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colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-31 13:25:00

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char: captain america/steve rogers, creator: bryan hitch, creator: ed brubaker, publisher: marvel comics

Captain America: Reborn #2 preview

The preview for next week's issue (along with many others) posted at CBR.

The full preview can be found here.

"Why, if you were to unexpectedly vanish over the English Channel, I feel quite certain I should die soon after."

Ah, there's the regular Cap costume.

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	halloweenjack 2009-07-31 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Didn't FDR always conceal his disability from the press? (Reply to this) (Thread)

colonel_green
2009-07-31 04:46 pm UTC (link)

It was more that there was a gentleman's agreement with the main White House correspondents not to report it. People knew that he had weak legs and would sometimes use the chair; the big secret was that he couldn't really walk at all.

His big public appearances were the ones that were elaborately staged to make it look like he could walk (one of the more famous ones being his keynote at the 1924 Dem convention, where he rehearsed walking onstage with the aid of his son James, made it to the podium, gave a rousing speech, and then, in the midst of all the applause, somebody in his entourage realized they hadn't given any thought to how he was going to leave the stage).

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	yaseen101 2009-07-31 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know whether to laugh or to facepalm and make my famous 'those idiots' face. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-08-01 12:02 am UTC (link)
	Yes, publicly it was very hidden. Stimpson cut a deal with the press to no write about it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	drsevarius 2009-08-01 12:21 am UTC (link)
	So how'd they get him off? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

colonel_green
2009-08-01 01:00 am UTC (link)

He'd been leaning on the podium throughout the speech, so he just leaned for a while taking applause (of which there was quite a bit; the boss of the Kansas City Democratic machine later remarked that he'd have been nominated on the spot if his health had been better), while his staff scrambled to figure something out. They ended up sending Eleanor and a bunch of her friends to mob around him in congratulation, at which point a few of them discreetly grabbed him by the arms and carried him off the stage.

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	jlroberson 2009-08-02 07:54 am UTC (link)
	But then, as Michael Bay and Jon Voight taught us, the horror of Pearl Harbor gave him the miraculous power to stand, because no American should sit still for such things, even if crippled. Unless they're a crummy Ratzi-lover! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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