*Marvel: This week’s first visit to the Good Doctor Collection commences the Captain America issues and features the first appearance of the Falcon, co-star of the recent TV series. Three years after the debut of the Black Panther, 1969’s Captain America #117 saw the debut of Marvel’s second African-American super-hero. Having switched bodies involuntarily with the Red Skull, Cap ends up on Exile Island, being hunted by the Skull’s henchmen. Rescued by a young man named Sam Wilson and his pet hawk, Redwing, Cap persuades Sam of the importance of a costumed identity as a symbol, and Sam adopts the guise of the Falcon, first to inspire revolution in the native population of Exile Island, and later as an aspirational figure in Sam’s Harlem home. The Falcon and his avian sidekick Redwing would become a mainstay of Cap’s series, and of course figure largely in the current Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is a reasonably attractive cents copy, with good colour and some gloss, nice pages and good staples (except that the centrefold is off bottom staple). Some edge and corner wear and markings and (mainly) non-colour breaking creases, but a strong central image.
PICTURED: CAPTAIN AMERICA #117 VG £265 SOLD