Issue(s): Marvel Fanfare #26
Cover Date: May 86
Title: "Death and the queen"
Credits:
Will Jungkuntz - Writer
Will Jungkuntz - Penciler
Bob Wiacek - Inker
Al Milgrom - Editor

Review/plot:
The main story in Marvel Fanfare #24-26 are from Doug Moench's Weirdworld fantasy storyline, but they all have back-ups that take place in the Marvel Universe.

Often i enjoy the Editori-Al cartoons that appear on the inside cover of Marvel Fanfares more than i enjoy the stories themselves. But this issue just depressingly tells us that the writer and artist for this issue's Captain America back-up, Will Jungkuntz, died at age 30 before seeing the issue completed. Jungkuntz had previously done some work on a Blood & Gutz feature (which i know nothing about) in Marvel's 1985 Savage Tales series, and was apparently thought well of by Frank Miller and Howard Chaykin.

The story gets into semi-fictional Caribbean politics. Captain America goes to a West Indies parade in Brooklyn and meets a photographer from a place called St. Cyril that has been through a series of revolutions and counter-revolutions.

The photographer is dating the daughter of the Governor-General, the ruler prior to the most recent revolution, and she's appearing in the parade. And a costumed madman called Deathmask has decided that the daughter will be his queen.

Deathmask also has conscripted a few people to work for him.

Despite a close call with a grenade...

...Captain America manages to fight off Deathmask and his goons...

...but Deathmask remains uncaptured.

My knowledge of the West Indies is such that when i first read this i assumed St. Cyril was a real place and that the historical events described here were real, but that doesn't seem to be the case so i assume it's more of an amalgam.

Like a lot of back-up stories, this is underdeveloped and no one has much of a personality. But Jungkuntz manages to pack a lot of information and action into each page and it's a shame he never got to develop further.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP places this in the same break in Cap's stories as New Mutants #40.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A