Captain's Library: CAPTAIN AMERICA "Adventures of Captain America" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

A flashback to 1944 reveals how Captain America and Bucky were sent to investigate rumors that Nazis were attempting to sabotage production of the Captain America movie serial!
When the actor playing Cap is shot and wounded during filming, the real CA steps in to take his place!
And it turns out, the rumors were TRUE...

Dekker had gotten away, and survived until the "present day" (1977) where he...well that's a story for another time.
Story by movie serial expert, animation scripter, and occasional comic book writer Don Glut.
Art by Marvel stalwarts Sal Buscema and Joe Sinnott.
Here's a special Captain Video bonus; a feature from 1964's HTF On the Scene Presents SuperHeroes! one-shot magazine about the real reel-life Captain America...

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Captain's Library: CAPTAIN AMERICA "Adventures of Captain America" Part 1

Poster from the 1944 movie serial!

We're presenting a slightly-different story this week, a fictional tale on the real-life filming of the reel-life Captain America serial from 1944!

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...

"Democracy Pictures" = Republic Pictures

"Sundown Dawson" = Sunset Carson, noted 1940s Western b-movie actor.

"Lyle Dekker" = Howard  & Theodore Lydecker, Republic Pictures' SFX wizards

"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!

"Tim Irons" = stuntman Tom Steele

"Jet-Man" poster in panel one refers to the "Rocket Man" serial!

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!

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