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Issue Details

Issue #255
Published March 1981
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Bob Budiansky (Assistant Editor); Jim Salicrup (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

Cover Details - "The Living Legend!"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes
Genre Superhero
Pencils Frank Miller [as FM] (signed)
Inks Joe Rubinstein [as JR] (signed)
Letters Rick Parker
Reprinted in Captain America: The Secret Story Of Marvel's Star-Spangled Super Hero (Ideals Publishing, 1981 series) #[nn]; in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #114/115; in Grandson of Origins (Marvel, 1998 series) #nn ; in Captain America: War and Remembrance (Second Edition) (Marvel, 2007 series) #nn; in Marvel Premiere Classic (Marvel, 2006 series) #57 (September 2010)

22 page Captain America story "The Living Legend"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers] (Origin); Ms. Rogers (Cap's Mother); Bucky Barnes; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Sgt. Duffy; Abraham Erskine; Red Skull; Nazis; Adolf Hitler; Baron Zemo; Master Man; Warrior Woman; Baron Blood; Namor [Sub-Mariner]; original Human Torch; Spitfire; Union Jack; Thor; Iron Man; Giant-Man; Wasp (All appearances except for Cap himself are flashbacks)
Synopsis Cap relives his origin in minute detail.
Genre Superhero
Script Roger Stern
Pencils John Byrne
Inks None (pages 1-21); Joe Rubinstein (page 22)
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes All but page 22 are reproduced from Byrne's pencils.
Reprinted in Captain America: The Secret Story Of Marvel's Star-Spangled Super Hero (Ideals Publishing, 1981 series) #[nn]; in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #114/115; in Grandson of Origins (Marvel, 1998 series) #nn ; in Captain America: War and Remembrance (Second Edition) (Marvel, 2007 series) #nn; in Marvel Premiere Classic (Marvel, 2006 series) #57 (September 2010)

1 page letters page "Letters to the Living Legend"

Script Roger Stern [as R.S.]
Letters Typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers Eric L. Watts, Tom A. Field and Rob Imes, with replies from Stern.