Who is the guy with Captain America on this stamp?

[bauble]

Originally Posted by quid.lucrum.istic.mihi.est

http://www.usps.com/communications/n...aCov300dpi.jpg

Is the guy on the left the Hulk? Wasn't he green?
Me and another non-comic reader can't figure why he's famous enough to be on a stamp.

Looks like the Black Panther to me (T'Challa ?).

[bauble]

Here's a link to a Wikipedia article on him (assuming that that's who he is - the costumes shown on wiki don't look a lot like what's on the stamp (though I still think that's him)).

[Wee Bairn]

Agree that he's probably not in the Top 1000 of supeheroes who should be on a stamp, but I also think he's not really featured- he just happens to be in the background of the comic book cover they wanted to use for CA.

And being a fan of comic books from that era I'm ashamed to admit I don't know why the "premiere issue" is not number 1, but 100?

[Exapno Mapcase]

Originally Posted by Wee Bairn

And being a fan of comic books from that era I'm ashamed to admit I don't know why the "premiere issue" is not number 1, but 100?

The laws regarding second class postage - magazines, which included comic books - were different in that era. Getting permits for new titles was more difficult. Marvel had problems with the number of new titles it could put out. (At one point early in the 60s it was down to 8 permits, IIRC.) It had a habit therefore of throwing new characters into old titles but maintaining the old numbering to give the appearance of continuity.

Many of the secondary characters of the era - Thor, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, Cap - were originally introduced in comics with old titles like Journey Into Mystery. They were often paired up two to a comic. When they grew so popular that they were given their own book-length comics, one of the two maintained the old numbering.

[Wee Bairn]

Originally Posted by Exapno Mapcase

The laws regarding second class postage - magazines, which included comic books - were different in that era. Getting permits for new titles was more difficult. Marvel had problems with the number of new titles it could put out. (At one point early in the 60s it was down to 8 permits, IIRC.) It had a habit therefore of throwing new characters into old titles but maintaining the old numbering to give the appearance of continuity.

Many of the secondary characters of the era - Thor, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, Cap - were originally introduced in comics with old titles like Journey Into Mystery. They were often paired up two to a comic. When they grew so popular that they were given their own book-length comics, one of the two maintained the old numbering.

Interesting- thanks!

[Lemur866]

OK, that cover has Cap, the Black Panther, Namor, the Wasp, Giant-Man, Thor...and some chick with a golden suit and a gun. Who the heck is she supposed to be?

[WordMan]

Yeah - that's the Black Panther. But I think Wee Bairn is right - it's all about the iconic Jack Kirby-penned cover of Cap that matters, not whether the BP, Ant-Man (or Giant-Man, or Yellowjacket, or whatever Hank Pym was calling himself at the time) or anyone else on on their with him.

BTW, I am sure the real comics die-hards will chime in, but I believe they started Cap's comic at issue 100 because it was re-starting a book from the WW2 Golden Age, when Captain America was first created by Kirby and Joe Simon (I think). When Stan Lee and Kirby jump-started the Silver Age of comics in the 60's, they brought Cap back in the Avengers, by claiming he got frozen in suspended animation for 25 or so years after an attack by the Red Skull (that supposedly killed Bucky). Cap's re-boot was so popular that they decided to give him his own book back...again, that is all from memory, so parts may be wrong...

[Spoke]

Originally Posted by Wee Bairn

And being a fan of comic books from that era I'm ashamed to admit I don't know why the "premiere issue" is not number 1, but 100?

Expanding on Exapno Mapcase's remarks, Cap had been paired with Iron Man in Tales of Suspense. (Each issue featured both a Captain America story and an Iron Man story.) With issue #100, Tales of Suspense became Captain America. (Iron Man got his own title, too, commencing with issue #1.)