{"id":9195,"date":"2009-10-19T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=9195"},"modified":"2013-01-27T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T15:43:28","slug":"the-second-coming-of-captain-avenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/19\/the-second-coming-of-captain-avenger\/","title":{"rendered":"The second coming of Captain Avenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve shared before, back in the late ’70s I wrote many 5- and 6-page back-up features<\/a> for Marvel Comics. And as I’ve also shared before, I’ve recently been uncovering photocopies of ancient original art<\/a>, some of which I’d even forgotten existed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But today I get to combine the two!<\/p>\n

Going through a box of papers, I discovered fading photocopies of pencils by one artist for a back-up story that was published as drawn by a second artist\u2014and I had no memory of why this duplicate take on the tale had been created. You can compare the two versions below.<\/p>\n

On the left, the published version of “The Coming of Captain Avenger” from Captain America<\/i> #221 (May 1978) as drawn by Steve Leialoha (penciller) and Al Gordon (inker). On the right, the same story as pencilled by Mark Rice. [Click on any image several times to view at a more legible size.] It’s interesting to see the different ways in which the plot was attacked.<\/p>\n

\"CaptainAvengerPublished1\"<\/a> \"CaptainAvengerUnpublished1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CaptainAvengerPublished2\"<\/a> \"CaptainAvengerUnpublished2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CaptainAvenerPublished3\"<\/a> \"CaptainAvengerUnpublished3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CaptainAvengerPublished4\"<\/a> \"CaptainAvengerUnpublished4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CaptainAvengerPublished5\"<\/a> \"CaptainAvengerUnpublished5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Why does this alternate version of my story exist? No idea.<\/p>\n

Who was Mark Rice? I can’t remember that either, and a search over at the Grand Comic-Book Database<\/a> doesn’t reveal any credits under that name. I believe he was one of the Crusty Bunkers<\/a>, but I can’t be sure.<\/p>\n

So\u2014are you out there, Mark?<\/p>\n

And if not, I’ll settle for anybody with a better memory than me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve shared before, back in the late ’70s I wrote many 5- and 6-page back-up features for Marvel Comics. And as I’ve also shared before, I’ve recently been uncovering photocopies of ancient original art, some of which I’d even forgotten existed. But today I get to combine the two! Going through a box of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[284,20,283,282],"class_list":["post-9195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mark-rice","tag-marvel-comics","tag-steve-leialoha","tag-the-avengers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}