FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: MARVEL’S CAPTAIN AMERICA BY DAN JURGENS

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Captain America by Dan Jurgens Vol. 1

Marvel has been rummaging with their library as well as gathering up practically every run of Captain America worth collecting to make specific there’s something for everybody in the ramp as much as the July 22 release of Captain America: very first Avenger. nothing wrong keeping that because it provides fans of all ages lots of option stuff. We spoke a few months back about the Captain America Omnibus which brings the 1960s material back in one nifty volume, however this month we’re taking a look at one more age entirely.

In the late 1990s, marvel made the devastating decision to send Cap as well as his fellow Avengers off to one more realm in Onslaught; letting the picture Comics creators have their method with them with wildly differing levels of success. The experiment, though, concerned a merciful end as well as our heroes returned to the appropriate marvel world as well as Cap was given a new lease on life with a brand new series. mark Waid, whose outstanding work on the series pre-Onslaught still lingered in fans’ mind, was the apparent option to helm the third monthly series featuring the Star-Spangled Avenger.

Waid’s run, though, was fraught with problems as well as he wound up leaving the series, thinking about the project a mistake. His mistake, though, was Dan Jurgens’ chance as well as as 2000 began, Jurgens was paired with penciler Andy Kubert beginning with problem #25. That run is now being collected as Captain America by Dan Jurgens volume 1 with the very first ten problems included. The 256-page collection kicks off in style as Captain America, the living sign of freedom, takes on the revamped Hate-Monger, who was at one time a clone of Adolf Hitler.

Jurgens, who was likewise the designer of the post-Onslaught Thor, likewise now being collected, was fortunate in working with Andy Kubert, who was really coming into his own as an artist. Coupled with inker Dan Green, the book was visually strong. The present design template of Cap’s visual appearance was being honed during this period as well as the work still looks fresh.

To his credit, the writer took full advantage of Cap’s deep supporting cast. many of the stories pair the hero with his long-time partner the Falcon, however many of the stories in this collection likewise function his lover, Sharon Carter, her manager Nick Fury (back when he headed the genuine S.H.I.E.L.D.), as well as even USAgent, a doppelganger who never rather in shape into the marvel Universe.

After that introductory three-parter well set the stage, Jurgens deftly shifts the setting to much more all-out action. Sharon has gone missing as well as the path takes the Avenger to the savage Land in a four-parter that likewise guest stars Ka-Zar. There’s one fill-in problem by Brent Anderson, who remarkably drew the Bruce Jones-written series much more than 15 years earlier – something likewise well worth collecting. Cap as well as Ka-Zar, together with Shanna as well as Zabu of course, handle count Nefaria in a fast-moving serial.

There’s a fantastic one-off story uniting Jurgens with his Superman associate Jerry Ordway, which enabled for a good flashback to WW II, as Cap fought together with Sgt. Fury as well as the shouting Commandos when more. After this, though, Kubert was gone as well as Jurgens handled the penciling responsibilities as well, aided by his long-time inker Art Thibert.

Jurgens well handles the increase as well as autumn of sub-plots so there’s a bubbling S.H.I.E.L.D. secret that introduces the writer’s very first all-new opponent in the series, Protocide, who takes center-stage in the final problems collected right here (and will head-up the second volume whenever that comes). This villain is a very Soldier prototype from a test group pre-dating Steve Rogers.

This may not be the most unforgettable of Cap runs, however the stories are serviceable as well as extremely entertaining comic book reads in the very best sense.

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