CAPTAIN AMERICA #183: Post-Secret Empire

[starwolf_oakley]

For some reason, seeing pages of CIVIL WAR II: THE OATH and hearing about the upcoming SECRET EMPIRE story got me thinking about the first Nomad Story. Specifically a part of the end.



CAPTAIN AMERICA #183 took place while Steve Rogers was the Nomad. (He was depressed that Number One of the Secret Empire turned out to be a high-ranking White House official who might have been Richard Nixon, who knows?)





My WORD that is an unusual last panel on that page.

Nomad spends most of the issue going around Manhattan looking for the Falcon.



After stopping another "bank panic," Nomad finds out some people have their own theories about what happened to Captain America.



Committee To Regain America's Principles whole deal was to discredit Captain America.

Nomad is a little surprised that the post-Watergate era had turned into the "Rise of the Conspiracy Theorists."



Nomad follows Redwing to a dead guy in a Captain America costume. Nomad freaks out, shouting it is Roscoe.
http://marvel.com/universe/Captain_America_%28Roscoe%29

A beaten-up Falcon is also there, explaining the Red Skull showed up and was angry Roscoe wasn't "the real" Captain America.



This part I find a little odd. Cap fought Bunds and various American villains in World War II. And Steve just couldn't "get" that the bad guys could disguise themselves as good guys?





After this was the "The Red Skull used the Cosmic Cube to turn Snap Wilson into the Falcon" story. So... yeah.
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4774963.html

Regarding the Secret Empire, the were originally an off-shoot of Hydra. (As was A.I.M. and T.H.E.M.) The "Council of Nine" from "Agent Carter" was supposed to be the MCU's version of the Secret Empire.

Comments

[crinos]

Jeez, what the fuck is up with the rag doll physics in this? Its like it was written in Garry's mod.... Like fifty years before Garry's mod existed.

[cygnia]

Frank Robbins' art has always been distracting -- and those chins! My gawd, even Bruce Campbell would think those chins are too much!

[razsolo]

"Luke Cage is a black guy, he oughtta know where Sam is!"

Yeesh, some stories do NOT age well lol...

[skjam]

Even Cap admits it's sketchy. ("There are only three black superheroes in existence, and T'Challa's in Africa this week. So I must try Luke Cage!")

[scorntx]

I don't know if it's because of growing up on more recent comics, but the lengths superheroes went to keep their secret identities back in the day are... torturous.
Like, not knowing people you work with not know who you are.
Just don't get the logic behind that (beyond "NO ONE MUST KNOW!").

(And because it's hard to resist...)
-"Number One of the Secret Empire turned out to be a high-ranking White House official who might have been Richard Nixon. Who knows?"-

Not even Captain America knows who is Number One.

[cygnia]

But he was Number Six... ;)