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Captain America #243-245Issue(s): Captain America #243, Captain America #244, Captain America #245 Review/plot: ![]() ...arranges to have a SHIELD LMD Master Matrix stolen so that he can have his brain transferred into a new body. ![]() But the old man's son resents him and between his interference and Captain America's attempt to retrieve the Matrix, the process goes awry and the man turns into a monster ironically called Adonis. ![]() Cap initially loses track of Adonis, but he resurfaces after some downtime scenes. I am surprised to see that Steve Rogers is the type to let dishes pile up in the sink. ![]() Adonis is eventually fried by some electrical equipment. Sloppy, weird, art by Perlin in #244 creates a strange but appropriate tone for the Adonis story. ![]() ![]() ![]() On his way home from the Adonis fight, Cap stops at a local diner, to the delight of the owner. Cap lets the guy pretend like Cap is a regular customer and orders "the usual", which the owner interprets to be a slice of apple pie. ![]() The guy in the background complaining about the service is Jack Lockley, aka Moon Knight, who offers Cap a ride home in his cab. It's a cute scene highlighting Captain America's popularity. Things get a lot more serious when we switch over to Anna Kappelbaum, who bumps into Dr. Mendelhaus, a Nazi that worked at the concentration camp that she was kept at during the Holocaust and apparently paid special attention to her. ![]() ![]() Kappelbaum goes into shock and is taken to the hospital. She's met there by an Aaron Heller, a Nazi hunter. ![]() Later, while Steve Roger's apartment mates are throwing a surprise birthday party for him, Kappelbaum is later kidnapped by Neo-Nazis, who have also captured Dr. Mendelhaus, who we learn is having some regrets about his past life. ![]() But the Neo-Nazis intend to use him to begin a new Nazi movement in South America. Steve sneaks away from his party and Captain America arrives at the site where Kappelbaum is being held thanks to a tip from Heller. Cap beats up the Neo-Nazis. Kappelbaum has an opportunity to shoot Mendelhaus, but before she can decide, he's killed by Heller's daughter. Heller himself dies of a heart attack. These are Roger McKenzie's last issues. After a fill-in by Peter Gillis, Roger Stern and John Byrne's run begins. Quality Rating: C Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP places this between Avengers #189-190. There's a downtime gap in the middle of issue #244 while Adonis is laying low. Issue #245 is a separate story but it starts in the aftermath of the Adonis fight. References:
Crossover: N/A Continuity Insert? N My Reprint: N/A Inbound References (1): showCharacters Appearing: Anna Kappelbaum, Captain America, Josh Cooper, Mike Farrel, Moon Knight CommentsNo commentary on the cheesecake shower scene? Only when it's a female hero?:-) Posted by: Kveto from Prague | July 2, 2013 2:32 PM I know you're just joking with me, but i did almost comment on it; that's why it's in the scan. If they had next shown Cap seductively drying himself off and then slowly getting dressed, i probably would have. And if it happened every issue i definitely would have. I did skip over a shower scene from an issue of She-Hulk i recently reviewed because it wasn't a consistent thing in that book like it was in Dazzler and Spider-Woman. Besides, everyone knows if you want to constantly see a dude in various states of undress, Iron Man is the book for you. Posted by: fnord12 | July 2, 2013 2:44 PM Thanks for the tip:-) Posted by: Kveto from Prague | July 2, 2013 2:47 PM Kveto, that would be a *beef*cake shower scene. :-) Cap's a bit steroidal-looking for my taste, as drawn there. Posted by: Todd | July 2, 2013 3:47 PM Oh, and he never had his own book, but the reigning undressed male hero in the Marvel Universe (disqualifying the obvious likes of the Sub-Mariner) would have to be Angel. I get it, shirts would be a nuisance if you had large wings, but he seemed to have three modes in various team books: (1) costume, (2) suit for formal occasions, (3) hanging around HQ topless. Posted by: Todd | July 2, 2013 9:42 PM Wouldn't Angel's old buddy Iceman run him close for consistent panels in a state of near nakedness? There was the earlier Silver Age X-Men, the Champions, the New Defenders, though at least Bobby's modesty was protected by his best (IMHO) costume during the X-Factor era. Posted by: Harry | March 26, 2014 6:56 AM Iceman's full body Champions costume wasn't bad either. Posted by: Jay Demetrick | March 26, 2014 12:24 PM I started noticing that Wolverine gets nude pretty often, more often than Cyclops that's for sure. Posted by: David Banes | March 26, 2014 12:39 PM @Jay D: "Iceman's full body Champions costume" = 1960s THUNDER Agents Dymano ;) Posted by: Shar | March 27, 2014 12:20 PM Agreed on Iceman's later period Champions costume. I miss Iceman having a proper costume, actually. Seems all he does now is hang around in ice form most of the time while wearing regular civilian shorts. Posted by: Harry | March 27, 2014 4:27 PM I have to agree with David Banes. It hasn't happened much yet at this point, but I think Wolverine is absolutely the king of being nude in the Marvel Universe. Posted by: Erik Beck | April 17, 2015 11:43 AM 20th Century Danny Boy has scans of the penciled art for an earlier version of part one of "The Lazarus conspiracy" story, which was originally going to appear in issue #240. For reasons lost to time, it was scrapped, and a completely different issue was created. It's interesting to compare the unpublished art by Alan Kupperberg to how Rich Buckler drew #243, and see the different layout & storytelling choices utilized by the two pencilers in drawing the same plot. http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/11/original-art-stories-captain-america.html Posted by: Ben Herman | January 13, 2017 2:49 PM Comments are now closed. |
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