{"id":934,"date":"2006-10-19T01:19:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T01:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/934"},"modified":"2006-10-19T01:19:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T01:19:05","slug":"captain-america-annual-3-1976-the-thing-from-the-black-hole-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/934","title":{"rendered":"Captain America Annual #3 [1976] &#8211; The Thing from the Black Hole Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cap battles aliens out in the country in this issue, called by a farmer who, in an odd throw-away set-up line, called Cap after seeing him on a talk-show debating the topic of super-heroes, fantasies and UFOs.  So that&#8217;s what Cap does between battling super-villains.  Anyway, the first alien, called only the Captive, is being pursued by others, and manages to convince Cap and the farmer that he was an innocent being held in a black hole for a million years.  Seems to me Cap is being unusually trusting, until the farmer is killed, as the Captive reveals himself to be the last of an evil race of life-energy sucking parasites.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image933\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/10\/CaptainAmericaAnnual31976.jpg\" alt=\"CaptainAmericaAnnual31976.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cap doesn&#8217;t take well to being duped, and is able to disable the Captive, allowing the aliens to take him and shoot him out into a nova.  Later Cap makes a report to the government, who decide to hush up the incident.  There&#8217;s even a reference to Cap fighting the Kree and the Skrulls, which I&#8217;m guessing was added by someone in New York.<\/p>\n<p>A pretty decent story, overall, although depending a bit on Cap being overly trusting.  A lot of very neat bits of art, from the various alien designs and spaceships, and an interesting precursor to some of the themes in Captain Victory in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Inking on the 35-page story is by Frank Giacoia and John Verpoorten, the cover is inked by Giacoia.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap battles aliens out in the country in this issue, called by a farmer who, in an odd throw-away set-up line, called Cap after seeing him on a talk-show debating the topic of super-heroes, fantasies and UFOs. So that&#8217;s what Cap does between battling super-villains. Anyway, the first alien, called only the Captive, is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-934","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\/934","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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}