Nazi-Punchers CAPTAIN AMERICA "Adventures of Captain America" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Patriotic 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 (real-life) Adventures of 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 Hero Histories bonus; a feature from 1964's HTF Warren Publishing's On the Scene Presents SuperHeroes! one-shot magazine about the real reel-life Captain America...

Who Sez Comics Ain't Educational?

Nazi-Punchers 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 King of the Rocket Man serial which, in the real world, was produced in 1949, a half-decade later!

Tune in next Monday for both

1) the astounding conclusion
2) some more background info about the movie serial!

The real Lydecker brothers were not Nazi Agents!
We're ending today's entry on (what else?) a cliffhanger you'll have to come back next week to see resolved!

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Nazi-Punchers BATMAN & CAPTAIN AMERICA "Conclusion" & "Epilogue"

It Has All Lead Up to This...

...despite the best efforts of The Batman and Captain America, The Red Skull is about to drop an atom bomb on Washington DC!

However, the least-likely patriot in America's history may just do what they couldn't...

Not content to just change World War II history for two universes, John Byrne tossed in an epilogue rewriting things even further...

And so ends this Multiversal tale, which, sadly, never spawned a sequel.
Personally, I'd love to seen more of this particular Silver-Age Earth...
Next Week, We're Back to Russkie-Smashing!

Nazi-Punchers BATMAN & CAPTAIN AMERICA "Part 4"

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

Pencils by Jack Kirby from the back cover of Street Enterprises' The Comic Reader #100 (1973), believed to be the first time the King illustrated The Batman!

...The Red Skull had attached The Batman and Bucky (yes, you read that right) to a bomb...which the Nazi witnessed exploding, destroying the building the crimefighters were in!

Meanwhile, Captain America and Robin, discovering The Red Skull and The Joker are working together (though the Clown Prince of Crime still doesn't know that)...

Well, we can see why this book wasn't  called Super-Villain Team-Up (besides the obvious copyright and trademark infringement)!

Be here next Monday for the (truly) Cataclysmic Conclusion!

Nazi-Punchers BATMAN & CAPTAIN AMERICA "Part 3"

Secrets Are Revealed...

...as The Batman and Captain America learn each other's secret identities, and the manipulator of The Joker's decidedly-unpatriotic attempt to acquire top secret military info turns out to be...The Red Skull!

Are Batman  and Bucky  Blown to Bits?

Will the Star-Spangled Avenger and the Boy Wonder be Slaughtered?

And how will The Joker  react to discovering he's being used by The Red Skull  against his own country?

The Answers to these and other questions will be revealed...Next Monday!

Same Cap...er, Bat-Time!

Same Bat...er, Cap Blog!

One Hint: the wildest  is yet to come!

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