Descrizione
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CAPITAN AMERICA EDITORIALE CORNO
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1973
in questo numero due storie complete di CAP dove il superpatriota mascherato e scudato continua a collaborare con gli agenti dello S.H.I.E.L.D. ma lo pagano davvero poco e non gli versano nemmeno i contributi, se lo sapeva prima allora erano meglio il SISMI o il SISDE
contiene inoltre
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X-MEN con la storia che svela passato ed origini del Professor X
CONDIZIONI : OTTIME, QUALCHE PICCOLA MACCHIOLINA IN COPERTINA, L’ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
GRANDISSIMA DISPONIBILITA’ DI TUTTI I SUPEREROI CORNO E NON
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Agent-13
- Nick Fury
- Dum Dum Dugan
- Tony Stark
- Bucky Barnes (In an illusion or vision)
Villains:
- “Gunner” Gates
- Turk and Whitey, goons
- Red Skull (In an illusion or vision)
- AIM (In an illusion or vision)
- Nazis (In an illusion or vision)
Locations:
Locations:
Synopsis
Captain America has burst in on the hideout of mobster “Gunner” Gates, defeating his goons, Cap makes quick work on them, and proclaims that this is his last mission. Rolling the clock back to earlier in the day, we learn that Agent-13 had called Captain America out on a date in his civilian identity of Steve Rogers.
During their date, Steve tries to propose to Agent-13, an offer she declines because her duty to SHIELD.
After their date had ended, Steve resolved that his next battle as Captain America would be his last.
Returning to the present, we see Captain America defeating “Gunner” Gates, and then proclaiming to the world and the press that he is retiring and revealing his secret identity.
At SHIELD headquarters, Nick Fury is sent Captain America’s shield, and Agent-13 is upset blaming herself for Cap’s retirement.
When she explains the situation to Fury, Fury allows her to go to him if she wants. Elsewhere, Tony Stark has gone with Rogers to fit Steve with some suits before bidding him farewell.
Finally his own man, Steve Rogers stops to reflect on the life he lived before one last time…
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Nick Fury
- Dum Dum Dugan
- unnamed SHIELD agents
Villains:
- Sniper
- Bull, a goon
Other Items:
Locations:
Items:
Synopsis
Following Captain America’s retirement, people all over New York have been dressing up as the hero in hopes of becoming his replacement, additionally he has become a target of every criminal now that his secret identity has become public knowledge.
SHIELD then enacts an intricate plan to not only convince Steve Rogers to become Captain America once more, but in order to stop a sniper from killing Steve Rogers.
After the whole episode, Steve agrees to resume his identity of Captain America.
Featured Characters:
Villains:
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
The X-Copter
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
Deciding that this Stranger is a potentially bigger menace than Magneto, the Professor gathers the X-Men and they fly out in their helicopter to find this being before he can act out again.
They find the forest where the Stranger had taken Toad and Magneto and find the two evil mutants still bound. The Stranger them appears from the X-Men and reveals his true form, telling them that he is a stranger from beyond the stars.
Telling the X-Men that he has developed an interest in human mutation, he teleports away with Magneto and Toad so that he might examine this phenomenon on his own world. The Stranger leaves the X-Men with the police arriving, prompting the outlaw heroes to flee the scene as quickly as possible.
Later that day, Cyclops and Professor X are in the Professor’s study where the Professor removes the place cards of Magneto, Toad and Mastermind of the list of mutants that might pose a threat. No sooner that he has done this the computer alarm goes off warning the Professor and Cyclops of a coming threat that is heading right toward them.
Notes
This issue features the final appearance of the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The Stranger leaves Earth with Magneto and the Toad at the end of the story.
Trivia
The title is ironic. Magneto’s triumph is that he finds the Stranger before the X-Men do.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Dr. Kurt Marko – (Only in flashback), (First appearance), (Death)
- Sharon Xavier-Marko – (Only in flashback), (First appearance)
Villains:
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed X-Mansion staff – (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed clergyman
- Unnamed high school students – (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Korea – (Only in flashback)
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- Temple of Cyttorak – (Only in flashback), (First appearance)
Items:
- Cyclops’ Visor, version 1
- Cerebro
- Crimson Gem of Cyttorak – (Only in flashback), (First appearance)
Synopsis
Cerebro is calling out an intruder alert prompting the X-Men to dawn their uniforms and come to the Professor’s study to learn who this mysterious intruder is.
Telling his charges that whoever is approaching the mansion is extremely powerful, he sends the group out to set up defenses including an ice wall, live-wire lined trench and fence posts rigged with grenades. When the X-Men return to the Professor, they are shocked to learn that their attacker is none other than Xavier’s own brother.
The Professor tells his X-Men that his father was a nuclear research scientist who was accidentally killed during a nuclear bomb test in the New Mexico desert. During his father’s funeral, Kurt Marko — his father’s assistant — would come to comfort Xavier’s mother.
However, the young Charles, already developing mental abilities, could read Kurt’s mind and learn of his less than covets intentions to take his mother and his father’s wealth, two things that Marko had become envying of. Shortly thereafter, Kurt would move into the Xavier mansion, and marry Charle’s mother.
Kurt became a ruthless and verbally abusive step-parent and would shun his new family for his work, during this time Kurt’s true motives would come out. One day, Kurt would be thrown into a fury when his own son from a previous marriage, Cain, when Kain would come to the Xavier Mansion after yet another expulsion from school. Cain would turn out to be a cruel tormentor to young Charles.
The Professor’s narrative is interrupted when Cain’s advancement on the mansion progresses, easily smashing through the ice wall put up by Iceman, much to the X-Men’s surprise. Charle’s continues the story of his youth: He would explain one day that he would overhear Kurt and Cain arguing over money. When Cain would suggest that Kurt had orchestrated the death of Charles’ father (an accusation that Kurt would flatly deny) Charles would enter and confront Kurt. During the moment of tension, Cain would try to throw chemicals at Charles, however Kurt would attempt to stop them sending the volatile brew crashing to the floor and causing an explosion and fire. Kurt would carry the two boys out of the blast, and having been mortally wounded in the blast, would beg Charles to believe that his father’s death was only an accident before dying.
As Cain manages to break past the trench and live-wire trap on the mansion grounds, Charles plays for time to finish the final part of his story. Charles explains that by his adulthood he found that his mental powers (which by this point have rendered him bald) could allow him to have an advantage over other students, however he decides against it. Xavier would then decide to challenge his body, as his mind was already vastly superior and would get into sports. His trophy winnings would earn the ire of Cain who would push Charles too far one day and the two would get into a fight which Charles would easily win due to his superior fighting skill. Some days later, Cain would attempt to make Charles cry out in fear by driving recklessly. He would only succeed in making the car drive out of control and smash through a detour sign and down a cliff. Cain would bail out, but Charles wouldn’t be so lucky, however Charles would tell his X-Men that he was able to erect a mental shield around himself to protect him from the crash.
Outside the mansion, Cain finishes with the live wire and still manages to get past the grenades and gas traps that were set out for him. With their attacker mere feet away, Iceman puts an ice barrier over the window of Xavier’s study to allow the Professor to tell the final part of his story: How the now adult Cain and Charles would be enlisted in the military and would be sent to fight in the Korean War. The two would be separated from their unit and would be forced to seek refuge in a cave to escape enemy fire. Inside the cavern Charles and Cain would discover the long lost temple of Cyttorak. The greedy Cain would grab for a crimson gem that was left before an altar. Upon contact the gem would absorb itself into Cain’s body transforming him into a hulking form.
The transformation would cause a cave in which Charles would flee from and Cain would seemingly perish in.
Finishing his story, Charles realizes that this is far from the case and that Cain has finally dug himself out from the cave and sought out his brother for revenge. With the last of the outer defenses the X-Men would seal the mansions front door with a near impervious steel plate and wait for Cain’s next move. Much to the X-Men’s surprise, Cain is able to smash through the supposedly indestructible steel wall and easily knock the X-Men aside. Revealing himself for the first time in years, Charles looks at his brother — garbed in a special mystical armor — and calls him a Juggernaut.
Notes
- Xavier claims that he was able to put up a mental shield to protect him from a car crash caused by Cain Marko. As Xavier is not a telekinetic, this would be impossible.
- Xavier and Cain enlisted in the military and take part in the Korean War. Due to Marvel’s sliding time scale, this historical reference is to be considered topical. Recent editions of the Marvel Handbook state that the two participated in a “military conflict” in Korea, and no longer specify it was the Korean War of the 1950’s.
Trivia
- Professor X’s full name ‘Charles Xavier’ is revealed in this issue. We also learn his father’s name was Brian, and his mother was named Sharon. Both died during Xavier’s childhood.
- The back-story of Professor X’s flashbacks of Alamagordo, New Mexico in this story will be revisited in X-Men Vol 2 #12 & 13 (in Italy in IXMP 269-270)
- The name of the atomic test site city is misspelled as “Alamagordo” instead of the correct name “Alamogordo”.
- All of the X-Men learn of the existence of Cerebro.
- Cyttorak had previously been mentioned in Doctor Strange stories.
