You can celebrate the Fourth with hot dogs, sparklers, lemonade, fireworks, but If you’re a comic book fan, you’ve got to carve out a little time to enjoy some of Captain America’s greatest adventures on the birthday of the United States!
Luckily for us, there are plenty of collections currently in print and/or at your favorite local comic shop available to choose from, going back to the earliest stories ever created about the star-spangled Avenger.
And if you want to go all the way back to 1941, the two Golden Age Captain America Omnibuses by Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, and Stan Lee are a good place to start.
If you prefer the birth of the Marvel Age Cap, well into the 1970s, all four Captain America Omnibus volumes will keep you reading until the next Fourth!
How about a little celebration of some good ole’ fashioned American team work? Look no further than the complete Invaders series by Roy Thomas in The Invaders Omnibus.
Perhaps you don’t have the time to dedicate to a weighty Omnibus with all of those annoying friends and family around and instead would rather jump into an Epic Collection that contains one of Cap’s most famous storylines, or the beginning or ending of a certain writer or artist’s run.
Some of Conskipper’s best picks include: Steve Englehart’s famous “Cap quits” storyline in the Captain America: Secret Empire Epic Collection, Cap’s brief identity change into Nomad before putting on the red, white, and blue again, and Jack Kirby’s returns to Marvel with his “Mad Bomb” saga in Captain America: The Man Who Sold the United States Epic Collection, and the bookend of two popular early 80s runs by Roger Stern and John Byrne and J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck in Captain America: Dawn’s Early Light Epic Collection.
And last but certainly not least, if you’d like to celebrate the Spirit of ’76, Kirby’s Treasury-sized reprint of the original Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles is still available (with an illustration of Cap, Uncle Sam, and the happiest Eagle that you’ve ever seen by “The King”).
We hope you enjoy your Independence Day and be sure to check out all of the Cap stories on Conskipper.
