At one point, the Falcon gets enough of an upper hand to peel back “Cap’s” mask enough to see that the face underneath REALLY IS that of Steve Rogers. (I’ll explain in a few minutes.)Īs the battle continues, this Captain America calls the Falcon “boy” and otherwise insults him, assuming most black people are criminals or are secretly insurrectionists. Falcon attacks this Cap and while they fight and banter the Falcon is stunned to hear that the man’s voice sounds exactly like that of Steve Rogers. Hours later he spots a man in a Captain America costume roughing up a black man on the assumption that he MUST be a criminal. Sam returns to his office, dons his Falcon costume and starts swinging around Harlem to see if he can pick up clues about this obviously fake Captain America. Leila insults Sam again and walks off angrily. To protect his and Cap’s secret identities Sam can’t tell Leila that that’s impossible since Captain America is in the Bahamas with Sharon Carter. Leila accuses him of sympathizing with “the honkeys” even though the honkey superhero Captain America was in Harlem the previous day beating up black people – both criminals and non-criminals alike.
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She is in full militant mode this morning and is very cold and insulting to Sam for his “soft” attitudes toward white people. In Harlem that morning, social worker Sam Wilson is circulating around like he usually does and is secretly proud as he hears people speaking about his alter ego the Falcon’s incredible work at fighting crime there.Įventually he comes across Leila Taylor and tries to feel out her ever-changing feelings toward him. To their surprise the other cops hear that Muldoon is on paid suspension pending an Internal Affairs investigation into his conduct. Steve and Bucky’s Sgt Mike Duffy was not aware of their dual identity the way the higher echelons were.īack to Steve’s precinct, a few officers are wondering how Sgt Muldoon will freak out when he learns that Steve Rogers is off on leave again for who knows how long. This setup was basically Marvel Comics’ way of recapturing the formula of their World War Two era Captain America comic books in which high military officers always covered for Private Steve Rogers’ frequent absences and seemingly lax attitude toward his soldierly duties. Steve’s Sgt Brian Muldoon was not aware of our hero’s dual identity and often chewed out Rogers over his seemingly lax attitude toward his policeman’s duties. NOTE: The police commissioner was aware that Steve was really Captain America and always covered for the irregular schedule that the hero had to keep. There is some disgruntlement among the other uniformed cops regarding the way Rogers is suddenly on extended medical leave and the way he always seems to get preferential treatment. The next morning we join the police precinct where Steve Rogers was working as a police officer at the time. Leila did not yet know that Sam was really the Falcon.īack to the story, Sam spends the night boiling with jealousy.
Leila Taylor was for a few years torn between her love for Sam Wilson and for the extreme Rafe and bounced between the two. NOTE: This was 1972 and the more moderate Falcon was often at odds with Rafe Michel & his militant gang in a Professor X vs Magneto way. Because this is before the Falcon got his high-tech wings (that story is coming, too) back then he got around by the way his falconing glove shot a wire like Daredevil’s billy club did, too, so Falcon could swing around the city like DD and Spider-Man.ĭays go by and one day while swinging around Harlem while his falcon Redwing flies along beside him, the Falcon sees his on-again off-again girlfriend Leila Taylor publicly cuddling with Rafe Michel, the black militant leader.
When the two lovebirds’ plane flies off, Sam Wilson returns to his life as a social worker in Harlem while also fighting crime there in his costumed identity of the Falcon. Sam is seeing off Steve and Sharon as they fly to the Bahamas for a long vacation together (By this time Sharon knows that Captain America is really Steve Rogers.) Synopsis: Captain America and the Falcon, in their secret identities of Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson, are with S.H.I.E.L.D. and presumed dead for decades.) and the Bucky of the 1950s (Jack Monroe, one of the young men the government assigned the “Bucky” identity during that same period.)
government had assume the role of Captain America while the real Cap was M.I.A. Villains: The Captain America of the 1950s (William Burnside, one of the men whom the U.S. With my look at 1970s classics for the Avengers and Spider-Man completed this post starts a look at 70s classics for Captain America & the Falcon.ĬAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON Vol 1 #153 (September 1972) Superhero-hungry readers have been letting me know they want more Marvel Comics blog posts.
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