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Captain America #238-239
Issue(s): Captain America #238, Captain America #239
Cover Date: Oct-Nov 79
Title: "Snowfall fury!" / "Mind-stains on the virgin snow!"
Credits:
Peter Gillis - Writer
Fred Kida - Penciler
Don Perlin - Inker
Review/plot:
Hoodwinked into working for SHIELD again, Cap goes on a fantastical quest, climbing a mountain to fight Hawkriders and such.
He ends up freeing a little girl with telepathic powers...
...who then decides that she doesn't have a place in this world, so she kills herself.
I'm usually a booster of Peter Gillis, who i think was generally unrecognized but quite good. This arc, however, wasn't so hot.
Quality Rating: C-
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A
References:
- Mentallo was given a stroke by the mental attacks that led SHIELD to send Cap on this quest. Mentallo previously attacked SHIELD in Strange Tales #142-143.
- SHIELD dropped funding for its ESPer unit to make room for the SHIELD Super-Agents, who were seen in Captain America #217 and Captain America #229.
- Cap finds Stephen Tuval, the Mind-Master, in the castle on top of the mountain. Tuval previously appeared in Sub-Mariner #43, but he's now a broken man. It's a little weird to find him here but he never made much sense to begin with.
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
I do like the bit where Cap steely walks towards one of the bird-riders and tricks him and later tricks the rest into a mine field.
Just noticed you put "Steven Tuval" and "The Mind-Master" as two tags when they're one and the same. I guess though he really did have nothing to do with all the hippies moved out to the suburbs and getting jobs by the late 70s, though...
Thanks, Ataru. I've merged the tags.
I think this might be Golden Age artist Fred Kida's only penciling gig at Marvel, where he had been doing some work as an inker throughout the '70s. He's largely forgotten today, outside of GA enthusiasts who admire his work drawing the sexy Valkyrie in Airboy comics.
@Robert - Fred Kida also penciled What If #22, which featured the story "What if Doctor Doom had become a hero?"
I recently wrote a short piece on Kida's career that was published in Alter Ego #138.
Fred Kida also worked on the Spider-Man newspaper strip for a long time.
The idea of a sanctuary where super-villains can hide is a good one, and would fit in well with the other ideas, like the Taskmaster's school for Henchmen and the Tinkerer supplying gadgetry, etc., in making the MU more logical (albeit it might work better with fewer giant ostriches).
