Sean Clarke :: Gene Colan

Captain America #118, page 8

Artists: Gene Colan (Penciller) , Joe Sinnott (Inker)

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Title:	Captain America #118, page 8
Artist:	Gene Colan (Penciller)
Artist:	Joe Sinnott (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	364
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	8
Added to Site:	1/23/2021
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Considering the publication history of "The House of Ideas," much of it can be boiled down to one idea: "Let's make Captain America evil!"

There was the Acrobat disguised as Cap (Strange Tales #114), racist 1950s Cap, Capwolf (the idea was evil), vampire Cap, and please miss me with that Black Widow-killing Hydra Cap bullshit.

1969 gave us the best evil Cap in Captain America #115-119, where the Red Skull used the cosmic cube to switch bodies with Steve Rogers. Following the Nazi atrocities of WWII, the Red Skull raised the evil stakes in this sequence by being curt to a hotel desk clerk (pictured here) and refusing to sign autographs for fans. Now that's what I call evil!

Joe Sinnott over Gene Colan (Cap #116-124) is a complete delight. Masterful at rendering form and surface, Sinnott's supple, graceful line moored the eccentricities of artists like Jack Kirby and Gene Colan, but also refined their pencil art into a hybrid four-color hyper reality that still stands out as some of the medium's greatest work.

The absolute pinnacle of comics writing appears in panel five, the real reason I "needed" to buy this page. This is the kind of dialogue you get when the writer and the editor are the same person. As a child, I had to reread the cheer that Stan wrote for the Cap fans several times to convince myself that I wasn't hallucinating.

Imagine if the anti-war, civil rights, and feminist movements of the 1960s had tasked Stan Lee with creating rousing slogans to chant at demonstrations and marches? We might now be living in a parallel-universe America where marginalized populations are relegated to second class status.

On further consideration, perhaps they should have given Stan a shot, after all.

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Filmore W. Bedwick
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 1/23/2021

Love the Cap head in panel 4.

F M
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/24/2021

Four panels to pick up the phone? That's decompression!

I heard that Gene used to drive writers crazy with stuff like that. But who cares if it looks this good on th page :)

Comics Superworld
Member Since 2007

2 - Posted on 1/24/2021

You dare intrude upon my privacy for so trifling a page?!

glen gold
Member Since 2004

2 - Posted on 1/24/2021

You can tell how evil the Skull is by how he leaves Cap's costume on the floor instead of folding it into triangles and playing Taps and saluting it.

glen gold
Member Since 2004

2 - Posted on 1/24/2021

Give no yell!
Void and Null!
Give no cheer!
Toward the Skull!

Aaron N.
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/24/2021

glen gold wrote:

Give no yell!
Void and Null!
Give no cheer!
Toward the Skull!

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I'd jump in on the cheer competition but this is unbeatable.

Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 1/24/2021

Rhymes not great

Might be crap

Still lets cheer

For Colan Cap

Jerry C.
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/24/2021

Gorgeous and dramatic! But come on Sean! You don't need them all!

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