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Cover: Sal Buscema & John Verpoorten

Captain America #168

Dec 1973 · Marvel · 0.20 USD
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“...And a Phoenix Shall Arise!”
★ 1st appearance — Helmut Zemo

From 1973, this Sal Buscema and John Verpoorten cover pulls no punches: Captain America stands trapped above a pool of molten lava while a fur-collared villain leaps in for the kill and a yellow-costumed attacker fires a laser blast at point-blank range — with Falcon swooping in desperately from above, shouting that he won't let Cap die. The cover's urgent question — "Who Is… the Phoenix?" — promises a secret identity reveal that was clearly designed to send readers scrambling for the next issue. Roy Thomas and Tony Isabella's story title, "…And a Phoenix Shall Arise!", only deepens the intrigue surrounding this mysterious new threat to Marvel's star-spangled hero and his partner.

writer Roy Thomas · writer Tony Isabella · artist Sal Buscema · inker J. Tartag · inker G. Roussos · colorist L. Lessmann · letterer C. Jetter · letterer June Braverman · cover Sal Buscema, John Verpoorten

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writer Roy Thomas
inker J. Tartag
colorist L. Lessmann
letterer C. Jetter
cover pencils Sal Buscema
cover inks John Verpoorten

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Baron Zemo's mad son Helmut has taken on the identity of the Phoenix to revenge himself on Captain America.

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