Death Be Not Proud!
- by Roy Thomas and John Buscema
- Comic Book
- Superhero
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Death Be Not Proud!” by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, in The Avengers 56 (Marvel Comics, September 1968).
Using Doc Doom’s time platform, the tag-3743 } Wasp sends Cap and the other three 1968 Avengers back to observe Bycky Barnes’s death at the hands of Baron Zemo.
—Michael Main
That’s just what’s begun to torure me! How can I be sure he’s dead? I saw only a single searing blast! If I somehow survived it . . . couldn’t he have, too?
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: starting time at Dooms castle
- Timeline Models
- Branching Timelines: We don’t know whether all of the Marvel Earths are branching timelines, but Earth-689 appears to have been intentionally created, as we’ll find out in [url=work-928)Avengers Annual #2[/url].
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Tethers: Doom’s platform
- Themes
- Cannot Return to Where You Already Exist: Cap does exist twice in the 1940s, but he starts out by saying, “Reed Richards was right! He said we’d be intangible . . . invisible . . . to those of this era! Otherwise, we’d invite disaster . . . by existing in two places at the same time!
- Fictional Tags
- Ant Man · Giant Man · Goliath
- Avengers (Marvel Comics Team)
- Black Panther (Marvel Comics)
- Bucky Barnes: in a flashback
- Captain America
- Dr. Doom’s Time Platform
- Earth-689 (Marvel Comics): briefly in the final panel, although we don’t know this until [url=work-928)Avengers Annual #2[/url]
- Hawkeye (Marvel Comics)
- Marvel’s Numbered Earth Realities: Earth-689 in the final panel
- Parallel Universes or Dimensions: Earth-689 in the final panel
- Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs: Zemo’s “hulking humanoid”
- Wasp (Marvel Comics)
- Zemo (Marvel Comics): in a flashback
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Death Be Not Proud!” by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, in The Avengers 56 (Marvel Comics, September 1968).
George Klein (inks)
Indexer Notes
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- Credits—The GDC states that for the cover, “Nick Caputo notes inks might be a combination of Klein (Avengers head shots) and Giacoia (Cap and Bucky figures).”