CaptainAmerica

In 2004, writer Ed Brubaker began a run on Marvel's Captain America (that continues to this day) with a 13-issue epic reintroducing the long-dead Bucky Barnes, former partner of Captain America, as the Winter Soldier, a brainwashed Soviet agent brought in and out of stasis all throughout the Cold War to participate in all forms of assassination, espionage and other skullduggery...

For those dreading the finale of Captain America & Bucky, worry not, Marvel has announced that writer Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun) and Alessandro Vitti (Secret Warriors) will soldier on in Captain America & Hawkeye, which will continue the numbering of the previous series beginning in April. Pitche...

The names "Butch Guice" and "Bettie Breitweiser" would have been enough to sell me on the forthcoming Winter Soldier series even if I wasn't already a great fan of writer Ed Brubaker's work with the Bucky Barnes character, but a trio of unlettered preview pages has pushed me over the line from merely "sold" to "can't wait...

Now on shelves is Captain America and Bucky: The Life Story of Bucky Barnes, a hardcover collection by Ed Brubaker, Marc Andreyko and Chris Samnee detailing the untold origins of Captain America and Bucky Barnes. Bet you thought you already knew those origins, didn't you...

Joe Simon, the comic book writer, artist and editor best-known as the co-creator of Captain America, died yesterday at the age of 98. The Rochester, New York-born Simon began working in the just-emerging field of comic books in 1939, the dawn of the Golden Age, after first working for several New York newspapers and for Paramount Pictures in New York...

We'll miss the mighty Steve McNiven on Marvel Comics' recently relaunched Captain America series, but it's difficult to imagine a better replacement than the legendary Alan Davis. The veteran superhero comics artist of such works as Captain Britain, Excalibur and JLA: The Nail joins writer Ed Brubaker for a brand new storyline beginning in December's Captain America #6...

Hasbro hosted its NYCC Preview Night on Wednesday, giving attendees a first look at many of its upcoming toy lines, including action figures from The Avengers film in both the 3.75" Marvel Universe and 6" Marvel Legends scales. On hand were Hawkeye, Iron Man and Black Widow at 3...

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