![]() (Image credit: Sal Buscema (Marvel Comics)) "So I thought 'Why does the Black guy have to be the secondary character here?' I knew Captain America was the draw, but I also knew I could certainly do more with the Falcon than had been done." "On the other hand, the cover said 'Captain America and the Falcon,' and it was the '70s – which was an idealistic time - and I was a young idealistic '70s guy. ![]() "I just thought, Falcon had a girlfriend, a neighborhood, a gang boss, and criminals he was going up against – he had a world, but it had only been touched on because Captain America was the guy driving the book," Englehart stated. ![]() I didn't feel the need to come up with a whole different approach to him."Įnglehart's approach was informed by considering what had already been established for Sam Wilson, but asking himself where the character could grow from there. "As written to that point, he was just a good, solid character. "I talked at great length about how I got to my version of Captain America, but the Falcon, he's just a good guy," Englehart told Newsarama in 2017. All the way back in the '70s, writer Steve Englehart took over as writer of the main Captain America title (renamed for a period as Captain America and the Falcon), elevating Sam Wilson from Captain America's sidekick (created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan in 1969's Captain America #117) to his full-on partner, and putting in place the building blocks that would elevate Sam to Captain America himself decades later. Captain America #153 cover (Image credit: Marie Severin (Marvel Comics))īut that modern story didn't come out of a vacuum either.
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