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| Poster from the 1944 movie serial! |
Movie serial authority (and occasional comic book writer) Don Glut pitched a story to Marvel about how Captain America and Bucky ended up working on the Republic Pictures movie serial in order to stop a plot by the Red Skull to sabotage the film's production!
The story, told in flashback, began as Private Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes went on leave...
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| "Democracy Pictures" = Republic Pictures |
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| "Sundown Dawson" = Sunset Carson, noted 1940s Western b-movie actor. |
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| "Lyle Dekker" = Howard & Theodore Lydecker, Republic Pictures' SFX wizards |
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| "Glenn Reeper" = stuntman Dale Van Sickel. "Whit Spencer" = directors William Whitney & Spencer Bennett. Everything (except the reason for no Bucky in the serial) is true! |
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| "Tim Irons" = stuntman Tom Steele |
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| "Jet-Man" poster in panel one refers to the "Rocket Man" serial! |
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| The REAL Lydecker Brothers were NOT Nazi agents! ;-) |
We're ending today's entry on (what else?) a cliffhanger!
But, it's not just a make-believe one as things are about to turn deadly on-set!
Tune in tomorrow for both
1) the astounding conclusion
2) and some more background info about the movie serial!
1) the astounding conclusion
2) and some more background info about the movie serial!
or these kool dvds and video cassettes from Amazon...
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