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Issue Details

Issue #247
Published July 1980
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Bob Budiansky (Assistant Editor); Jim Salicrup (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)
Notes Letters page replies and brief essay on Captain America by Roger Stern. UPC 0714860245308

Cover Details - "Baron Strucker Strikes!"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Dum Dum Dugan; Baron Strucker
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Joe Rubinstein
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes Cover credits added 2005 by Steven Tice.
Reprinted in Capitaine America (Editions Heritage, 1970 series) #106/107 [re-lettered in French]; in Captain America: War and Remembrance (Second Edition) (Marvel, 2007 series) #nn; in Marvel Premiere Classic (Marvel, 2006 series) #57 (September 2010)

17 page Captain America story "By the Dawn's Early Light!"

Characters FEATURE: Captain America [Steve Rogers](Origin with new details; origin story of #225 invalidated); GUESTS: Nick Fury; Dum Dum Dugan; S.H.I.E.L.D.; VILLAIN: Baron Strucker Robot (Death); CAMEO FLASHBACK: Walter Rogers; CAMEO: Machinesmith
Synopsis Cap heads to S.H.I.E.L.D. looking for info on his true origins and all is revealed as he uncovers his old WWII footlocker which also contains his triangular shield; Baron Strucker tricks Nick Fury and escapes imprisonment but when he goes after Cap and is defeated, it is revealed that he is really a sophisticated robot.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (Co-plot); Roger Stern
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Joe Rubinstein
Colors George Roussos
Letters Jim Novak
Reprinted in Captain America: War and Remembrance (Second Edition) (Marvel, 2007 series) #nn; in Marvel Premiere Classic (Marvel, 2006 series) #57