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Saul A. Washington III
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Posted: 01 September 2006 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | 1  

I've always liked Lancelot Strong, The Shield costume by Simon and Kirby. Heck, I like all of Kirby's flag character designs.
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Mike Norris
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Red Guardian's costume always bugged me. I didnt understand where the white came from. It should be red and yellow like the Soviet flag. Though I guess that's a moot point now. 

 

edit to add: The boots should probably be red and the leggings yellow based on the "shadowed" elements.



Edited by Mike Norris on 01 September 2006 at 7:20pm
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Charles Jones
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I love Captain America's costume as Jack Kirby did it and as it was done for 50 years. I hate the Ultimate Captain America design, no wings on the helmet and the lines and pouches Yuk, I really hate the WWII Ultimate one, the stupid army helmet makes me think of Reb Brown.
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Jason Fliegel
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I always liked the Spirit of '76 from Marvel's version of the Crusaders.  I was also a big fan of the Americommando, Tex Thompson.

Quality/DC's Uncle Sam is also great, but with a pedigree like J.M. Flagg and Will Eisner, it's hard to see how you could go wrong.

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Anthony J Lombardi
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My fav 's are

Union Jack, Captain America, Captain Britain's first outfit.
I like the character of Torch of LIberty. When i first saw it I thought oh wow JB drew what Bucky would look like as an adult. I imagined he didn't die in the rocket explosion and during the time while Cap was frozen Bucky grew up and continued on in Cap's memory.

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Jay Matthews
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What about the all time classic?



P.S. I actually own this, and a few more issues.  Scored them out of a dollar box a year or two ago.
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Charles Jones
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Check out those Ray GUNS!
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Mike Norris
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Perfect example of going overboard on the symbology. And the leg stripes Eewww!!!!!

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Paul Lloyd
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I've always thought that this was a good play on Captain America's costume:

I didn't like the first Captain Britain costume. Too fussy:

 

But the second Captain Britain costume is my all-time favourite patriotic costume:

(the first Captain UK costume was a good variation on it)

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Robert Last
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I've always been the other way round on the Captain Britain costumes. I always thought the second one was too fussy (admitedly the wrist bands of the first could be simpler, say like Union Jacks)
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Kevin Hagerman
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Union Jack was pretty cool.  I really like Minute Man from the Freedom Force game, but that may be because I "was" Minute Man.
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Jason Kirk
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I think red and white strips, whilst nice on a flag, don't drape too well over the human body. 

I've never really liked any of the Captain Britain costumes. They all make the mistake of carrying the flag motif just a little too far - same with most patriot heroes really. The Union Flag design on the torso of the second one above is inspired, but the repetiton on the face is just too much.
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