Captain America Comics #59
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Private Life of Captain America!", a newly discharged Steve Rogers returns to civilian life as a high school teacher, only to find himself unexpectedly confronting a dangerous criminal scheme disguised as a fire emergency. When a student named Snipe is caught with a suspicious perfume bottle, Captain America and Bucky uncover a plot where children are unwittingly used to deliver timed incendiary devices—posing as firemen to rob buildings. Written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Mike Sekowsky, with inks by George Klein, this 1946 issue features a rare origin retelling in its first 2.75 pages and a cover by Syd Shores that captures the story’s mix of wartime heroism and schoolyard drama.
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The recently discharged Cap resumes his public school teaching job and administers corporal punishment to a kid named Snipe. Snipe empties his pockets and reveals a bottle of perfume. The other kids make fun of him but it turns out crooks are using kids to sell perfume bottles that act as timed incendiary grenades in order to impersonate firemen and rob buildings. Cap and Bucky put a stop to this scheme with the help of Snipe. The first 2.75 pages (after the splash page) are a retelling of Captain America's origin and how Bucky discovered his secret identity.
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