Comicsdad wrote:
At the end we have the usual three-panel progression by Kirby, where Cap reveals how he jammed the hypnotic waves. But I am a bit confused about all this. Cap takes the helmet and says that he will deliver it to SHIELD so they can learn how to counteract those pesky hypnotic waves. But then the final three panels reveal that the SHIELD scientists had already made such a device for Cap! Why do they need this helmet, then?!? Very dramatic eyes in the last panel.


... If anyone needed an editor it was Stan Lee

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Stan Lee, 1968:

" ... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up which gives us a written synopsis. Originally-I have a little tape recorder-I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbon...so we don't have to worry that we'll forget what we've said. Then the artist goes home...or wherever he goes...and he draws the thing out, brings it back, and I put the copy in after he's drawn the story based on the plot I've given him. Now this varies with the different artists. Some artists, of course, need a more detailed plot than others. Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, 'Let's make the next villain be Dr. Doom'... or I may not even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and does it. He's good at plots. I'm sure he's a thousand times better than I. He just about makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editing... I may tell him he's gone too far in one direction or another. Of course, occasionally I'll give him a plot, but we're practically both the writers on the things. "