Captain America, the post-WWII character, started in Tales of Suspense (1959) #59, where he shared billing with Iron Man. At issue number 100 of Tales of Suspense, Iron Man got a new #1, and Captain America took over the Tales of Suspense numbering and masthead.
Captain America is the revival of the WWII character created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon in the 1940's (first appearance, Captain America Comics (1940) #1). Most superhero comics had lots of trouble selling post-WWII (exceptions Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman). Captain America (1954) has been ret-conned to not be the "real" Captain America (in this series, he was a commie smasher) but somebody created to keep the symbol alive (not sure about "Weird Tales (1949)"). Cap from this era is typically considered the "Golden Age" Captain America - the one in "current" Marvel is the "Silver Age" Captain America.
In the Marvel comics retcon, the character of Cap was suspended in ice following a mission in WWII (when his original series died), and found and revived in Avengers #4 in the "new" Marvel Universe.
As with many Marvel characters from Marvel's near collapse in the mid-1990's, Cap has been re-started a number of times. As near as I can figure, here are the pre-Marvel NOW comic series in Cap's lineage, up to Captain America (2012) re-launch under the Marvel NOW banner
Series
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Issues
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Total Issues
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"Full Cap" Numbering
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Captain America Comics (1941)
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1-73
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73
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n/a
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Captain America’s Weird Tales (1949)
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74-75
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2
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n/a
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Captain America (1954)
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76-78
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3
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n/a
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Tales of Suspense (1959)**
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1-99
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99
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Jan-99
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Captain America (1968)
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100-454
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355
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100-454
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Captain America (1996)
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1-13
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13
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455-467
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Captain America (1998)
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1-50
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50
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468-517
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Captain America (2002)
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1-32
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32
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518-549
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Captain America (2005)
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1-50
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50
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550-599
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Captain America (2009)
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600-619
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20
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600-619
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Captain America and... (2011)*
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620-640
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21
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620-640
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Captain America (2011)***
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1-19
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19
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641-659
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Captain America (2012)
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1+
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n/a
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659+
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* Captain America and...Bucky (620 to 628); ...Hawkeye (629-632); ...Iron Man (633 to 635); ...Namor (635.1); Black Widow (636-640).
** Captain America began appearing in Tales of Suspense (1959) with issue #59 (Nov. 1964) and had appeared with Iron Man in the previous issue. Iron Man and Cap split the series until issue 100, when Cap took over and Iron Man got his own series.
*** originally missed Captain America (2011) - noted by Jovial Jay in comment attached to this post
*** originally missed Captain America (2011) - noted by Jovial Jay in comment attached to this post
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Love your work on these pages, but I think you forgot the "Captain America" series from 2011 that was only 19 issues long, which came just after issue #619 (but did not continue numbering). Numbering was continued, as you pointed out in "Captain America and..." so we appear to have divergent line here. The "Captain America" title continues (19 issues in 2011 and now 18 issues in the 2013 volume), but the numbering continued in a separate indicia, "Captain America and..." I feel that if the indicia gets a new name, even if the numbering continues it's a different series. Thanks for all the hard work researching!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jay - have updated the post to reflect. Much appreciated (didn't really know anybody looked at this blog)
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