Captain America, #616 Newsstand

Published: May 2011

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Captain America #616

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Story 1 1 page superhero

"The world's first super-soldier."

Characters
  • Captain America [Steve Rogers] (origin)
  • Professor Erskine
  • Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]
  • Baron von Strucker
Credits and Indicia (1)
Story 2 1 page
Characters
  • Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Credits
Reprint Notes

from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #1 (splash page of the first story)

Gulag [Part 1]
Story 3 15 pages superhero
Storyline

Bucky finds himself not only amongst indifferent jailers, but also in close contact with someone who holds a personal grudge against him.

Characters
  • James Buchanan Barnes [also as Winter Soldier (in flashback)]
  • Ursa Major
  • Steve Rogers (flashback)
  • Warden
  • Nicolai
  • Yuri Petrovich [also as Crimson Dynamo (in flashback)]
Must There Be a Captain America?
Story 4 15 pages superhero
Storyline

Steve thinks back to the reasons why there has to be a Captain America.

Characters
  • Steve Rogers [also as Captain America (in flashback)]
  • Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes] (flashback)
  • Agent 13 [Sharon Carter]
  • Sgt. Nick Fury (flashback)
  • Red Skull (flashback)
  • Invaders [Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (flashback)
  • Toro (flashback)
  • Sub-Mariner [Namor] (flashback)]
  • Master Man (flashback)
  • Avengers [Thor
  • Iron Man [Tony Stark]
  • Hawkeye
  • Quicksilver]
  • Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom]
  • Falcon [Sam Wilson]
  • Redwing
  • Wally Young
Story 5 2 pages superhero

"Seventy years ago this month..."

Characters
  • Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Credits
Story Notes

Aparo's sketch is dated: '99. Swan's sketch is dated: 3 '94.

Opaque Shadows
Story 6 14 pages superhero
Storyline

Steve goes to buy a piece of artwork from his past and finds an old sweethearts' granddaughter.

Characters
  • Captain America [Steve Rogers]
  • Norman Rockwell
  • Mrs. Jennifer Grimaldi
  • Mike Grimaldi
  • Jenny
Story Notes

The wartime flashbacks occur in 1945, a "few weeks" before Cap disappears. The flashback plot (a wounded US soldier is replaced by a Nazi agent) is similar to the League of Hate plot in the first story in Captain America Comics #49 (August 1945).

Spin
Story 7 12 pages superhero
Storyline

Cap comes to help a community from storm damage, but finds the damage had been done a long time ago.

Characters
  • Captain America [Steve Rogers]
  • Nate
  • Lisa
  • Darla
  • Jimmy
  • Mr. Haney
  • Mr. Haney's son
Credits
Operation: Tooth Fairy
Story 8 12 pages superhero
Storyline

The Invaders are after Baron Blood, but he gets his fangs into Cap instead.

Characters
  • Invaders [Captain America [Steve Rogers]
  • Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes]
  • Human Torch [Jim Hammond]
  • Namor the Sub-Mariner
  • Toro]
  • Viktor Oberheuser
  • Baron Blood
  • Nazis
  • Dr. Leo Jacobson
Credits
The Exhibit
Story 9 12 pages superhero
Storyline

Steve meets up with a man who may or may not be a clone of Adolf Hitler.

Characters
  • Master Man (as drawing)
  • Baron Zemo (as drawing)
  • Red Skull (as drawing)
  • Baron Strucker (as drawing)
  • Steve Rogers [as Captain America (in flashbacks)]
  • Edmund Heidler
  • Sharon Carter
  • Adolf Hitler (flashback)
  • Hate-Monger (flashback)
  • Arnim Zola (flashback)
Crossfire
Story 10 12 pages superhero
Storyline

In June 1944, Cap and Jack get stuck in a French town sieged by German troops.

Characters
  • Captain America [Steve Rogers]
  • Union Jack [John Fallsworth]