Captain America, #286 Direct

Published: October 1983

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Issue Contents:
One Man in Search of... Himself!

Story Featuring Captain America

"Welcome to New York City, in the year of our Lord 1991."

Storyline

A clone of Luther Manning comes back in time from 1991 (this changes to 1993 in issue #288) to find the Deathlok cyborg. Steve is supposed to be spending the weekend at Bernie's house when they almost run down Manning. Captain America follows him into an abandoned Brand Corp. building where they come up against Brand soldiers and Deathlok himself.

Story Notes

Two slight alterations in the Captain America: Deathlok Lives reprint are the removal of credits on page 4 and the replacement of the next blurb on page 22 with a thought from the Luther Manning clone from the first page of Captain America #287 which is also not reprinted.

A Cracker Jack Story

Ad Featuring Cracker Jack

"Okay, Scottie!"

Story Notes

Inside front cover. Comic strip ad for the Cracker Jack snack.

Letter Column Featuring Letters to the Living Legend

"Dear Marvel, Captain America #282 was very good."

Story Notes

Letters from: Chris Harrison, Tom Long, Angie Cashdollar (Mike Zeck's aunt) and Ralph Griffith; also includes the question of the month, a special announcements section on Captain America Annual #7 and Captain America #287, and a small promo for Thor by Walt Simonson.

In-House Column Featuring Bullpen Bulletins , In-House Column Featuring Mighty Marvel Checklist , In-House Column Featuring Hype Box

"Al Milgrom quits!"

Credits
Story Notes

Items about how Al Milgrom has quit editing except for Marvel Fanfare and is now focusing on his jobs as writer/artist (exclusively for Marvel) and spending time with his family, Carl Potts is now editing The Defenders, Doctor Strange and the Hulk and is putting out the new title Alien Legion later this year, Tom DeFalco has been moved up to Executive Editor and is charge of many things, including editing movie adaptations and special projects such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Life of Pope John Paul II and will be developing new titles and series, possibly including a line of comics for young kids, former assistant editor Danny Fingeroth has been moved up to replace Tom DeFalco as editor of the Amazing Spider-Man, the Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Tales while continuing to edit Ka-Zar and the assistant editors will be in charge of the comics produced for sale in September as the regular editors will all be out of town for conventions (and this worries Jim Shooter who thinks there is a conspiracy by them that will result in some strange comics in September). Also includes what appears to be a self-portrait of Carl Potts. Marvel checklist for comics listed with a synopsis are Avengers #236, Cloak & Dagger #1, The New Mutants #8, Marvel Tales #156, Marvel Team-Up #134, What If #41, Marvel Team-Up Annual #6, Marvel Super Special (Krull) #28, The Kree/Skrull War #2, Coyote #3 and Marvel Graphic Novel (Dazzler: The Movie!) #8. Appears between pages 21 and 22 of the story.

Star Frontiers

Ad Featuring TSR Hobbies , Ad Featuring Star Frontiers

"...from the very center of the great spiral galaxy..."

Storyline

An alien entity travels all the way to Earth to purchase the Star Frontiers role playing game.

Credits
Story Notes

Comic strip ad for the Star Frontiers role playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc., appears between pages 3 and 4 of the story.

Ad Featuring BurgerTime Video Game

"BurgerTime home video game coming soon"

Story Notes

Back cover.