"But I never foresaw him as anything but the Falcon." "I think he was well-trained by Steve to take that responsibility, but to me I wanted him to be a solid partner – a junior partner, in a sense, because Captain America takes the senior partner role – but as close to 50/50, 60/40 that I could get to," Engelhart elaborated. ![]() Interestingly though, when asked whether he foresaw his story leading to Sam Wilson becoming Captain America himself, Englehart says "No, not at all." And even though there was no Captain America, there was still plenty of superheroics going on." "So by making him a stronger character up to that point, I then had the tools to shift focus to Falcon while Nomad was doing his thing. "When we got to the Nomad story, I thought 'Well, if there's no Captain America, at least there's still a Falcon,' the writer explained. One of Englehart's biggest innovations for Steve Rogers was taking him out of the mantle of Captain America after he became disillusioned by the actions of the United States government, putting him in a new, non-patriotic costume as Nomad – another development that eventually set the stage for Sam Wilson taking the mantle of Captain America many years later. (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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