Jan 1984
It's Assistant Editors' Month. This cover is like one of those images in the Sunday newspaper that asks you to pick out how many things are wrong with this picture?
There are two warnings on the cover, one in the lower left and the other in the lower right but if you bought this issue from a newsstand then the one in the lower left would have been replaced with a bar code. Captain America is facing backwards in the corner box. The logo in the upper right corner and the checkerboard pattern are reminiscent of DC Comics covers of the 1960s. The guys hanging out the window are (from left to right) J.M. DeMatteis, Mike Carlin, Mike Zeck, John Beatty.
by J. M. DeMatteis, Mike Zeck, John Beatty, Diana Albers, Bob Sharen, Mike Carlin
Captain America returns to 1983. He puts the information Godwulf gave him in the future to work and locates the Nth Command headquarters. He prevents Albert DeVoor and the Nth Project from achieving their goal, to change the course of history by wiping out the superheroes of the world. The biggest obstacle that Captain America faces is a giant green robot that can read minds. Nick Fury and SHIELD show up in time to clean up the mess.
Thoughts
Godwulf and Iron Butterfly make brief appearances.
This story did not impress me. It flowed very quickly and there didn’t seem to be very much to it. It was too straight forward.
DeVoor’s plan focused solely on the superheroes of the world. What about the supervillains? Wouldn’t the world be ripe for the taking if all the superheroes were gone?
Bernie America, Sentinel of Liberty
by J. M. DeMatteis, Mike Zeck, Diana Albers, Bob Sharen, Mike Carlin
Bernie is still at her parents’ home in Long Island. She falls asleep and dreams about what it would be like if she were a superhero and Steve Rogers was not. In her dream he is just her romantic partner. The story ends with Bernie waking up to discover that Steve has finally arrived at her parents house.
Thoughts
This was more fun than the main story, even if it was a bit ridiculous. There is a 4th wall breaking moment where one of the characters in the story points out that things seem weird because Bernie is conflating MODOK and the Red Skull.
Bullpen Bulletins
Lynn E. Cohen, Jim Shooter's assistant fills in for him and writes about the many people who work at Marvel who are not writers or pencilers or inkers.
Mighty Marvel Checklist
- Moon Knight Special Edition (1983) 3 - I own it but I'm not sure if I ever read it cover to cover
- Marvel Retread Funnies 1 - never actually published; was put together by Mike Carlin and Christopher Priest; basically they took Daredevil (1963) 181 and rewrote all the dialogue; for more information see this blog post by Tom Brevoort
- Moon Knight (1980) 35 - I used to own it; bought it when it was published; read it; but I'm not sure what happened to my copy of it
- Magik (1983) 2 - I used to own this one; I read it back in the day; I want to read this story again
- Uncanny X-Men (1963) 177 - I had a subscription to X-Men at the time; the cover to this issue, which implies that Wolverine just killed Kitty Pryde, confused the hell out of me back then
- Cloak and Dagger (1983) 4
- Alpha Flight (1983) 6 - see DTC 53
- Jack of Hearts (1983) 1
- X-Men Classics (1983) 1 - reprints the first Neal Adams drawn issues of X-Men
- Micronauts Special Edition (1983) 2 - see DTC 61
- Marvel Fanfare (1982) 12 - part 3 of the Black Widow: Web of Intrigue story by Ralph Macchio, George Perez, and Al Milgrom; I've got the collected edition but not the acutal issue
More on Assistant Editors Month and this issue of Captain America
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