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Issue: Captain America #616
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Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Rated T+
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide, Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/30/2011
Volume: none
Pages: 108
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 75960605652161611
Price: $4.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: Rated T+
Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Tom Brevoort (Editor); Lauren Sankovitch (Associate Editor); Axel Alonso (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Glossy interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Travis Charest (signed)
Travis Charest (signed)
Travis Charest (signed)
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Reprinting
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as Issue 616 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAvengers Extra #5 published January 2013
as Stan Lee présente... [Credits on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Brubaker
Travis Charest
Travis Charest
Justin Ponsor
Virtual Calligraphy [as VC]; Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers] (origin); Professor Erskine; Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]; Baron von Strucker
The world's first super-soldier.
Reprinting
FlagAvengers #1 [1A] published January 2012
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as Origin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Credits and Indicia

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby (illustration)
Joe Simon (illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Reprinting
from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #1 (splash page of the first story)
Miscellaneous
1
Gulag [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Brubaker
Mike Deodato Jr.
Mike Deodato Jr.
Rain Beredo
Virtual Calligraphy [as VC]; Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
James Buchanan Barnes [also as Winter Soldier (in flashback)]; Ursa Major; Steve Rogers (flashback); Warden; Nicolai; Yuri Petrovich [also as Crimson Dynamo (in flashback)]
Bucky finds himself not only amongst indifferent jailers, but also in close contact with someone who holds a personal grudge against him.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Stars Hors-Série #2 published January 2012
as Goulag [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as Gulag [Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
15
Must There Be a Captain America?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Brubaker
Ed McGuinness
Dexter Vines; Ed McGuinness
Val Staples
Virtual Calligraphy [as VC]; Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Steve Rogers [also as Captain America (in flashback)]; Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes] (flashback); Agent 13 [Sharon Carter]; Sgt. Nick Fury (flashback); Red Skull (flashback); Invaders [Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (flashback); Toro (flashback); Sub-Mariner [Namor] (flashback)]; Master Man (flashback); Avengers [Thor; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Hawkeye; Quicksilver]; Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Redwing; Wally Young
Steve thinks back to the reasons why there has to be a Captain America.
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FlagMarvel Stars Hors-Série #2 published January 2012
as Le monde a-t-il besoin d'un Captain America ? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as Must There Be a Captain America? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
15
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jim Aparo (signed); Curt Swan (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Seventy years ago this month...
Reprinting
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
Aparo's sketch is dated: '99.
Swan's sketch is dated: 3 '94.
Opaque Shadows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Howard Chaykin
Howard Chaykin
Howard Chaykin
Edgar Delgado
Virtual Calligraphy [as VC]; Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Norman Rockwell; Mrs. Jennifer Grimaldi; Mike Grimaldi; Jenny
Steve goes to buy a piece of artwork from his past and finds an old sweethearts' granddaughter.
Reprinting
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as Opaque Shadows [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
14
The wartime flashbacks occur in 1945, a "few weeks" before Cap disappears.
The flashback plot (a wounded US soldier is replaced by a Nazi agent) is similar to the League of Hate plot in the first story in Captain America Comics #49 (August 1945).
Spin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Cullen Bunn
Jason Latour
Jason Latour
Rico Renzi
Virtual Calligraphy [as VC]; Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Nate; Lisa; Darla; Jimmy; Mr. Haney; Mr. Haney's son
Cap comes to help a community from storm damage, but finds the damage had been done a long time ago.
Reprinting
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as Spin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAvengers Extra #5 published January 2013
as La Spirale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
Operation: Tooth Fairy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mike Benson
Paul Grist
Paul Grist
Lee Loughridge
Virtual Calligraphy [as VC]; Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Invaders [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Toro]; Viktor Oberheuser; Baron Blood; Nazis; Dr. Leo Jacobson
The Invaders are after Baron Blood, but he gets his fangs into Cap instead.
Reprinting
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as Operation: Tooth Fairy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAvengers Extra #5 published January 2013
as Opération : Conte de fées [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
The Exhibit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Tieri
Paul Azaceta
Paul Azaceta
Matt Wilson
Virtual Calligraphy [as VC]; Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America
Master Man (as drawing); Baron Zemo (as drawing); Red Skull (as drawing); Baron Strucker (as drawing); Steve Rogers [as Captain America (in flashbacks)]; Edmund Heidler; Sharon Carter; Adolf Hitler (flashback); Hate-Monger (flashback); Arnim Zola (flashback)
Steve meets up with a man who may or may not be a clone of Adolf Hitler.
Reprinting
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as The Exhibit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
Crossfire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Kyle Higgins; Alec Siegel
Pepe Larraz
Pepe Larraz
Chris Sotomayor
Virtual Calligraphy [as VC]; Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America; Union Jack
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Union Jack [John Fallsworth]
In June 1944, Cap and Jack get stuck in a French town sieged by German troops.
Reprinting
FlagCaptain America: Prisoner of War #[nn] published February 2012
as Crossfire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12

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