Comments on: Captain America #112 [1969] – Lest We Forget http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/125 The World's Greatest Comics Artist Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/125/comment-page-1#comment-43 Anonymous Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:31:00 +0000 http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/2004/11/28/captain-america-112-lest-we-forget/#comment-43 I've always had a soft spot for this issue, since as a wee lad of 9, my older brother (who got me interested in comics in the first place, and bought the majority of Marvel comics, as well as other companies), bought this issue off the newsstands. When I saw the issue, I asked my brother: "They're killing Captain America?", he answered, in that warm-hearted older brother tone: "He's not dead, you idiot!" or something to that effect. That fill-in issue by Kirby worked to keep the suspense up, even though it wasn't part of Steranko's plan. Nick Caputo I’ve always had a soft spot for this issue, since as a wee lad of 9, my older brother (who got me interested in comics in the first place, and bought the majority of Marvel comics, as well as other companies), bought this issue off the newsstands. When I saw the issue, I asked my brother: “They’re killing Captain America?”, he answered, in that warm-hearted older brother tone: “He’s not dead, you idiot!” or something to that effect. That fill-in issue by Kirby worked to keep the suspense up, even though it wasn’t part of Steranko’s plan.

Nick Caputo

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