Marvel Comics Group · Captain America #122 · February 1970 · 15¢ · 36 pages
Grade: VF- 7.5
Cover by Gene Colan.
Stan Lee scripts Cap through another confrontation with the Scorpion — Mac Gargan doing what he does, physically overwhelming and relentless, while Steve Rogers works the angles. Gene Colan handles the full pencil duties, and his Cap is worth lingering on: fluid, off-axis compositions, figures caught mid-motion with weight behind them. Colan never drew action like a diagram; he drew it like something that already happened and you're catching the blur.
The Scorpion, a Spider-Man villain by origin, crossed over into the Captain America corner of the Marvel universe here — one of those low-key crossover moments that feels more natural than engineered. Lee keeps the stakes personal and street-level even as Colan's shadows push everything toward something heavier.
Colan's run on Captain America — roughly issues #110 through #152 — is one of the more underappreciated sustained artistic statements Marvel published in the Bronze Age transition period. Collectors assembling that run are working through increasingly solid demand. Issue #122 lands in the middle of it, no asterisks required.
Condition VF- 7.5 — .
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Marvel Comics Group · Captain America #122 · February 1970 · 15¢ · 36 pages
Grade: VF- 7.5
Cover by Gene Colan.
Stan Lee scripts Cap through another confrontation with the Scorpion — Mac Gargan doing what he does, physically overwhelming and relentless, while Steve Rogers works the angles. Gene Colan handles the full pencil duties, and his Cap is worth lingering on: fluid, off-axis compositions, figures caught mid-motion with weight behind them. Colan never drew action like a diagram; he drew it like something that already happened and you're catching the blur.
The Scorpion, a Spider-Man villain by origin, crossed over into the Captain America corner of the Marvel universe here — one of those low-key crossover moments that feels more natural than engineered. Lee keeps the stakes personal and street-level even as Colan's shadows push everything toward something heavier.
Colan's run on Captain America — roughly issues #110 through #152 — is one of the more underappreciated sustained artistic statements Marvel published in the Bronze Age transition period. Collectors assembling that run are working through increasingly solid demand. Issue #122 lands in the middle of it, no asterisks required.
Condition VF- 7.5 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
