Still Better Than The Tom Cruise Version!

What am I grateful for this Thanksgiving?

Me, I'm thankful Sal Buscema got to draw Cap and the Falcon using swords & shields to carve up telepathic mummies.

From Captain America #166 (1973)

Friday Night Fights--Redwing Gets Stoned Style!!

We've got some rock-kicking in this week's Friday Night Fights.

The Grey Gargoyle has routed the Avengers, and now he's threatening this woman for having the temerity to move into his old apartment and throw out his chemicals while he was presumed dead.

Fortunately, Sam Wilson is on the job!

HEY!!

Whoa!! Two-footed face-kick!!

Unfortunately...

So much for the Falcon!!

Oh, all right...

SPOILER ALERT: The cavalry shows up!

Spacebooger is curious how the Gargoyle turns some things to stone but not others...

Bird vs. stone is from Avengers # 191 (1980), by David Michelinie, John Byrne and Dan Green

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Because I deliberately held off on most of the "stone" and "rock" puns I could have used. So go vote!!

Manic Monday Bonus--The Cap/Falcon Training Montage You Didn't Know You Needed!!

Captain America--trapped in the body of the Red Skull!!--is stuck on Exile Island, along with Sam Wilson!

Steve convinces Sam that's it's time to become a costumed crime-fighter!

Oh, shirtless Steve, you could convince me of anything!! (Wait, that's the Red Skull's body...ewwww...but still, Steve wears it well!!).

Anyway, that's a perfect cue for...TRAINING MONTAGE:

Eye Of The Tiger time, baby!!

Soon enough, it's time to translate training into...

ACTION!!!!

WAHOO!!!!

You know the rest of the story...

From Captain America #118 (1969)

The First Steve/Sam Split Was Much, Much More 70s!

Coming tomorrow is the 2nd issue of Sam Wilson, Captain America...

...but all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again:

Nice.

But whereas the 2015 Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson rift is apparently going to be caused by Sam's Captain America taking some political stands, it's got nothing on the 1971 split.

Sam has a new girlfriend, Leila. But as a leader of the radical People's Militia group, she's more interested in Sam's politics than his body:

Wow, Gary Friedrich wrote the hell out of that line!! "You're where it's at in my book, Daddy...but my book's out of print...until you get the right library card!" I dare all of you to use that line on a loved one this week.

Cap tries to be understanding...

Nick Spenser and Daniel Acuña, you have a tough act to top! Good luck, guys!