I didn't recognize this one, and turns out I had read most of it, but that's okay: from 2011, Captain America: Rebirth, framing sequence story and art by Karl Kesel.
The first Captain America movie was in 2011, which of course seems like a hundred years ago; but this issue also has a "Got Milk?" ad for the Green Lantern movie, which feels even longer ago! (How many of you have the DVD's for both? Okay, when did you last watch them?) This was a 68-pager of Lee/Kirby reprints the Cap stories from Tales of Suspense which...huh, I thought I would've read those reprinted in Marvel Double Feature, but nope, probably the black-and-white Essential Captain America. These are all nice and recolored, though.
In the framing sequence, Cap has a clandestine meeting with the granddaughter of one of the architects of Project: Rebirth. Although not referred to by name in the classic issues, General "Fitz" Kilroy had brainstormed or worked on a number of secret projects; none of which turned out as well as Cap, but that's still not too shabby of a legacy. It was a good enough track record that the Nazis tried to murder him on several occasions, scared he might have another good idea in him. Cap either wasn't sure or couldn't say, but Fitz disappeared about the same time as the fabled Philadelphia Experiment, a popular conspiracy theory that's pretty crap but fun to pretend about. (It would play into a Warlord storyline that was pretty fun and I thought I had blogged, but maybe hadn't posted yet. There's time-travel for you...)
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