Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Captain America Vol. 3 - To Be Reborn

by Stan Lee

Continuing the Mighty Marvel Masterworks series with some of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's most iconic Captain America tales!

Marvel’s man out of time, Captain America, is back and battling for justice in the Mighty Marvel Masterworks ! The adventures in this volume are some of Cap’s greatest, and how could they not be when they’re crafted by the creative team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby? Cap teams with the Black Panther — in some of the leader of the Wakanda’s earliest appearances — to grapple with Baron Zemo, the man who killed Cap’s partner during World War II! Then, Cap and Sharon Carter (a.k.a. S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Agent-13) will confront the true face of evil, the Red Skull. Also featuring an action-packed issue with Batroc and the Swordsman that bristles with the limitless power of “King” Kirby’s art!

TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) #95-99 and CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #100-105

192 pages, Paperback

Published March 5, 2024

About the author

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

Reviews

[Gary Sassaman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the last MMMW volume featuring 1960s Captain America stories solely by Jack Kirby. It reprints Tales of Suspense #s 96-99 and Captain America #s 100-105, and it’s pure Kirby magic. It’s from his “big panel” era, and it’s right before he leaves Cap behind (with issue #109) to concentrate solely on Fantastic Four and Thor. The two-part Black Panther tale (from ToS #s 97 and 98) is my favorite, with one of Kirby’s best Cap covers (#98). Joe Sinnott inks the first part of this volume, to be replaced by the heavy-handed Syd Shores right before Cap finally gets his own book; Shores inks Cap #s 100-103, with Dan Adkins doing a lackluster job on #104, and Frank Giacoia on #105. But all these stories are, as Stan Lee himself might say, “All-out Action in the Merry Marvel Manner!”... plus you get to see Cap and Agent 13 go on a date!