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| 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...
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| "Democracy Pictures" = Republic Pictures |
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| "Sundown Dawson" = Sunset Carson, noted 1940s Western b-movie actor. |
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| "Lyle Dekker" = Howard & Theodore Lydecker, Republic Pictures' SFX wizards |
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| "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! |
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| "Tim Irons" = stuntman Tom Steele |
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| "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! |
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| Tune in next Monday for both |
1) the astounding conclusion
2) some more background info about the movie serial!
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!
We're ending today's entry on (what else?) a cliffhanger you'll have to come back next week to see resolved!
