This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog will look at Jack Kirby’s Captain America storyline for America’s Bicentennial Year: 1976.
CAPTAIN AMERICA Vol 1 #193 (January 1976)
Title: Screamer in the Brain
Villains: The Elite aka the Royalist Forces of America
NOTE: Legendary comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, who co-created Captain America back in 1941, had returned for this Bicentennial storyline.
Synopsis: Captain America and the Falcon are casually hanging out at the apartment of Leila Taylor, the Falcon’s romantic partner. Suddenly, a radiation that feels like screaming in one’s brain induces madness in everyone within a couple block radius including Cap and Falc.
They are eventually able to resist it and fight the destructive mob of other victims until Cap finds and destroys the device responsible. S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrive on the scene and take our heroes to a briefing by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Increasingly large versions of these “Madbombs” have unleashed chaos in multiple locations across the U.S. Continue reading
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