{"id":4401,"date":"2019-07-06T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2019-05-25T21:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T01:11:48","slug":"cap-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/07\/06\/cap-137\/","title":{"rendered":"CAP 137"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now why would Cap & Falcon do something like that? Welcome to Wayback Weekend, where I look at comics that should\u2019ve been in an older block, but I didn\u2019t have them yet. And this inaugural edition is also the oldest issue of Cap to be featured on this blog. At this point in history, The Falcon has been Cap\u2019s partner for just shy of 2 years. If you\u2019re not familiar with his first design, I assume it\u2019s a bit confusing. It sure was for me the first time I saw it. His name is \u201cThe Falcon\u201d and he has no wings? Like\u2026 what? Spider-Man is like a spider, shouldn\u2019t The Falcon be like a Falcon? His more familiar suit also being a totally different color scheme is also a factor, though I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d say either of them are particularly \u201cfalcon\u201d colors. Hey, also, I think this cover might be Sal Buscema\u2019s first published Spider-Man drawing? As we\u2019ve seen, that guy drew Spider-Man for decades and decades, so that seems significant. He\u2019s not drawing the interiors, though. This one\u2019s brought to us by Stan Lee, Gene Colan, and Bill Everett. Everett created Namor, The Submariner in Marvel Comics #1 (And much later, drew the first issues of Daredevil). He\u2019s not as revered as Kirby, but he helped birth the Marvel Universe. Legends only. Let\u2019s do it!
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Really dropping into things in progress here. A crowd of reporters and onlookers is waiting high above as Cap & Falcon rise to the surface, including Sharon Carter, Cap\u2019s beloved in this era (And most others). Kirby\u2019s Sharon was a fierce and fiery secret agent, but Jack\u2019s not here anymore, and Stan Lee always liked his women less, ahem, capable, so Sharon is so worked up to see Cap alive that she faints. A doctor takes her away to make sure she\u2019s ok.
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I look blehhh sometimes, too, I get it. At the doctor\u2019s office, Sharon wakes up and is brought to tears by the idea that Cap didn\u2019t wait for her, everyone is sad. Cap & Falcon pull their motorcycle over to get into normal clothes so no one will bother them.
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Nice little bit of social commentary by Stan there. Sam suits back up as Falcon, deciding to head out and try to make The Falcon as famous as Captain America. It is with this attitude that he sees Spider-Man swing by, and he wants to know why Spidey is \u201cupstaging\u201d him.
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Falcon sees a mugging happening below, and diverts to stop it, leaving Redwing to follow Spider-Man for him. He stops the mugging with ease. Not seeing Redwing anywhere, he heads back up to the roof of his building, but someone\u2019s already there.
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Well, that\u2019s nice of him. Steve\u2019s too nice to let being rude to Sam hang for too long. But Falcon still wants to prove himself, so when Redwing comes back, he makes his excuses and leaves. Cap can sense something is up, but doesn\u2019t want to press him. Redwing leads Falcon to the apartment of Peter Parker & Harry Osborn just as Peter is heading out to get the late edition newspaper. And so\u2026
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Falcon, you doofus. Falc grabs a confused and terrified Harry up in his arms and begins hauling him out a window.
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Time for some pretty extreme Two Heroes Fight Over A Misunderstanding! Spidey easily outmaneuvers Falcon at every turn, and getting irritated by the situation, starts goading him, telling him if Cap has beef with him, he should come say so himself. That doesn\u2019t do anything to help Falcon\u2019s feeling that he\u2019s in Cap\u2019s shadow, and his anger gives him a second wind.
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Spidey knocks Falcon out, and Harry runs away while he has the chance. Spider-Man plants a tracer on Falcon so he can find him later and try to get to the bottom of this, then leaves himself. Meanwhile, Captain America is out riding his motorcycle when Redwing finds him, trying to lead him to his fallen master.
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Stone-face! He sure looks like a weird guy. I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll learn all about him in Cap 138.
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