CoronaVirus Comics CAPTAIN AMERICA "Attack of the Asthma Monster" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Star-Spangled Avenger and His New-Found Friends...

...the Asthma Monster attacked a school, using a spray to cause everybody to display symptoms of the medical condition!

The only two people unaffected are two asthmatic students, John and Ruth, who had just taken their meds when the villain attacked!

Captain America, who has yet to encounter the fiend, takes the two eyewitnesses along as he tries to figure out where the criminal will strike next...

HE DID???

Read on, True Believer...

Written by Louise Simonson, penciled by Alex Saviuk, and inked by Fred Fredricks (except the cover which Al Milgrom inked), this never-reprinted 1985 one-shot promotional comic by Marvel and the pharmaceutical company Glaxo spawned a sequel after the Asthma Monster escaped from custody!

You'll see it after we present Hero History's contribution to the annual RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon...

...a never-reprinted multi-part tale of another iconic hero laid low by disease!

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Captain America

75th Anniversary Vibranium Collection

Reading Room MAN-BAT "Beware the Eyes of Baron Tyme" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Anti-Hero...

...Francine (She-Bat) Langstrom, wife of Kirk (Man-Bat) Langstrom is being mind-controlled by the evil mage Baron Tyme and used to murder his enemies in Gotham City!

This has, of course, attracted the attention of...The Batman...

In best super-villain fashion, Baron Tyme survived and returned to fight Jack Kirby's The Demon in a story arc pencilled and inked by Ditko!
Ditko keeps The Batman's face shadowed most of the time, showing only the eye-slits, giving him a really-kool look I'm sorry other artists haven't followed-up on!

For unknown reasons, the next (and last) issue of the series featured a totally-different creative team (except for cover artist Jim Aparo)!
Ditko kept very busy, doing projects like Stalker and one-off tales for the DC mystery and sci-fi anthologies as well as work for other companies like Atlas/Seaboard and Charlton.
He returned to Marvel in 1977, with the explicit mandate he not illustrate anything involving his co-creations Spider-Man or Doctor Strange!
But anything else was fair game, and he worked on everything from Machine Man and The Avengers to Chuck Norris: Karate Kommando!

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Steve Ditko Omnibus

Volume 2

(which reprints this tale as well as Baron Tyme's return story-arc vs The Demon, also illustrated by Ditko)

Reading Room MAN-BAT "Beware the Eyes of Baron Tyme" Part 1

Steve Ditko studied under Jerry (Joker) Robinson at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School...

...(now known as the School of Visual Arts), and here's the only time Steve illustrated an iconic character Jerry rendered numerous times!

...where Guess Who? is waiting...as you'll see tomorrow!

Ditko did a spectacular job on this tale, and was apparently very enthusiastic about doing the series.

His promo (and probably tryout) piece...

...is absolutely beautiful!

Al Milgrom, who is a longtime fan of Ditko's also threw himself into his work, turning in some of his best non-Jim Starlin inking!

(Milgrom was Starlin's preferred inker during the 1970s whenever Jim didn't ink his own work.

Their co-created covers are signed "Gemini".)

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Batman: Arkham

Man-Bat

(which reprints this tale)