{"id":4236,"date":"2017-06-14T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2017-06-15T00:56:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T04:56:13","slug":"lest-we-forget-k025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4236","title":{"rendered":"“Lest We Forget” (k025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Lest We Forget” is a 20-page Kirby story from\u00a0CAPTAIN AMERICA #112 [1969], inked by George Tuska and lettered by Artie Simek.<\/p>\n

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So, the story goes, Jim Steranko takes over CAPTAIN AMERICA from Kirby with #110. Shortly thereafter, for whatever reason, Kirby\u2019s asked to draw #112 on an extremely tight deadline. He\u2019s told the cliffhanger to #111 had Captain America dying. Did they want him to bring Cap back to life? No, they wanted him to keep Cap dead.<\/p>\n

And thus was created the Kirby comic that most closely resembles modern Marvel comics, a full issue where almost nothing happens.<\/p>\n

The story is pretty much that Cap\u2019s mask is fished out of the water, and he\u2019s presumed dead, so Iron Man is informed. Iron Man then goes over Cap\u2019s file, so we get short vignettes of Cap\u2019s original WWII adventures and villains, the classic retro-fitted \u201cdeath of Bucky\u201d bit with Zemo, Cap\u2019s thawing out courtesy of Namor and scenes from his adventures of the previous few years, including such villains as MODOK, Batroc and others.<\/p>\n

So the story is light, it does at least look really good. George Tuska inks, I think the only other work he did with Kirby was finishes on some Cap stories a few years before this, but he does a good job here, presumably on as tight a deadline as Kirby was.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/22655\/#160044
\nESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA #2 [2002]
\nMARVEL MASTERWORKS #64 [2006]
\nCAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS #1 [2011]
\nMARVEL MASTERWORKS – CAPTAIN AMERICA #3 [2014]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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