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Captain America (1968 series) #130

Oct 1970 on-sale: Jul 7, 1970

Stan Lee
writer
 |  Gene Colan
penciler

Captain America (1968 series) #130 cover

Story Name:

Up Against the Wall!


Synopsis

Captain America (1968 series) #130 synopsis by reviewer Peter Silvestro
Rating: 4 stars

As the story opens, Captain America is engaged in battle with the Hulk atop a mountain. Hulk is dropping boulders on the Avenger and Cap is deflecting them with his shield. When Jade Jaws picks up an enormous rock, Cap uses his shield to cause Hulk to lose his footing. As the giant falls, Cap ducks into a crevice and Hulk is buried alive under tons of rock. At this point we discover this is a movie shown in a theater, and Steve Rogers is among the audience. Hearing some hip young dudes mock Cap as old-fashioned, Steve shrugs it off and heads down the road on his bike toward a college….

As he travels along the highway he is stopped by police who have the road blocked and they send him in a different direction. Steve changes into his Captain America outfit and circles back to the school where he discovers a student riot in progress. Cap tries to get the cops to go easy on the kids but he is attacked by some students. Finding the dean has locked himself in his office, Cap fights his way into the building, where he rescues the besieged official using an escape wire to glide to safety….

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Regretting getting involved in this pointless situation, Cap is approached by a TV producer who asks him to appear on TV the following evening. The producer, however, is working for the masked villain The Hood, whose scheme is to divide the country into hostile factions. A “law and order” speech is prepared for Cap that will cause Americans to distrust the younger generation. On the live broadcast though Cap tosses the planned speech and improvises a call for cooperation and understanding. The Hood orders Cap silenced so Batroc and his henchmen Whirlwind and Porcupine are called. The trio of villains shows up at the studio and they attack the Avenger. Cap engages with and clobbers the baddies who flee when the police arrive. The Hood vows to take matters into his own hands next time….


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Characters
Good (or All)
CAP  
Captain America
(Steve Rogers)
HULK  
Hulk
(Bruce Banner)

Antagonists
BATROC  
Batroc
(Georges Batroc)
HOODBSA  
Hood
(Baron Strucker android)
PORCUPINE  
Porcupine
(Alexander Gentry)
WHIRLWIND  
Whirlwind
(David Cannon)

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Main/1st Story Full Credits

Gene Colan
Dick Ayers
Unknown
Marie Severin (Cover Penciler)
Joe Sinnott (Cover Inker)
Marie Severin (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: Art Simek.
Editor: Stan Lee.



Review / Commentaries


reviewer
Captain America (1968 series) #130 Review by (June 30, 2026)

Review: And Cap is still fussing about relevance and his lack thereof. So what does he do? He jumps into the middle of a campus riot, in a story “ripped from the headlines.” And the events are clearly designed to take no particular side, with some good guys and some bad guys on both sides, leading to Cap’s call for cooperation and understanding, interrupted by battles with familiar villains. Nice issue clearly mirrors the chaos of the theme, thanks to Colan’s gritty art with a lot of kinetic energy in multiple panels.

Comments: Part one of four parts. First appearance of The Hood/Baron Strucker who is revealed in issue #247 (ten years later!) to have been an android created by Machinesmith. No relation to the later villain, The Hood, whose identity is Parker Robbins. The Marvel Chronology Project does not include Hulk’s appearance here in its scheme. One of Cap’s oldest villains, Batroc the Leaper was introduced in TALES OF SUSPENSE #75; this is the first appearance of Batroc’s Brigade, a team with a frequently changing membership. Porcupine and Whirlwind were originally Ant-Man/Giant-Man villains; this is Porky’s first time facing Cap but Cap had already met Whirlwind in AVENGERS #46-47 and #54-55. Cap does not recognize him here but it is likely because his costume has changed greatly. Cap considers himself a forgotten hero along with Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999), one of the all-time great baseball players, whose career was in the 1940s and 50s.

The story is set in Southern California; the photographer seen toward the end is drawn to resemble Peter Parker but according to Spider-Man’s own book, he is in New York at this time for the classic “Death of Captain Stacy” storyline. Yet Marvel Database does claim it is him. 






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