Comics:Captain America Vol 1 100

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"This Monster Unmasked!"

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Captain America Vol 1 #100
April, 1968

Cover Artists

Jack Kirby, Syd Shores

Writers

Stan Lee

Pencilers

Jack Kirby

Inkers

Syd Shores

Letterers

Artie Simek

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Tales of Suspense #99

Captain America #101

Appearing in "This Monster Unmasked!"

Featured Characters:

• Captain America (Steve Rogers)
• Black Panther
  

Supporting Characters:

• Sharon Carter (Earth-616)
  

Villains:

• Baron Zemo {Imposter}
  

Other Characters:

• Sub-Mariner {Flashback}
• Avengers {Flashback}
  • Thor
  • Iron Man
  • Giant-Man
  • Wasp
• Nick Fury
  

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Synopsis for "This Monster Unmasked!"

This issue begins with a recap of Captain America's return as it was originally depicted in Avengers #4 before continuing with the story which we left off in Tales of Suspense #99.
Baron Zemo has ordered Agent 13 (who is posing as female spy Irma Kruhl) to execute Captain America and Black Panther, before they begin using a solar ray to destroy the United States. However, when she fires her first shot it misses, and she convinces Baron Zemo that they can execute the heroes after they use the solar ray against the United States. Taken to the control room, Agent 13 then activates her hidden weapon to destroy the solar rays controls.
She, Captain America and Black Pather begin fighting their way out of the control room, however when they end up in a hall way surrounded by guards, they escape through a ventelator shaft. In order to stop them, Zemo then activates his robot the Destructon to go after the heroes.
Captain America, Agent 13 and Black Panther fight the robot and eventually Cap managees to stop it by destroying it's motor controls. When Zemo and his men arrive, Zemo gets close enough for Captain America to grab him and unmask him. Revealing him not to be Baron Zemo at all, but the pilot of his plane the day that Zemo had died. Realizing they had been tricked, the stunned troops then shoot the pilot dead. Before they can act any further, Black Panther unmasks himself revealing to them that he is the leader of Wakanda and orders them to surrender to the Wakandan authorities and receive a fair trial for their crimes, the soldiers, with no other choice surrender peacefully.
With all the soldiers rounded up, Agent 13 contacts Nick Fury to inform him that their mission was a success and Fury fires missiles at the solar ray satelite destroying it. Later, Captain America, Agent 13, and Black Panther (the Panther agreeing to join the Avengers in Captain America's absence) all leave Wakanda to return to the United States.

Notes

• "Big PREMIERE Issue!"
• This is the first silver age issue of Captain America, in spite of the fact that it's listed as issue #100. This is because the title originally used to be Tales of Suspense, which was rennamed to a Captain America title because at the time Marvel was phasing out it's old title which originally was for science fiction, horror, and fantasy stories and soon became dominated by Iron Man and Captain America stories following the resurgance in popularity for super hero comics in the 1960's.
• Cover is colored by Stan Goldberg

Trivia

• The original submitted cover contained a large shadow of Baron Zemo. However, it was rejected and the shadow was removed. The Unpublished cover was reprinted in Comics: Essential Captain America Vol 1.

See Also

• Discuss Captain America Vol 1 100 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Captain America series

Recommended Reading

• None.

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