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Captain America: One-Shots
Captain America & Thor: Avengers! #1
Thor and Captain America hit the big screen this summer, but their adventures don't end there! Enjoy two whole new stories starring Thor, Cap, and all your favorite characters from the films!
44 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 6, 2011
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About the author
Fred Van Lente
1,365 books322 followersFred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist.
Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.
Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.
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July 28, 2017
This is a tie in to the Avengers movie (or Captain America and Thor movies). Two stories, one with Cap, one with Thor. It's not bad, entertaining and fun.
March 3, 2025
11/50
Book: Captain America and Thor : Avengers #1
Script: Fred Van Lente
Art : Ron Lim
Title : Comics
This Colourful comic book has two totally unrelated stories U- base and Citadel of Spires. Featuring Avengers Super heroes Captain America and Thor respectively.
U-Base :
The first story begins with a Submarine belonging to The Hydra attacking a freighter at the Mediterranean sea in 1944 when the world was at war.
The attackers are then surprised with Captain America counter attacking them by using the merchant ship as bait. Cap is then joined by a unit of soldiers named “Howling Commandos” who help him to operate the Submarine .
They discover that some big weapon is being built at the U base under the sea and then the team goes in search of it with the intent of neutralizing the threat whatever it is.
Upon arrival at the U base, they find it deserted and doubting foul play they go in search as divided pairs. And set 30 minutes time to destroy the base.
One of the teams is trapped by an octopus kinda looking sea monster which regenerates its body parts when cut.
Cap tries to rescue them with the help of his shield in vain and the team gets to know that ‘The Hydra serum’ had mixed with the water supply when an underwater earthquake flooded the base.
The story ends with Cap putting together the missing pieces and understands that the monster is created from the scientists in the lab due to the regeneration serum binding them together and decides to send help to them.
Citadel of Spires:
The story begins with Thor and Loki defeating a beast with the help of Sif and Volstagg while they travel to Svartalfhelm to rescue Fandral who was imprisoned for spying upon the war machines of Citadel of Alfyse.
With so much bickering of Thor and Loki wanting to take two different routes,they get separated at the gates with the former taking a direct route of attack and the latter suggesting a surprise attack from the behind.
Loki was tricked in his route by Malekith with mirages and Thor encountered giants and elves in his route. They fight them off and finally unite at a point, help each other and get out of the Citadel rescuing Fandral.
Even though I am not a big fan of superhero comics I loved the bright colours in the comic book and how the individual images can be zoomed in and scrolled in this free Kindle book .
Having a little bit of knowledge about the superheroes from the movies it was interesting to read the book. An okayish read for me.
Book: Captain America and Thor : Avengers #1
Script: Fred Van Lente
Art : Ron Lim
Title : Comics
This Colourful comic book has two totally unrelated stories U- base and Citadel of Spires. Featuring Avengers Super heroes Captain America and Thor respectively.
U-Base :
The first story begins with a Submarine belonging to The Hydra attacking a freighter at the Mediterranean sea in 1944 when the world was at war.
The attackers are then surprised with Captain America counter attacking them by using the merchant ship as bait. Cap is then joined by a unit of soldiers named “Howling Commandos” who help him to operate the Submarine .
They discover that some big weapon is being built at the U base under the sea and then the team goes in search of it with the intent of neutralizing the threat whatever it is.
Upon arrival at the U base, they find it deserted and doubting foul play they go in search as divided pairs. And set 30 minutes time to destroy the base.
One of the teams is trapped by an octopus kinda looking sea monster which regenerates its body parts when cut.
Cap tries to rescue them with the help of his shield in vain and the team gets to know that ‘The Hydra serum’ had mixed with the water supply when an underwater earthquake flooded the base.
The story ends with Cap putting together the missing pieces and understands that the monster is created from the scientists in the lab due to the regeneration serum binding them together and decides to send help to them.
Citadel of Spires:
The story begins with Thor and Loki defeating a beast with the help of Sif and Volstagg while they travel to Svartalfhelm to rescue Fandral who was imprisoned for spying upon the war machines of Citadel of Alfyse.
With so much bickering of Thor and Loki wanting to take two different routes,they get separated at the gates with the former taking a direct route of attack and the latter suggesting a surprise attack from the behind.
Loki was tricked in his route by Malekith with mirages and Thor encountered giants and elves in his route. They fight them off and finally unite at a point, help each other and get out of the Citadel rescuing Fandral.
Even though I am not a big fan of superhero comics I loved the bright colours in the comic book and how the individual images can be zoomed in and scrolled in this free Kindle book .
Having a little bit of knowledge about the superheroes from the movies it was interesting to read the book. An okayish read for me.
April 18, 2024
The artwork was decent, the stories carry more of the MCU version of the characters rather than the original Marvel Comics take on them.
In the Captain America story this is played out by soft-soaping the enemy and in the Thor story much is made of Thor and Loki being happy brothers for the most part, even Loki eluding to Odin's blood running in his veins [it doesn't - he's adopted].
Ah, retconning - conning the unknowing, irritating the knowledgeable.
In the Captain America story this is played out by soft-soaping the enemy and in the Thor story much is made of Thor and Loki being happy brothers for the most part, even Loki eluding to Odin's blood running in his veins [it doesn't - he's adopted].
Ah, retconning - conning the unknowing, irritating the knowledgeable.
January 16, 2023
Two stories based on the MCU
The first one is Captain America and the Howling Comandos investigating a Hydra laboratory where everything had gone terribly wrong.
The second one being Thor and friends looking to save Fandral, and they learn the power of trust or whatever.
Really not much to talk about here, and it seems it’s not even canon to the movies.
The first one is Captain America and the Howling Comandos investigating a Hydra laboratory where everything had gone terribly wrong.
The second one being Thor and friends looking to save Fandral, and they learn the power of trust or whatever.
Really not much to talk about here, and it seems it’s not even canon to the movies.
November 9, 2018
Super heroes
This comic book is two different stories. The first one is Captain America saving some friends from a regenerating hydra while the second story is about Thor joining forces with Loki to defeat a rather tall elf.
This comic book is two different stories. The first one is Captain America saving some friends from a regenerating hydra while the second story is about Thor joining forces with Loki to defeat a rather tall elf.
May 16, 2021
The emphasis here is on the ampersand- there are two separate stories with no crossover. Cap battles Hydra with a rabble and Thor,Loki and honourable servants engage in a Norse glory battle in unison - making the annoying lettering somewhat more tolerable.
October 12, 2018
Superb read
Great
Nice 2 stories. Both are good entertainers. And the flow was great of both. Will make you love comics
Great
Nice 2 stories. Both are good entertainers. And the flow was great of both. Will make you love comics
August 4, 2019
Quality, absolute quality.
A must read for fans 😍👍
A must read for fans 😍👍
August 21, 2020
Not bad for the price of free
Not bad for the price of free, but the two stories are not exciting and kind of expected. Still worth a quick read.
Not bad for the price of free, but the two stories are not exciting and kind of expected. Still worth a quick read.
March 7, 2023
3,5 estrelas
April 6, 2023
Highly entertaining
Preferred the Thor comic over the CA one but they both entertained me. Coolio. I would read the next of the Thor one.
Preferred the Thor comic over the CA one but they both entertained me. Coolio. I would read the next of the Thor one.
March 12, 2024
Really good
For a free comic book day comic this was the best one I've read so far and I've read a lot of them.
For a free comic book day comic this was the best one I've read so far and I've read a lot of them.
August 5, 2025
La historia del cap me gustó, pero la de Thor estuvo meh…
May 13, 2012
I actually really liked these stories, my favorite one being Citadel of Spires. I actually found that I really liked Loki and couldn't wait to read more about him. Thor was, as always, a bit of a pompous ass. But that's ok, I still love him too.
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