1987) – #350 (February 1989 )
Cap resigns. John Walker becomes Cap. Battlestar. The Captain.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #357 (Early September 1989) – #362 (Mid-November 1989 )
THE BLOODSTONE HUNT TRADE
Cap and Diamondback team up to find the Bloodstone. Baron Zemo. Batroc. Machete. Crossbones introduced.
CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL #6 (1982)
Steve Rogers gets to meet and fight with the other Captain Americas of the past via the powers of Mister Buda.
CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL #8 (1986)
Cap vs. Wolverine in this classic cover image and in what turns out to be part of a longer older history between the two characters.
MARVEL FANFARE #18 (January 1985)
Frank Miller’s Cap story where he rushes into a burning building to save the American flag.
DAREDEVIL #233 (August 1986)
Cap gueststars to find out the truth behind Nuke, a new Super Soldier without any moral compass.
1990s
EARLY 1990s
Gruenwald’s downfall. Modam. Cap Wolf. Cap almost turned into a woman.
GALACTIC STORM
Cap refuses to kill The Kree Supreme Intelligence?
CAPTAIN AMERICA #425 - #443 (March 1994 – September 1995 )
“Fighting Chance” storyline. Cap is dying. Gruenwald’s farewell to Cap.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #444 (October 1995) - #454 (August 1996 )
Mark Waid and Ron Garney’s first run on Cap. The return of Sharon Carter. The Red Skull returns. Man without a Country storyline. Machinesmith returns. The end of Volume One.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 VOLUME 2 (November 1996) - #13 (November 1997 )
Rob Liefeld starts with the Heroes Reborn era. The “A” on Cap’s mask is replaced with some sort of Eagle/Van Halen symbol. Female Bucky. Despite 13 issues, Loeb and Liefeld can only manage the first 6 issues.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 VOLUME 3 (January 1998 )
Mark Waid and Ron Garney return with the “Heroes Return” storyline.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #2 (February 1998 )
Cap loses his shield in the ocean. Fun issue with Cap throwing his shield in the air and battling Hydra.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #3 (March 1998 )
After using a replacement, Cap begins using a replica of his triangular shield.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #9 (September 1998 )
Cap’s new energy shield.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #22 (October 1999)
Old shield, formerly in pieces, is back!
ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN AMERICA #1-4
Expand retelling of Cap’s origin, Bucky, the first meeting with the Red Skull.
CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL #13 (1994)
Expansion of the 1960s story from TOS that explains the last WWII days of the Red Skull and “Der Tag”. We have Steve Rogers fighting side-by-side with future Captain Americas The Spirit of ’76 and the Patriot and also the origins of the Communist Red Skull, Albert Malik, as seen from the Atlas era books from the 1950s.
2000s
CAPTAIN AMERICA #28 – 38, 2000 Annual (April 2000 – February 2001 )
Dan Jurgens introduces Protocide.
CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL 2000
Origin of Protocide, Clinton McIntyre, an early prototype of the Super Soldier program from the same era as Steve Rogers.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 VOLUME 4 (June 2002 )
The start of the Marvel Knights post-9-11 era of Captain America from John Ney Rieber and John Cassaday. This volume starts with a lot of promise with a cinematic approach, sparse writing, and a grounding in today’s headlines but ultimately fizzles due to a lack of direction. Wrapping a comic in post-9-11 vigilantism only works for so long before good stories need to be told. First storyline #1-6.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #7 (February 2003 ) - #11 (May 2003 )
The Extremist storyline. Forgettable.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #12 (June 2003 ) - #16 (October 2003 )
“Ice” storyline written by Chuck Austen. Intriguing storyline that perhaps has Captain America put in suspended animation by the US military in 1945 because he may have had objections over the bombs dropped on Japan. Haunting art by Jae Lee, much like Steranko’s run. Current writer Ed Brubaker didn’t care for this idea and have have retconned it out.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #17 (November 2003 ) - #20 (January 2004 )
“Cap Lives” storyline by Dave Gibbons. What if the Nazis had won? What would a revived Cap do?
CAPTAIN AMERICA #21 (February 2004 ) - #32 (December 2004 )
Great covers by Dave Johnson. “Homeland” storyline with Guantamano Bay. An alternate reality Isaiah Bradley Cap. And a Robert Kirkman 4-issue story that brings back Diamondback, Hydra, Batroc, the serpent Society, Nick Fury, and the Red Skull.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 VOLUME 5 (January 2005 )
Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting begin their run with the “Out of Time” storyline. Cliffhanger: The Red Skull is assassinated by some unknown sniper.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #6 (June 2005 )
Bucky is back…but as the Winter Soldier.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #25 (April 2007 )
Steve Rogers killed!! ??? National media event.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #34 (March 2008 )
Bucky becomes the new Captain America.
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Thanks. Most of it I already had prepped from a podcast I did on the history of Cap from a year ago. If you have a spare 3 hours and 15 minutes, you can listen to it. I'd post the link but, right now, the Comic Geek Speak website is flaking out.
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Another newbie question here:
I came across Captain America #1 Out of TIME.
is this a mini-series?
What number is this?
sorry for dumb questions I really want to get into all this! Its just so hard to
understand it
EDIT: Ok I think i might understand it somewhat. Vol. 1 of Cap is still currently running and its on issue 608.
while Vol. 5 had only 1-50..
???????????????????????????
y/n
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Your questions are confusing to me.
Newbie? No, I'm not.
Cap #1 out of time? Out of order, do you mean? What specifically are you asking?
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| Posted: 16 Jun 2010 08:13 Last Edited By: atomic99 |
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double post,,,,ignore this
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| Posted: 16 Jun 2010 08:20 Last Edited By: CaptainBoston |
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Why are there 5 volumes of Captain America series?
why not just one big one.
and..
why is Vol. 1 which started in the 60's (i think) still going while volume 5 went for 50 issues and ended after 5 years or so.
I am new to all this...sorrry
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| Posted: 16 Jun 2010 08:37 Last Edited By: PS Schmucker |
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I will try and sum up Cap's own title to explain why the numbers look weird....
Cap got his own book in 1968 with issue #100.
So this is the timeline with his own comic book run...
Captain America Volume 1 (1968-1996)
#100-454
Captain America Volume 2 (1996-1997)
#1-13
Captain America Volume 3 (1998-2002)
#1-50
Captain America Volume 4 (2002-2004)
#1-32
Captain America Volume 5 (2005-Current)
1-50,600-Current
Recently AFTER issue #50 in 2009 they went back to normal count for the series.
So in other words during Volume 5 the numbering went like this.... (48,49,50,600,601,602,603....and so on.
They have corrected Cap's book with the number it should be on from the Volume 1 series that started in 1968. Now couting Volume 1-5 as if it's all one Volume with 600+ issues.
Hope this helps.... 
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Quote:
came across Captain America #1 Out of TIME.
is this a mini-series?
What number is this?
Captain America #1 "Out of Time" is actually
Volume 5, number 1 (2005) written by Ed Brubaker.
You could call it Cap Volume 5 number 1 or I guess you could call it Volume 1 number 549 lol. 
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To compliment what Sam wrote, the first Cap series from the 1940s and into the 1950s lasted until #78.
When he returned in the 1960s, he shared the TALES OF SUSPENSE book with Iron Man from #58 through #99, at which point they gave Iron Man his own book with a new issue #1 and Cap took over the old Tales of Suspense numbering with #100 (but they did change the title name).
That "first" volume lasted until the mid-1990s with #454. A trend with comics for the last few decades to boost sales is to restart a title with a new #1 and Cap had several restarts which explains the Volume 2,3, 4, & 5.
Recently, in a move to embrace their history, the recent run, Volume 5, was brought back to its original numbering with #600 (with those previous volume books counted as issues between #454 and #600).
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whats a trade comic??
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A trade comic is short for a trade paper back (tpb).
There are several comics (chapters) that make up a storyline.
For example:
Captain America Volume 5, #1 "Out of Time" comic you mentioned earier....
The "Out of Time" story line runs from issues 1,2,3,4,5,& 6.
So it took six comic book issues to complete the "Out of Time" story line.
A few months AFTER the story concludes with issue number 6, Marvel will then reissue the exact same comic books but now as a trade paper back. (A complete book with all the comics in it to complete the "Out of Time" story, (Cap #1-6).
So if you missed an issue, or a storyline, instead of going back and trying to buy older comics you can now just buy the tpb's which will have the complete story in them at sometimes a lower price.
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| Posted: 17 Jun 2010 08:51 Last Edited By: PS Schmucker |
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So if you want to collect Cap comics, you will need to buy a hell of a lot of back issue comics.
However if you just want to READ Cap comics, then TPB's are the way to go.
For every TPB you buy, you will for the most part have an entire story arc in the book.
Also TPB's are easier to store as a book on a bookehelf.
Also if you just want to read Cap comics, there is a cool guy around here who actually gives out a DVD-R with over 600+ Cap comics on it.
I think he usually does it around Christmas time.
I forget who he is, but he is a really cool guy and he scores a ton of babes. I hope one day to be as cool as him.
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lol thanks again.
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| Posted: 17 Jun 2010 15:00 Last Edited By: ServeAndProtect |
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I know the feeling of being lost in this. I collected when i was a teenager. Then started again about a year and a half ago when I was 33. It took a while to figure it all out. Its worth it once you figure it out.
I recommend you start with the Captain America Omnibus written by Ed Brubaker. You will quickly catch up on what is happening with Cap now and you can slowly start reaching backwards to older stories. For instance I am caught up with all of the modern Cap stuff (Vol 5. Thanks to the Omnibus). I am now collecting individual issues and also collecting New Avengers hardcovers (TPB's) to catch up on Caps past involvment since Avengers: Disassembled (when the Avengers broke up). I also read older issues whenever I pick them up at shows. You won't be able to catch up on this overnight.... Have patience. Its worth the late night reading and you will find yourself dying to know what happens next.
Just so you understand the numbering, sometimes when a new writer takes over they will start with their own #1 just to attract new readers, because looking at issue #608 can be intimidating and shy readers away. But they usually end up jumping back on track with the correct numbering.
Enjoy. The Omnibus is the way to go. There are 2 volumes. You can actually find it on Ebay by just searching "Captain America Omnibus". They are relatively cheap now, I believe. Good Luck.
*** Oh yeah.... be sure to watch for that really cool guy who shares his DVD's at Christmas time. That really helped out with reading past stories as well. Thanks again "really cool guy"!
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A lot of great info in this thread. 
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I suggest the Captain America Complete collection on Dvd/Cd, over 500 complete comics, just to avoid spending oodles of money.
Still waiting for an affordable collection of the Golden Age Cap books. DC had some good collections of Supes and Bats comics in that B+W formats.
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If you want to go the bit torrent route, you can get most of the Golden Age works. Between that and the DVD-Rom Cap collection, that will take you up to 2007 for most of the Cap.
Any chance that Santa Cap might offer the Avengers DVD-Rom this Christmas? 
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I tried reading some comics through a few comic readers and I hate the experience. I would rather spend the $$ on a book.
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When did the Civil War take place?
Before...During..After Vol. 5?
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During Volume 5. In the early to mid 20s.
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Also, try using Wikipedia. It has a lot of useful information.
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Why did the civil war start?
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From the Marvel editor's point of view, to have a blockbuster mini series to sell books and to parallel the then political climate of civil rights vs. security of the country (for instance, wire tapping American citizens, etc. to secure the nation against terrorism).
In the comics, what you need to know is all in CIVIL WAR #1. The New Warriors, a young team, take on Nitro and the city of Stamford, Conn. gets hit hard with Nitro's explosion which kills many women, children, and several members of the New Warriors.
Public outcry calls for some legislation to reign in the super heroes, who are mostly masked vigilantes, some with little training, who operate without much oversight. The legislation calls for all heroes to register their true identities with the government (via S.H.I.E.L.D.?) with only a select view able to access that information (no full public disclosure).
Some heroes see the logic of the legislation. Others see it as infringing too war on their liberties. Iron Man becomes the face of the pro-legislation side while Cap is the head of the anti-legislation side. It all comes to a head in CIVIL WAR #7 but the real impact of it hits in CAPTAIN AMERICA #25.
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