Captain America Celebrates America!

A Half-Century Ago, Marvel Did an All-New Tabloid-Sized Special Celebrating the Bicentennial...

Unpublished Page by Jack Kirby

...titled Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, written and penciled by Jack (King) Kirby, who had just returned from a tenure at DC Comics!

While it did show some of the flaws and blemishes of American History, the tale ended on an extremely-optimistic note...

Penciled page (from photocopy) by Jack Kirby

...and gave us an iconic image of the Star-Spangled Avenger congratulating Uncle Sam on making it to 200!

Bicentennial Bonus: the original art by Jack Kirby and Frank Giacoia!

Happy Birthday, America!

(Hope it isn't our last one...)

Monday Mecha Madness UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION "War Toy"

It's the July 4th Week of the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of America!

Art by Mike Kaluta

So let's tell a tale of military AI!

Written by Tony Isabella, penciled by George Perez, and inked by Rico Rival, this tale of a sympathetic, benevolent, yet deadly robot from Marvel's anthology b/w magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #2 (1975) was the only time a story that wasn't an adaptation of a classic sci-fi prose story was featured on the cover of the magazine!
Speaking of the cover, you'll note the published version (as compared to the original by Mike Kaluta seen above) had two planets added to it at editor Roy Thomas' request...even though the action takes place on Earth!

Trivia: When "War Toy" was reprinted in another Marvel anthology b/w magazine Marvel Preview #20 (1980)...

...artist Howard Chaykin included the character in a new cover painting which featured his character Dominick Fortune along with the retro-style spaceship from the EC tribute story "Good Lord!"

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