Descrizione
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CAPITAN AMERICA EDITORIALE CORNO
da sempre il sogno americano offre una gamma di possibilità sterminate ed inimmaginabili per riuscire ad affermarsi e sfondare nella vita, infatti negli Stati Uniti chi non ha voglia di faticare può scegliere tra tre alternative: fare il pornodivo, la rockstar, oppure il super-eroe.
non particolarmente dotato per quel che riguardava le dimensioni dell’ attrezzo nè per le sue prestazioni endurance, e soprattutto essendo irrimediabilmente e scandalosamente stonato, Steve Rogers optò per la terza soluzione, e si dedicò all’ attività di buffone mascherato, indossando un bel costume tutto a stelle e strisce proprio come la bandiera della Bolivia
non essendo mai stato un modello di continuità e assiduità , cominciò però ben presto a prendersi delle lunghe pause di riposo e a rimanere spesso e volentieri a casa in mutua adducendo le patologie più disparate e insolite grazie a certificati medici compiacenti, mentre in realtà non aveva nulla e stava benissimo, negli anni del dopoguerra marcò visita addirittura per circa 15 anni consecutivi, finchè Stan Lee non lo trovò indecorosamente ubriaco in un bar del bronx nell’ orario della visita fiscale, e lo precettò costringendolo a tornare al lavoro. ma il lupo, si sa, perde il pelo ma non il vizio, e così anche ultimamente ha tirato indietro le sue chiappettine incartapecorite facendo finta di essere morto, gli hanno anche fatto il funerale, ma tanto non ci crede nessuno, si tratta invece certamente di una raffinata strategia di tanatosi mimetica, cui ricorrono anche molti animali come l’ opossum, il cinghiale, l’ insetto foglia o il serpente muso di porcello, insomma è tutta una vile e diabolica scusa per non fare un bel nulla
nelle edicole italiane il n.1 di CAP uscì il 23 Aprile 1973, ovvero alla immediata vigilia della famigerata austerity, e già questa piccola ma non trascurabile coincidenza avrebbe dovuto far toccare le palle a qualcuno all’ interno della Corno. infatti anche qui da noi svernò parecchi anni da vero e proprio mangiapane a tradimento, stipendiato senza fare un cacchio, finchè non ha provveduto la Madia a sistemarlo con uno dei suoi provvidenziali ed inesorabili decreti anti-fannulloni
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1973
per questo albo italiano venne scelta la prima cover realizzata da Kirby (con il Teschio Rosso a bocca aperta come se avesse una paresi alla mandibola) regettata invece in America forse per gli effetti collaterali dell’ inverosimile clima di caccia alle streghe instaurato dal comic code, forse perchè al crapulone scarlatto gli puzzava troppo l’ alito, e comunque fu sostituita con una versione più soft a fauci meno spalancate e tonsille meno in evidenza, mentre l’ originale negli States venne pubblicata solo circa dieci anni dopo su una banale testata di ristampa
contiene inoltre : X-MEN (con la seconda parte del trittico delle Sentinelle)
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, PICCOLO FRAMMENTINO MANCANTE NELL’ANGOLO SUPERIORE DESTRO DI RETROCOPERTINA, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI RESA, NO ADESIVI
LEGENDA STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE
condizioni ECCELLENTI (o anche EDICOLA e/o MAGAZZINO) = si intende un oggetto nuovo e perfetto oppure usato senza difetti e praticamente ancora come nuovo, tenendone per quest’ultimo caso in conto ovviamente la datazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 8,5 e 9,8 (non assegniamo punteggi superiori a 9,8 perchè trattasi di tipi ideali a ns avviso più teorici e scolastici che reali e concreti, ogni manufatto umano in natura ha una percentuale insita e congenita seppur infinitesimale di imperfezione)
condizioni OTTIME = oggetto nuovo (o talora anche usato ma maneggiato e conservato con molta cura) in cui non si riscontra alcun difetto rilevante e degno di nota, tutt’al più qualche minimo segno di lettura o di uso ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 7 e 8,5
condizioni BUONISSIME = oggetto usato (ed in taluni casi anche fondo di magazzino soggetto a piccole usure del tempo) con lievi imperfezioni e difetti poco vistosi, generalmente molto marginali ed appena percepibili ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 5,5 e 7
condizioni MOLTO BUONE = oggetto usato con imperfezioni vistose e difetti abbastanza spiccati, pur se non completamente invalidanti (generalmente specificati nel dettaglio alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto); corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 4 e 5,5
condizioni PIU’ CHE BUONE / MEDIOCRI = oggetto usato con imperfezioni e difetti evidenti, smaccati, madornali ed invalidanti, assolutamente non collezionabile tuttavia idoneo per la semplice lettura o documentazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale inferiore a 4
per eventuali ulteriori dettagli aggiuntivi e specifici si prega di fare sempre riferimento alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto
GRANDISSIMA DISPONIBILITA’ DI TUTTI I SUPEREROI CORNO E NON
This issue features the original rejected Jack Kirby cover for Captain America # 101. Please note the Red Skull’s mouth is slightly opened. Ironically, this rejected image of the Red Skull, pictured on this cover, was used for his Series “A” Marvel Value Stamp.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Werner Von Krimm
- Fourth Sleeper
- Red Skull
Locations:
- US Atlantic Coast
Items:
Synopsis
Recognizing a jeweler as Nazi war criminal Werner Von Krimm, Captain America attacks him, however Nick Fury arrives to stop the fight and lets Krimm go. When the Captain reacts in outrage, Fury explains that he planned a homing device on Von Krimm’s ID card because SHIELD has bigger people to catch.
Elsewhere, we find that the Red Skull is alive and well and at a secret base in the Florida Keys with a bunch of henchmen seeing to awaken a fourth Sleeper robot, of which Von Krimm has the key to activate.
While waiting for Krimm’s arrival, Red Skull explains that he survived his last brush with death (aboard a nuclear submarine set to self destruct) by getting out in a minature escape sub that was built into the model. As Von Krimm flies to the secret island base, he is unaware that he is being followed by Captain America in a SHIELD craft.
Security on the island detects cap and shoots him down.
Cap survives the crash and fights his way through the security, only to be pistol whipped from behind and captured.
Cap is taken to the Red Skull just as Von Krimm is giving him the special crystal to activate the fourth Sleeper.
Cap witnesses the robot awakening: a giant robot that can fire blasts from it’s face and travel through solid matter, it’s mission to walk beneath important US targets and destroy them from underneath. As the Sleeper fights off everything in it’s path and begins it’s swath of destruction across the US, Captain America attempts to get the crystal key from the Red Skull.
Their fight takes them to a tunnel beneath the surface of the island base, causing a breach that fills the tunnel with sea water.
With the creature destroying key strategic bases in the United States, the military finds itself unable to stop them,
When Agent 13 contronts Nick Fury about Cap’s mission, Fury informs her that Cap has died, however Captain America has survived but is unconcious as he floats to the top of the ocean, crystal key in hand…
Notes
Also though it is not clearly stated, it is assumed that Captain America’s base of operations for several months will be in New York City.
| December, 1965 |
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Norton McCoy (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Edna McCoy (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Villains:
- Dr. Bolivar Trask
- Sentinels
- Master Mold (First appearance)
- Sentinels
- Sentinel 1
- Sentinel 2
- Sentinel 3
- Sentinel 3-D
- Sentinel 4
- Sentinel 5
- Sentinel 6
- Sentinel 7
- Sentinel 9
- Sentinel 11
- Sentinel 17
- Sentinel A – (Destroyed)
- Sentinel B – (Destroyed)
- Sentinel C – (Destroyed)
- Sentinel L
- Sentinel O
- Sentinel T
Other Characters:
- Charlie and other young unnamed bullies – (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed driver – (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Unnamed football players and fans – (Only in flashback)
Locations:
Items:
- Cyclops’ Visor, version 1
- Psycho-Probe
Synopsis
Tracking the Sentinels back to their base to save Bolivar Trask, the X-Men are caught off guard by the bases defenses. The X-Men find the defenses too powerful and Professor X calls for a treat. Planning another strategy, the Professor has Iceman create a glider out of ice that he and Beast will ride, followed by the Angel, in an attempt to sneak into the base. As Cyclops blasts the glider into the air with his optic blast, Hank and Bobby are soon captured by coils that spring out of the defense system and taken prisoner, however Angel follows not far behind, however he’s forced to retreat when a flame thrower almost sets him ablaze.
Beast and Iceman are then sealed within a cage and gassed so that the Sentinels can examine them further. Witnessing this, Bolivar Trask denounces the Sentinels plans to take over humanity in order to protect them from the Mutant menace. The Sentinels then take Trask to their creator and the machine he invented to create his Sentinel: The massive Master Mold. Master Mold demands that Trask pledge allegiance to him, or that he will use the weapons cache that Trask had armed them with to destroy half of the United States. When Trask tells the giant robot that the X-Men will stop him, it almost gloats telling Trask that it will examine the two captured Mutants and defeat the others.
Outside of the Sentinel Base, the Professor attempts a different strategy on the Sentinels.
Knowing that his mental powers have some effect on the robots, he exerts all his will causing the Sentinels controlling the weapons within the pill box to to suddenly shut down leaving the remaining Sentinels incapable of action until they get further orders from Master Mold.
As Cyclops, Angel and Marvel Girl break through the defenses to gain entry into the Sentinel Base, the Beast is brought before Master Mold. Master Mold then forces Trask to use a psycho-probe device so that the robot might learn the origins of this Mutant in the hopes of learning a way to defeat Mutants.
Cyclops and the others meanwhile come across a bunch of deactivated Sentinels when they are spotted by one that is still active. With no orders on how to handle the intruders, the Sentinel tells the X-Men to follow it while it goes to get more instructions, the X-Men follow in hopes that it will bring them to it’s leader. As Beast recounts how his mutant powers gave him an advantage as a child over school yard bullies, the other X-Men find Iceman.
Before they can free Bobby however, they are attacked by a team of Sentinels, which they easily defeat and then free their comrade. With Iceman revived, the X-Men continue their search for Hank and Trask. Beast continues his tale explaining that in high school his Mutant powers made him a football star, attracting the attention of Professor X who would come to Hank’s parents and offer to take Hank into his school to train him in the use of his powers. Hank by this point has not implicated Xavier’s affiliation with the X-Men, however Master Mold decides that learning the identity of the X-Men’s leader would provide him the key to destroying Mutants, he probes deeper. Monitoring the situation from safety with his mental powers, Professor X sends out his astral form to try and stop Hank from outing him as the X-Men’s leader.
With the probe stopped, Xavier then attempts to exert his mental will on Master Mold. However, the massive Sentinel detects Xavier’s presence and repels his astral form with micro-electric blasts, sending a weakened Xavier to return to his body.
The X-Men meanwhile continue to fight their way through the armies of Sentinels created by Master Mold. Just when they think they have defeated all threats the group is suddenly pinned to the ground by a strong magnetic force. With the X-Men defeated, Master Mold demands that Bolivar create an army of a thousand Sentinels. Trask refuses, and Master Mold orders his minions to grab hold of Trask and prepare to force him to do Master Mold’s bidding. Trask comes to the realization that he was a fool in creating the Sentinels because he traded one perceived menace for an all to real one.
Notes
- The origin that Beast explains in this tale contradicts a later story explaining Beast’s origins between X-Men #49–52 (in Italy in CAPC # 51-56) that accounts Xavier’s recruiting of Beast into the X-Men following Hank’s encounter with the evil Conquistador.
Trivia
- Werner Roth helped pencil this issue under the pseudonym Jay Gavin.
- It is stated in this issue that the Sentinels do not have any feelings as they are robots. However, they apparently feel Professor X’s mental blast as they groan in pain.
- Professor X states there are things called “thought particles” and he bombards Beast with them.
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“Prophet of Doom” / PROFETA DELLA FINE !
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Synopsis
A man future arrives in the present day in order to set himself up as ruler. He attempts to extort 100 million dollars from the Secretary General of the United Nations only to be shocked when the Secretary reveals that he too is from the future and that there are agents planted in every era in order to apprehend criminals who may attempt to alter the course of events.
