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Captain America #274

Sep 1982
David Anthony Kraft, Mike Zeck

Story Name:

Death of a Hero!


Synopsis

Captain America #274 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 3.5 stars

Captain America with Nick Fury and SHIELD are searching for the SAC Aerial Command Center hijacked by Hydra….

Meanwhile, aboard that plane, Baron Strucker is trying to persuade General Sam Sawyer to reveal the codes needed to activate the nuclear weapons aboard. Sawyer suffers a heart attack while trying to sabotage the plane and only immediate medical attention saves his life. Sawyer manages secretly to shut off the anti-detection unit, allowing SHIELD to discover the plane’s location—Hydra Island.

Cap and the Howling Commandos suit up for the mission. Cap enters the island via jet pack, takes out LMD guards and confronts Strucker as he is about inject Sawyer with a deadly truth serum. Defeated, Strucker sounds the alarm. Cap hides Sawyer in a vent and joins SHIELD and the Howlers in battle with the agents of evil. Strucker is defeated and the General rescued but Strucker is revealed to be a robot double housing a bomb. Sawyer throws himself on the bomb, taking the brunt of the blast but saving his comrades, and he dies in Nick Fury’s arms. Hydra Island sinks beneath the waves as the heroes make their escape by submarine.

Epilogue: A hero’s funeral for General Sam Sawyer.


 

Review / Commentaries


Captain America #274 Review by (October 24, 2014)
Review: Story wraps up with a lot of action and confusion as there are several LMDs running around and we’re not always sure who is where and why. The focal point of the issue is the heroic sacrifice of General “Happy Sam” Sawyer and it’s nicely done, from a time when comic book deaths meant something. The comic gives you what you need to know about the character to appreciate the gravity of his death, and it works well. PS The cover makes the comic look more exciting than it is. Must be the Kirby Dots.

Comments: Part two of two parts. Baron Strucker supposedly died in STRANGE TALES #158; a robot double previously appeared in CAP #237. The story features an actual date for the adventure: Sam Sawyer’s tombstone lists his date of death as June 30, 1982.


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Mike Zeck
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Mike Zeck (Cover Penciler)
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Characters

Listed in Alphabetical Order.

Captain America
Captain America

(Steven Rogers)
Dum Dum Dugan
Dum Dum Dugan

(Timothy Aloysius Dugan)
Nick Fury
Nick Fury

(Nicholas Fury)

Plus: Dino Manelli, Eric Koenig, Gabe Jones (Gabriel Jones), General Sam Sawyer, Howling Commandos, Izzy Cohen, Pinky Pinkerton, Reb Ralston (Robert Ralston).