Descrizione
CAPITAN AMERICA EDITORIALE CORNO
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1973
IN QUESTO NUMERO 2 EPISODI COMPLETI DI CAP
contiene inoltre : X – MEN nel loro primo storico team-up con (tro) I VENDICATORI
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, DI BUSTA , PICCOLE ABRASIONI NELLA PARTE INFERIORE DI COPERTINA SOTTO AL TITOLO
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“If Bucky Lives…!” / IN TRAPPOLA !
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- A Robot of Bucky Barnes
- Edwin Jarvis
Locations:
- Avengers Mansion
- Sea Gull Isle (off the coast of Nova Scotia)
Items:
- Supersonic Cruiser
- Captain America’s Shield
- Levitation Ray (First appearance)
Synopsis
At Avengers Mansion, Captain America receives a distress call from somebody who appears to be Bucky, telling Cap that he’s a prisoner on Gull Island. As Cap races to the rescue, little does he know that the owner of the high tech base there has just recruited the Swordsman and Power Man to face off against Captain America upon his arrival.
Arriving there, Captain America must then face off against both costumed villains in order to save Bucky’s life. Easily defeating them, Captain America next finds himself trapped in an indestructible transparent bubble. Now a helpless prisoner, the Swordsman and Powerman’s employer reveals himself to Captain America… This story is continued next issue..
Notes
- The Swordsman and Power Man previously appeared in Avengers #30 (in Italy in THC # 38-39). They will appear next in Avengers Annual #1 (in Italy in THC # 56).
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“Back From the Dead!” / REDIVIVO !
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
- Red Skull
- Red Skull’s armored robot
- Bucky Barnes (Robot) (Destroyed)
Locations:
- Sea Gull Island
Items:
- Captain America’s Shield
- Cosmic Cube (Only in flashback)
Synopsis
Last issue, Captain America answered a distress call to Gull Island from somebody who appeared to be his old partner Bucky, after fighting the Swordsman and Powerman he was revealed who had hired them: The Red Skull.
Shocked over the Skull’s apparent resurrection, the Skull explains that during their last encounter, although he lost contact with the Cosmic Cube, and unable to find it at the oceans floor, he willed it to provide him with enough oxygen to get out of his armor and swim to the surface, where he then went to Gull Island, which was a secret Nazi hideout built by Hitler during the war.
Wanting to savor Cap’s destruction, he puts the hero in a arena where he is forced to fight robots and various other traps until he is confronted by Bucky himself. Fighting, Cap easily defeats “Bucky” who turns out to be just a robot created by the Red Skull. Before Cap can do anything, the Red Skull initiates walls that close in, threatening to crush Captain America.
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“The Uncanny Threat of…Unus, the Untouchable!” / UNUS , L’ INTOCCABILE ! (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
Locations:
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- Corner of Broadway & 46th St
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Items:
Vehicles:
- X-Men’s twin-rotor helicopter
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
Beast explains that the device is designed to increase Unus’ powers, so the X-Men attack him believing that he has joined the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Beast tries to explain his strategy but the others won’t listen, so he grabs his device and jumps out the window. At the gym, Beast uses the device on Unus causing his powers to increase. The X-Men arrive at the gym and find that Unus’ has already been given increased powers.
At first he is very pleased with his stronger powers, but quickly realizes that he can no longer control them. He quickly learns that he cannot touch anything, including food and the telephone to call Magneto and Mastermind. Beast makes a deal with Unus to reverse the device’s effects as long as he does not join the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Unus agrees and returns to his wrestling career after being treated, and Beast returns to being a member of the X-Men.
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“Enter, the Avengers” / ED ECCO I VENDICATORI !
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Quists (First appearance)
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- Lucifer (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Matilda & Samuel, a couple on cruise-ship
Locations:
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- Lucifer’s hidden cavern
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Items:
Vehicles:
- Unnamed freighter
- Professor X’s cave-exploring wheelchair
Synopsis
In the Northern Atlantic a freighter is on a collision course with an iceberg. Suddenly two red beams of light shoot out from the front of the ship and destroy the iceberg. Scott Summers and the rest of the X-Men head back to their cabin before anyone can see where the strange light came from. The X-Men attend to Scott who became weary after having to use his powers so rigorously. Scott then explains to the other X-Men that Professor Xavier had told him to come to Europe.
Suddenly another transmission from Professor Xavier comes in telling his students that he has located his foe, Lucifer in a cave in the Balkans. He tells the X-Men that he wants them to come to the cave so that if he is unable to stop Lucifer, then they can finish him off instead. Professor Xavier begins to make his way into the cave, but is engulfed by a cyclone that places him right in front of Lucifer. Professor Xavier pulls a gun on Lucifer, but learns that if he pulled the trigger the world would be doomed.
The X-Men arrive in a Bavarian Village where they are met by the Avengers. The Avengers inform them that they are there investigating strange vibrations in the ground detected by Thor’s hammer. Lucifer reveals to Professor Xavier that he has built a thermal detonator attached to his heartbeat so that if he were harmed or killed, it would blow up causing worldwide damage. Lucifer knows that the X-Men have arrived in Europe so he fires an ionic ray at them. Professor Xavier is able to warn his students of the incoming ray so that they are able to dodge it. The X-Men are told of Lucifer’s bomb and that Lucifer cannot be harmed. The Avengers arrive at the cave, but refuse to listen to the X-Men’s explanation of why Lucifer cannot be harmed. A battle between the two groups ensues.
Lucifer begins to laugh after seeing the two groups fighting each other. Professor Xavier uses the distraction to his advantage by knocking Lucifer unconscious without changing his heartbeat. Professor Xavier alerts Thor as to what has been happening. Thor informs the rest of the Avengers of Lucifer’s defeat, so they depart.
Professor Xavier leads the X-Men to his location so that they can defuse the bomb. Professor Xavier uses his powers to detect the bomb’s weak point and orders Cyclops to use his power full force but in a hairline beam on the weak spot. The bomb is diffused just before Lucifer wakes up. Lucifer tells them that it took him 10 years to make the bomb. Professor Xavier says that he lost the permanent use of his legs, but Lucifer only suffered a minor setback, then the X-Men leave Lucifer alone in his own cave.
Notes
- In X-Men #1 (in Italy in CAPC # 1-2), Professor Xavier says that he lost the use of his legs in a childhood accident. The full origin of how Professor Xavier lost the use of his legs is given in X-Men#20 (in Italy in CAPC # 22).
- The Avengers appear in the pages of this series for the first time. The Beast will join the Avengers in Avengers #137 (in Italy in THC # 163).
Trivia
- The issue states that Professor X is located underneath the Balkan Mountains. Then the story takes place in a Bavarian village and says the Professor is below them in the mountainside, presumably the Bavarian Alps. These are two different locations. Bavaria located in Germany and Bulgaria in the Balkans.
