{"id":591,"date":"2006-01-08T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2006\/01\/08\/captain-america-193-the-madbomb-screamer-in-the-brain\/"},"modified":"2006-01-08T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T00:30:00","slug":"captain-america-193-the-madbomb-screamer-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/591","title":{"rendered":"Captain America #193 [1976] &#8211; The Madbomb &#8211; Screamer in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby&#8217;s big return to one of his greatest creations is trumpeted on the cover like very few credits at Marvel ever had been before (&#8220;King Kirby is Back &#8212; And Greater Than Ever&#8221;).  This issue starts the &#8220;Madbomb&#8221; story that would carry the book up to #200, as Cap and the Falcon first find themselves in the middle of a spontaneous riot in the middle of the city, the result of an experimental device, powered by an artificial brain which induces madness, from a secret organization that SHIELD has been tracking, without much luck.  A SHIELD agent brings Cap and the Falcon in to help, but not before they&#8217;re made to run a &#8220;Panic Course&#8221; in order to prove their identities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/ca193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1955\" title=\"ca193\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/ca193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/ca193.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/ca193-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Passing the course in record time, of course, they&#8217;re now cleared to be briefed by Henry Kissinger (yeah, I always thought that was a bit weird), who informs them that after a few trial runs, like the one they witnessed, the enemy is planning an attack with a &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Madbomb the size of a house, powerful enough destroy the US.<\/p>\n<p>I really like this issue, and the whole storyline, just so bold and full of non-stop action and new ideas.  I&#8217;m glad it was finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0785115579\/ref=nosim\/jackkirbywebl-20\">reprinted <\/a> a while back.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Giacoia inks the 18-page story, while John Romita inks the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1976<\/p>\n<p>An aside, I just checked my hitcounter and saw I passed 100,000 sometime in the past week, since I added the counter about a year ago.  Pretty modest by some weblog standards, but 250-300 hits a day is more than I ever expected.  Thanks to everyone who dropped by and everyone who linked to this place, it&#8217;s always appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby&#8217;s big return to one of his greatest creations is trumpeted on the cover like very few credits at Marvel ever had been before (&#8220;King Kirby is Back &#8212; And Greater Than Ever&#8221;). This issue starts the &#8220;Madbomb&#8221; story that would carry the book up to #200, as Cap and the Falcon first find themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}