This will be the first post on the graphic novels you should read for Marvel's BIG 3 (2 more to follow). If you don't know who the BIG 3 are, you will find out soon enough.
Well, with Cap, I find the best graphic novels and comics have been from the last 5 years or so, because of Ed Brubaker. Brubaker has taken this character into the proper story-telling that Cap deserves, because quite honestly, prior to Brubaker there was just way to much cheesy crap. Personally, Cap did not enjoy the most creativity as a character through the 80s and 90s. Even when he was created by Jack Kirby just prior to the American involvement in WWII (Captain America Comics #1 March, 1941) it was serialized comic strips contained in the traditional comic book format, that were mostly propaganda to ease Americans into the idea of going to war (Pearl Harbour did not occur until Dec. 1941 and America had still been selling oil exports to Japan until the end of 1941). The classic image of Cap punching Hitler was printed well before there was any inkling of American involvement in Europe let alone the tragedy that would unfold at Pearl Harbour. It wasn't until Stan Lee had the Avengers find Captain America in the iceberg did he receive his first proper comic book (Astonishing Tales became Captain America at issue #100).
01 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER ULTIMATE COLLECTION
A midnight call to duty brings Captain America
aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D Heli-carrier to identify the corpse of his most feared
adversary: the Red Skull! The shocking murder of Cap’s oldest enemy may not be
the end of the Skull’s plans, however, because whoever shot the Skull has stolen
his final project: an unfinished Cosmic Cube with the potential power to alter
reality itself. Adding to the imminent danger, a cadre of the Skull’s followers
has already set in motion a plan to ignite bombs in the hearts of Paris, London
and Manhattan – causing untold death and destruction. Racing against these
bombs’ rapidly ticking clocks, the Star-Spangled Avenger must not only solve the
mystery of his nemesis’ murder, but find the Cube before it can be used in the
Red Skull’s malevolent plot against the United States! Then, the questions
plaguing Captain America's dreams and memories have been answered in the most
brutal way possible. And in the wake of this brutality, General Lukin makes his
first all-out assault – tearing open old wounds and threatening to make new
scars that will never heal! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA #1-9 & #11-14.
02 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA
05 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: NO ESCAPE
Zemo and Bucky - two characters linked through history whether they like it or not. And now Zemo has set his sights on Bucky and plans to destroy our new Captain America one step at a time. It's the hardest hitting Captain America story ever by the awesome team of Ed Brubaker and Butch Guice. Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA #606-610.
Well, with Cap, I find the best graphic novels and comics have been from the last 5 years or so, because of Ed Brubaker. Brubaker has taken this character into the proper story-telling that Cap deserves, because quite honestly, prior to Brubaker there was just way to much cheesy crap. Personally, Cap did not enjoy the most creativity as a character through the 80s and 90s. Even when he was created by Jack Kirby just prior to the American involvement in WWII (Captain America Comics #1 March, 1941) it was serialized comic strips contained in the traditional comic book format, that were mostly propaganda to ease Americans into the idea of going to war (Pearl Harbour did not occur until Dec. 1941 and America had still been selling oil exports to Japan until the end of 1941). The classic image of Cap punching Hitler was printed well before there was any inkling of American involvement in Europe let alone the tragedy that would unfold at Pearl Harbour. It wasn't until Stan Lee had the Avengers find Captain America in the iceberg did he receive his first proper comic book (Astonishing Tales became Captain America at issue #100).
01 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER ULTIMATE COLLECTION
02 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA
The death of Captain America! Leaping from the final pages of Civil War,
this is the biggest Cap story that Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting have yet to tell
- guaranteed to stun readers and send shock waves through the entire Marvel
Universe for the next year! As repercussions ripple outward, the Winter Soldier
finally chooses a side, after the Civil War has ended - his own. But what are
the Red Skull and his minions up to behind the scenes? Collects Captain America
#25-30.
03 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: TRUTH - RED, WHITE & BLACK
In every war, people demand their champion. In World War II, that hero was Captain America. TRUTH is the controversial, declassified story of the African American men involuntarily subjected to the U.S. War Department's "Super Soldier" project, in a race to develop a serum that might turn the tide against the Axis powers...if the Nazi's didn't get to it first! An epic spanning the time just before the attack on Pearl Harbor into the present day, TRUTH finally reveals the tragic sacrifice that a Black infantry unit made for their country - and what those sacrifices mean to a white man named Steve Rogers. Collects TRUTH #1-7.
04 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CAPTAIN
When Steve Rogers refuses to become a government operative, he is stripped of
his uniform, title and shield, and a new Captain America is born! John Walker,
the former Superpatriot and future USAgent-along with sidekick Bucky, the future
Battle Star-does his best to fill the big shoes Rogers left
behind. Collecting: Captain America #332-350,
Iron Man #228
05 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: NO ESCAPE
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