| Characters |
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; The Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]; A.I.M.; Wolfgang; The Keeper |
| Synopsis |
Cap rescues a pilot whose plane was shot out of the sky, only to discover he's a member of A.I.M., and he tells Cap about A.I.M.'s "supreme achievement"--The Cosmic Cube--which has been stolen by it's "keeper," who's taking it to his new master...The Red Skull! Watching via remote camera, The Skull uses a "neuro brain-trap device" to brainwash his loyal follower, Wolfgang, into blowing his own brains out! Using an "experimental manned missile" from SHIELD, Cap catches up to The Keeper and leaps in mid-air onto his jet plane. As they battle, the hypnotized man hits the ejector switch, and the two parachute down to a remote island, in view of The Skull. The evil Nazi gains the advantage by telling Cap he was the one who gave the orders that resulted in Bucky's death back in 1945. Gaining the Cosmic Cube, which can "convert thought waves into material action"...he wills The Keeper into another dimension. Cap realizes his foe has now become invincible! |
| Genre |
Superhero |
| Script |
Stan Lee; Jack Kirby (co-plot) |
| Pencils |
Jack Kirby |
| Inks |
Don Heck |
| Letters |
Artie Simek |
| Notes |
Part 2 of 3. The palm magnets Cap uses to latch onto the Keeper's jet were later used by Nick Fury in STRANGE TALES #166 (March 1968). Synopsis, notes, and other corrections submitted by Henry Kujawa via GCD Errors list (August 2007). |
| Reprinted |
in Marvel Double Feature (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (June 1974) [minus two pages, and other changes]; in Captain America Sentinel of Liberty (Simon and Schuster, 1979 series) #nn (1979); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #14 (1990); in Essential Captain America (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (July 2000); in Marvel Masterworks: Captain America (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) |