Captain Marvel #35

Captain Marvel #35

Comic: Captain Marvel #35
Language: English
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Year: November 1974
Condition: Fine/Very Fine, FN/VF, 7.0

Captain Marvel #35 brings an adventure of this cosmic superhero, drawn by the legendary Alfredo Alcala. This classic Bronze Age comic is in good condition.

In December 1967, Captain Marvel first appeared in issue 12 of the comic series Marvel Super Heroes. Marvel Comics was keen to secure the superhero's name, as another Captain Marvel - also known as SHAZAM - was causing mischief at the competition. Since Marvel's Captain appeared in a completely different costume in inconspicuous shades of green and was also an alien (Kree), there were no legal problems. Already after his second appearance (in Marvel Super Heroes #13) he got his own comic series. From 1968 to 1979, a total of 62 issues of his adventures were published. Comic legend Gene Colan (1926-2011) drew the first stories in his characteristically dynamic style. In issue 17, the Captain underwent a radical costume change and eventually received a red-dark blue costume that connects many iconic superheroes. (DC's Superman and Marvel's Thor, for example, also wear red and blue.) A fun fact on the side: Captain Marvel is one of the few superheroes (perhaps the only one?) who died and actually stayed dead. Superhero deaths have become quite inflated in recent years - but the heroes never really stay dead. They always come back. Not so this Captain. Jim Starlin let the Kree Mar-Vell die unspectacularly and ordinarily of cancer in 1982 in the graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel.

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