Issue Description

While meeting Nick Fury at a carnival, Cap is ambushed by Hydra forces!

We open with a wordless title sequence of Steve at an amusement park. A fortune telling machine spits out a prophetic warning. Steve was supposed to meet Nick Fury here and instead its a trap. Steve sees the reflection of a band of gunmen set to attack in the fortune telling machine and avoids the first blast of machine gun fire as he ducks and changes into his Captain America costume. Before donning his mask, he is attacked by the the quick draw arcade robot cowboy. Cap tosses his shield and shatters this robot. The gunmen have fled as well. Madame Hydra appears in a secret chamber as she punishes the leader of this gunmen gang for allowing Cap to escape. Cap and Rick (wearing a Bucky costume) are reviewing old WWII footage of Cap and Bucky fighting. Next they go through some training moves to sharpen their skills. Rick leaves Cap training as he fakes being tired so he can leave. Hours later an envelope is slid under the door as the doorbell rings. Rick opens the letter and a hallucinogenic gas is emitted. Rick is rendered unconscious, two Hydra agents enter and take him out to their car. Cap comes in, sees the letter on the floor, hears footsteps outside, and realizes that Rick has been captured. He gets outside just as the Hydra agents dump Rick into a car. One of them takes the car and gets away, but not before shooting his partner, killing him so he won't talk. Cap chases the car to the amusement park and is attacked by an armored Hydra robot called the Mankiller. Cap heads to the roof, taking this fight with him. Rick has by now escaped and has doubled back to warn Cap that a trap awaits him. He yells to Cap to get off the roof, and Cap jumps just as a hail of gunfire erupts. The bullets follow Cap as he hits the water, and he does not surface. Hydra flees, as the police arrive. They pull only Cap's bullet riddled costume from the water without a body They also pull out a Steve Rogers mask. Cap is presumed dead, and Cap's Steve Rogers identity is presumed false.

Captain America (1968)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

Captain America is on his own at last, in the comic that started it all, the Super Soldier's story begins.

Continued from Tales of Suspense issue 99. Tales of Suspense was one of several horror-like anthologies that Marvel was publishing in the early 1960's, but just like its counterpart Tales To Astonish, after nearly one hundred issues the series changed its name, after it already went a completely new route featuring characters such as Iron Man and Captain America instead of horror stories. So it was that in 1968, the series became Captain America Volume 1 with its hundredth issue. Captain America ran on for three more decades much like its Incredible Hulk counterpart. The series concluded with issue 454, when the series was relaunched as Captain America vol. 2. After issue number 50 of Captain America vol. 5, that series returned to its original numbering started here in Volume 1, celebrating it's 600th issue.

This is the first solo Captain America series published by Marvel Comics, the previous series, Captain America Comics, had been published by Marvel’s predecessors Atlas and Timely respectively.

Collected EditionsMarvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 2 (#100)Captain America Omnibus Volume 1 (#100-113)Marvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 3 (#101-113)Marvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 4 (#114-124)Captain America Omnibus Volume 2 (#114-148)Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier Prelude (#117)Marvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 5 (#125-136)Marvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 6 (#137-148)Marvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 7 (#149-159)Marvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 8 (#160-175) Secret Empire (#169-176)Captain America: The 75th Anniversary Vibranium Collection Slipcase (#169-175, #255 and #445-448) Nomad (#177-186)Captain America: Peggy Carter, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (#184-186) Madbomb (#193-200) Bicentennial Battles (#201-205) The Swine (#206-214, Annual #3, Annual #4) War and Remembrance (#247-255)Captain America Epic Collection: Dawn's Early Light (#247-266)Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (#247-255)All-New Captain America: Fear Him (#280)Deathlok The Demolisher: The Complete Collection (#286-288)Captain America Epic Collection: Society of Serpents (#302-317) Scourge of the Underworld (#318-320, #358-362) The Captain (#332-350) The Bloodstone Hunt (#357-364)Red Skull: Battleworld (#367) Streets of Poison (#372-378)Captain America Epic Collection: Streets of Poison (#372-386) Man and Wolf (#402-408) Fighting Chance - Denial (#425-430) Fighting Chance - Acceptance (#431-437) Operation Rebirth (#444-448, #450-454)Captain America Epic Collection: Man Without A Country (#444-454)

Captain America Omnibus-series:

Captain America omnibus (#100-113) Captain America omnibus by Jack Kirby (#193-214, Annuals 3 and 4 )

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