Going car shopping in a bit, and hopefully rewarding myself with some comics afterwards; but we have a second for a book that was on one of the bingo cards some time back! From 2011, Marvel Comics Super Heroes #16, "Stars, Stripes, and Spiders!" Written by Todd Dezago, pencils by Lou Kang, inks by Pat Davidson. And this is actually a reprint of 2004's Marvel Age Spider-Man Team-Up with a lot of Cap branding and ads for his movie. But this even goes a step further, with Len Wein and Gil Kane listed as inspiration, since a lot of the plot is from Marvel Team-Up #13!
In the original story, Spidey is more of a seasoned pro, but also reeling from Gwen Stacy's death and jaded, bitter, and sarcastic. Today's version is for the kids, so it's high school--um, I mean, college! Totally college-age Spider-Man; not quite a rookie, but still more than a little star-struck at meeting Cap. Fighting the Grey Gargoyle, they get turned to stone as in the original version; but at least some lip service is paid as to how both Spidey and Cap recovered faster than the Gargoyle's usual one-hour of turn-to-stone. Instead of the rocket scheme from the original, which was probably necessitated by the Gargoyle's last appearance; this time he and A.I.M. are trying to steal the Super-Soldier Serum. Or what they thought was the Serum; Cap may have sent them on a wild goose chase!
(Freedom intensifies.) Nine ads and a corner-box movie date for Captain America this issue! Still, not a bad little retelling of one I have fond memories of.
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