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Captain America #110

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After nearly sixty issues of Jack Kirby Captain America covers in the silver age, a five year span, along comes this one. Totally by surprise! As a child collecting Marvel silver age off the stands, there was no other interpetation of Captain America other than Jack Kirby’s. Jack drew every cover of Tales of Suspense featuring Cap and Captain America in his own title, up to this point, with the exception of maybe one or two. In those exceptions, the covers were cloned to look like Jack’s art. This cover also showed no doubt who the villain is here. Hulk, for the first time, crossed the barrier as a Marvel Super Hero to a downright threat! It boggled my little child mind to see this cover, but one thing was clear…there was another artist who could draw Captain America very well besides Jack. Up until the time this comic was published, that artist didn’t exist. A very surreal sixties cover, with everything going for it, including Steranko doing a very fine job of showing raw emotion of fear and rage, which up until that time, didn’t really exist either. It brought in a new vision of Cap, as well as ending King Kirby’s reign of this most enduring hero.