Mark Gruenwald's Captain America Pt. 1

I think it's actually pretty long, like over a hundred issues.

>>89744395
Yikes. I'd rather not then.

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>>89744279
>mfw no storytime.

>>89744279
>How long is this run anyway?
I think he had one of the longest Cap runs ever.

Way to be prepared, OP.

>>89744279
Just try for a dozen issues or so. I believe in you, OP.

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Don't worry OP, I'll do it for you.

Just the first collection, though.

>>89746284
I'd rather you didn't, Trumpster.

Goddammit, I can't delete the thread.

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Coincidentally, I was just reading Roy Thomas' Invaders this morning.

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How y'all doing tonight?

>>89746524
>How y'all doing tonight?
Good and you

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Hey Nomad, I know that feeling of having to choose between your comfy job and fun superheroics.

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>>89746724
Tomorrow's my day off so I'm happy to be able to stay up reading.

>>89746773
>Tomorrow's my day off so I'm happy to be able to stay up reading.
Cool.

>>89746370
YOU CAN'T KEEP HIM FROM MAKING THIS PLACE GREAT YOU LERBRALLL

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>lol so random xD
~Madcap

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>>89746824
I'm not really sure why people keep snapping at me assuming I'm a Trump supporter. I've literally never said a single thing about Trump.

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THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

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What's your price for flight

>>89744279
So this is what Dr. Mindbubble was a reference to. Interesting.

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I feel ya, Nomad.

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>>89747147
jej

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Oh, wow, Secret Wars II, huh. How exciting.

Armadillo was brought back in Yost's Scarlet Spider, IIRC, set right here in my home state!

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In the 80's, a lot of comics fans actually did exactly what Cap is doing here, being so autistic about continuity they would break things down into individual hours.

Not that I'm judging. One of them went on to become Mark Waid, in fact.

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West Coast Avengers, one of my very favorite Marvel comics. It was what got me interested in the Marvel universe outside of Spider-Man.

>>89747437
>West Coast Avengers, one of my very favorite Marvel comics.
I miss Julia.

>>89744279
like 10 fucking years

>>89746284

Finally. Reading.

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>>89744659

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>>89747462
Without a doubt the superior Spider-Woman.

>>89747544
>Without a doubt the superior Spider-Woman.
This

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>>89747544
The last thing I read about her was Grim Hunt, after which I dropped Slott's Spider-Man like a rock so I don't know what happened to her after that.

>>89747608
W-what

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Despite living in Texas I've never actually seen an armadillo. Well, an armadillo that was still alive, that is.

>>89747748
I swear, its one anon who just searches for trans related things. They appeared in a CosmicMuse thread, and a shade thread last week, responding the same way

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>>89747814
What's with storytimes attracting bizarre trolls lately?

>>89744279
>How long is this run anyway?
Um...eleven years worth of Cap issues...

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>>89747867
It's approximately 150 issues if we include crossovers. Which would make it a little over 13 threads to post all of. Which actually isn't as many as I would have guessed.

Keep in mind, this is a pretty legendary Cap run. It introduced US Agent, D-Man, the Serpent Society, Diamondback, Crossbones, and a lot of other Captain America staples.

>>89746906
Don't worry, OP is just a retard. Thanks for doing the story time instead of this lazy cunt.

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FUCK my boss just called and asked me to come in tomorrow.

I will finish the thread, though.

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>>89748030
I was gonna post something tonight anyway and saw this, figured this run would be as good a choice as any.

>>89748099
good stuff Texas anon

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>>89748099
>Bonita
Firebird?

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>>89748155
>But I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into armadillos!

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>>89748170
These classic 80's runs make me so happy. This whole era was just fantastic, both Marvel and DC at the absolute top of their game.

>>89748258
she's a cutie what happened to her

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>>89748308
Eventually gets put on a bus, then gets brought back by Brubaker decades later.

Bernie best Cap love interest

>>89748297
me too, they feel just more substantial that capeshit today
I love all the text bubbles I'm weird

>>89748308
Bernie comes in and out through this run, is kind of forgotten for a while, and then appear in Brubaker run as Bucky's defense lawyer in court. Cap is actually pretty good at keeping his girlfriends alive (Peggy died of natural causes)

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>>89748452
I feel ya. You get so much more story per issue that way.

>>89748465
I bet he a top tier dick game

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>>89748499
Physical perfection, anon.

>>89748524
unless the serum augmented everything except his penis and then all his gfs are just really secretly disappointed thats why they don't get overly attached and fridged

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>>89748524
And here's the proof

>>89748569
oh fuck! are we about to read some X-Men?!

>>89748499
He did fuck a robot.

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>>89748610
Nope, that's going into Secret Warts II. A story for another day.

And another anon has dibs on all the X-Men comics, anyway.

>>89748678
how can one claim dibs on all X-Men comics
f that
when you're done I'm gonna storytime some

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>>89748718
http://desuarchive.org/co/search/username/X-Anon/type/op/

>>89748766
>tfw no anaconda gf

Making coffee, BRB.

>>89744279
>How long is this run anyway?

Like a decade.
I'm in.

>>89746284
Wait, which position is this on the flying chart?

>>89746302
Avengers Identicards seem handy.

>>89746326
Killing Jack Monroe was a mistake, and Bucky being back doesn't really make up for it to me.

>>89748894
who's this Jack Monroe fella

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This is actually not that unusual for Coney Island.

When I lived in New York people always joked that if you go to Coney Island as a tourist, you'll have a good time. If you go while living in or around the city, you'll encounter all the weird shit.

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>>89749033
Nomad, the guy on the cover of the first issue I posted.

>>89748678
>>89748766
Wow, the Serpent Society gets in early.

>>89749033
The Commie Smashin' Bucky of the 1950s!

He got frozen for going crazy along with "Steve Rogers" and later got more or less got debrainwashed and took over Cap's spare Nomad identity.

He had a solo series in the 90s where he fought crime with a dead prostitute's kid strapped to his chest in a Baby Bjorn!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9YFvWiZyuY

This is about the boardwalk in Ocean City (where I spent my summers) but it applies to Coney Island as well.

>>89748308
Gruenwald didn't care too much for her for whatever reason and writes her out fairly quickly in favor of the long redemption/romance arc with Diamondback.

>>89746387
Will Captain America ever date a Jew again?

>>89749116
is that worth storytiming?
he seems like my type of dude

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>>89749157
Depends, is Bucky Jewish?

>>89749188
that fingerhook
he knows how to please a lady
(;

>>89749102

The less racist snake themed super villain group

>>89749185
I'd say so.

>>89746694
Jack's theme song for this storyarc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD2n7Jiy-xY

>>89749225
>>89749225
Based on Unions.

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This guy's a particular type of edgelord. The kind that started wearing gloves and a trenchcoat after The Dark Knight came out.

>>89749344
why doesn't he just rape the Joker

>>89744279
Really long and mostly good.

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Been there, Steve.

>>89749446
maybe he has like brain damage and just can't feel his pain receptors?

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>>89749488
>our promotion of material things contributes to a consumer oriented society, one that places more value on possessions than people
How apeshit would /co/ have gone if this issue came out today?

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>>89749528
Wow, I've actually been in a near identical scenario to Steve here.

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Gonna have to speed up the posting process here if I wanna get to bed on time.

>>89749528
I feel like /co/ has somehow devolved to the point where it no longer understands Cap as the high minded liberal idealist that he's always been.

I blame the Ultimate Universe and it's Captain American Exceptionalism.

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>>89749579
Same as with Superman; he's a champion of the working class, the little guy, of ideals that were synonymous with America in the 30's, being the land of opportunity and the great melting pot and the "bring me your tired, your poor" and so on.

Not an old fashioned goody-good boy scout like many perceive. Ironic considering those kind of values were common in the 50's and 60's when most "modern" heroes were created, and Superman and Cap would have been considered old timey to them for being more liberal.

>>89749528
The problem being that the politics of current Cap are based on the idea that Trump is indistinguishable from the Red Skull. Nobody thinks about it they just shitposting nonsense directly into the comics.

>>89747356
Mark Gruenwald did a lot of that too, in a way that was, IMO, for the best.

As a writer-editor, he spearheaded the OHOTMU and was so respected in house for his continuity rigour that the created the Time Variance Authority as a way for him to appear in comics and make sure timelines weren't falling apart.

>>89749698
this is a good scene

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>>89749595

>>89747437
Ah, back when Mockingbird and Hawkeye were still newly married and fucking each other to dehydration.

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>>89749756
While I don't really agree with any of the politics in it, Spencer is still a great storyteller. I'm perfectly willing to read a story with an opposing viewpoint to my own, even if it is a little cringey at times.

And I think it's safe to say that Cap would dislike Trump, considering Trump's stances are basically the literal opposite of Cap's beliefs as depicted here and in Englehart's run in the 70's. Cap's like Green Arrow in that I find it pretty natural to have a political slant to it that would be out of place in other comics.

>>89748020
D-Man isn't actually orginally from this run- He first showed up in the Thing solo book, in the storyline that introduced the Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation that comes up in this book down the road.

>>89749965
Man, the Serpent Society will always go down as my favorite Cap villains. They're on that level where they aren't super evil threats, but still above throwaway villains.

>>89748258
I gotta say, I like how entirely reasonable Armadillo got after he got his ass kicked.

Also, huh, I guess we get to the Power Broker storyline pretty quickly if it's already getting hinted at here.

>>89749992
Man, the trenchcoat and hat over costumes will never not make me laugh.

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>>89750069
They also have high-quality sneg waifus.

>>89748496
>You get so much more story per issue that way.

It's also helped that Ellis's "Widescreen comics" idea that decompressed the shit out of EVERYTHING with entire issues of splash pages is still like 15 years away.

>>89750064
Still mad that Cap 3's fakeout name was Serpent Society.

>>89748569
>Steve
>"Steve"
>"John Smith"
>The Beyonder

Looking like Cap is popular.

>>89748650
That was between Steve and the Sharon LMD, anon.

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Honestly I'm gonna be tuning out a bit and auto-dumping as I prepare for work tomorrow. So I won't be very chatty.

>>89750064
>still above throwaway villains.

Well, until your Queseda-Bendis braintrust takes over and everyone becomes a throwaway villain.

>>89750162
Diamondback LMD

>>89750179
Awww, and Constrictor will die in the future due to lack of healthcare...

>>89750239
You know what I love? Asp's full name is Clea Nephertiti

>>89749344
>>89749384

>42

>>89749899
I don't think Cap has got along grateful with any President in awhile. Cap is an ultimate idealist. Trump operates with a grateful degree of pragmatic cynicism with respect to other countries. I think a Cap comic about that would be interesting. But to put basic ideas of the new conservatives coming out of The Red Skull's mouth is not clever writing it is demonization. Poor white people daring to pirate with a sense of self preservation is treated as equivalent to Nazism. The left refuses to engage with us in the least.

I feel silly talking about something so serious in a thread with a fucking Madcap story in it. I love some of Gruenwald's stuff but that character is so obnoxious.

>>89749550
>Cheap Laffs

Ha. Way to sneak an ad for your cable access sketch comedy show in there, Gru.

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>>89750470
Is that for real? I need to dig that up.

>>89750488
There are six episodes on YouTube. It isn't very good, honestly, but it is full of Marvel Bullpen staff, so it's a neat artifact of 80s Marvel.

I watched them after finding out about the show while JSAnon was running Quasar.

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>>89750555
That's definitely on my to-do list now.

Well, that's my limit for tonight. Thanks for joining me, and thanks to OP for unintentionally jump-starting a good storytime.

>>89749917
It's not fair to use your seduction powers to spar Cap into sucking your dick, Eros.

>>89750646
Goodnight Texas!

Oh and as I always do here's a link to the issues we read plus some extra:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gphfvunqzwbpbrh/AADvcYF_R9vXYh9e9fKFxahBa?dl=0

>>89749946
It's time for M-m-m-m-eta!

Also 5 comics for $3.25. Nearly half the modern price of a single issue.

>>89750686
I'm surprised Cap didn't make a comment about the price, though I guess he's pretty used to inflation by this point.

>>89750050
Anaconda looks so chipper in this fight.
She's be cute if not for those weird flesh whisker.

>>89750181
Cap's been around the block a while and has fated multiple spies.

He's fucked more than one robot.

>>89750069
Armadillo's never been a particularly bad guy. Just kind of a dolt with shitty luck. Least he finally got himself a real waifu in Scarlet Spider.

>>89750300
I'm honestly shocked that, when BoP was a thing, Marvel never tried to counter with a B.A.D. Girls book. Really would've fit in that mid/late '90s sexy action girl trend.

>>89747865
They already shat up all the other co related threads after November. Might as well hit the nail on this coffin and fuck up storytimes too.

>>89751224
He's sort of "the muscle", not really evil but willing to hench for evil if it means a paycheck, or whatever it is they've been promised.
There used to be a lot of that archtype.
The Wrecker started out as Loki's.
Titania started out as Dr. Doom's.
Most grew out of it and became villains in their own right, but Armadillo just never had the ambition.

>>89744279
Thank you

>>89746284
You da real MVP

Color looks remastered. Was his run reprinted in any paperbacks? I want it

>>89750179
>Mr. Schlichting

I never knew the Constrictor was secretly the all-male, for women version of the Fappening.

>>89750204
>Power Broker, the Serpent Society and The Scourge all in like three issues

Goddamn, Gru was just lousy with ideas going into this run, wasn't he?

Also, Scourge is THICC

>>89750222
Hey everybody, it's Mike "Superman Killer" Carlin!

>>89744279

>>89744279

>>89746387
Jack is a shit roommate.

>>89749188
>ywn date a professional glass blower

>>89750450
>Cap is too pure husbando to pull a Matthew Lesko exploitation of the government for free money.

>>89765171

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>>89750540
This has potential.

>>89750580
I love Flag Smasher. He's hilariously idiotic.

>>89750512