In Do You Remember The First Time? we take a nostalgic trip back in time to discuss a seminal purchase that introduced us to a character, title, creator, or even a hobby.

Brubaker has said he felt mad when he found out there was NO actual Golden Age Captain America issue featuring Cap and Bucky getting blown up stopping Baron Zemo's Buzzbomb. He wrote in an introduction a collected edition in 2007 "How could they just kill this character off-panel?", going on to say "Now and then they would tease us with Bucky's return, too, which made it even worse because it was never him. Always a robot or a look-alike. It even became the unwritten law that was always spoken in comics, no one stays dead except Bucky (and Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy) but I always knew if I got my hands on Captain America, the book, it was a rule I was going to break."
There’s terrific action scene here where Rogers takes out some terrorists who hope to detonate a dirty bomb on Coney Island - he effortlessly and efficiently dispatches them, proving this ‘man out of time’ still has what it takes in the modern world. When I watched the opening of Captain America: The Winter Soldier I couldn't help but be reminded of this and it had me grinning from ear to ear. The issue literally ends with a real bang and I was hooked from that point onwards. I later upgraded the whole run with the Marvel Omnibus which proudly sits on my shelf and it firmly cemented Captain America as my favourite comic book character.
Which is why, this summer, you better believe I'm Team Cap!
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