Captain Marvel #36

Captain Marvel #36

Comic: Captain Marvel #36
Language: English
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Year: January 1975
Condition: Fine/Very Fine, FN/VF, 7.0

Captain Marvel #36 contains the reprint of Marvel Super Heroes #12, where Captain Marvel's first story by Stan Lee (story) and Gene Colan (art) appeared. (Here it's still the original Captain Marvel, not Carol Danvers, who later became Captain Marvel and also embodies the Captain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.) The comic is in a good used condition.

In December 1967, Captain Marvel made his first appearance in issue #12 of the comic series Marvel Super Heroes. Marvel Comics was determined to secure the superhero's name, because another Captain Marvel - also known as SHAZAM - was causing mischief at the competition. Since Marvel's Captain appeared in a completely different costume in unassuming shades of green and was also an alien (Kree), there were no legal issues. Already after his second appearance (in Marvel Super Heroes #13) he got his own title. 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 signature dynamic style. In issue #17 the Captain then underwent a radical costume change, finally getting a red-and-dark-blue costume that links many iconic superheroes. (DC's Superman and Marvel's Thor, for instance, 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 - only the heroes never really stay dead. They always come back. Not so this Captain. Jim Starlin had 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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