Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Young Men's C.A. (You've Got Nothing to Lose)

Captain America isn't mentioned on the Who's Who list of Don Rico's work for Atlas, but the features that he did script, like Rawhide Kid and the various jungle ones, contain stories that match the style on the 1950s Cap revival. I've gone back on forth on this for some time, but I'll come down on the side of this being Rico.

'Li'l partner,' 'li'l pard,' 'li'l pal'

The panels are from the Serum to Korea story in CA 77, "The Sioux Strike" in Rawhide Kid 1 (Mar/55), and "While the Jungle Sleeps" in Lorna 17 (Jan/56).

Captain America scripts by Don Rico
in YOUNG MEN

Dec/53 24  Back from the Dead
Feb/54 26  Top Secret
Mar/     26  Captain America Turns Traitor
Apr/     27  Return of the Red Skull
June/     28  The Cargo of Death

in MEN'S ADVENTURES

May/54  27  The Girl Who Was Afraid
July/      28  Kill Captain America!

in CAPTAIN AMERICA

May/54  76  The Betrayers
Captain America Strikes
Come to the Commies
July/      77  You Die at Midnight 
The Man with No Face
[Serum to Korea]
Sep/      78  His Touch Is Death
The Green Dragon
The Hour of Doom
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  1. SangorShopNovember 2, 2018 at 10:58 PM

    Don Rico writing Superheroes for Stan lee in 1953-54, must be why Lee had Rico write a handful of stories in 1964-5. Lee knew he could do the job.

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  2. darkmarkNovember 4, 2018 at 5:09 PM

    So who do you think wrote the rest of the Torch stories Chapman didn't do, and the Bob Powell Subby story?

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    1. Martin OHearnNovember 5, 2018 at 8:52 AM

      I have those Torch stories on the back burner--I wonder if it's more than one writer, but the ones narrated by Toro certainly all seem to be by one person.

      That Sub-Mariner story has stumped me ever since I saw a page in the Who's Who.

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