Re: When Cap comes back...

My only point is that, whatever the writers have called it over the
years, the costume has virtually always been drawn with the
scales...in the old days, it was mostly a faint hint of scale pattern,
but recent artists have taken to drawing every single scale, and I
believe that is what the OP was objecting to...

I do recall the issues you have mentioned...in fact, I just checked my
Cap #255...it appears that Byrne did indeed try to draw the upper
shirt to look contoured, like chain mail rather than scale
mail...that must be the no-scales era you were thinking of.

BTW, in Punisher vs. Captain America #1, Punisher shoots Cap twice,
once in the shoulder and once in the chest...both time, individual
scales are seen flying off from the bullet impact site. They might
have always called it chain mail, but it got drawn like scale mail for
60+ years.

On 27 Mar 2007 01:07:34 -0700, "The Black Guardian" <blakgard@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

The Black Guardian wrote:
Dirk Zorn wrote:
Oh, there may be isolated issues wherein Cap was drawn
scale-less, but all the major Cap artists ( Kirby, Romita,
Buscema, Zeck, Garney, Cassaday etc.) have always drawn him with
the scales. I just checked several random covers from my
collection, covering ToS #56 to the present and saw no
scale-less pictures...Specific issues consulted included #122
1969, #174 1974, #231 1978, #261 1981, #291 1983, and #446 1996.
If there is a scale-less era back there somewhere, I for one
don't remember it. It should be easy enough to verify,
though...can anyone narrow it to something smaller than a
30-year window?

Most of those are actually chainmail. For well over a decade, it
was all chainmail, until Marvel Knights brought back the scalemail.

Plus, to quote Cap in CA #255, his armour is "lightweight chain mail
made from Duralumin." There were many, many references in the books to
him wearing chainmail. I even recall at least one reference to him
having to repair the *links*; scalemail doesn't have links, and I
recall at least one individual panel that showed the links.

And during his classic fight against Baron Blood, he was actually
saved by the fact that he was wearing a chainmail coif and hauberk.
Scalemail wouldn't have allowed that protection, because it's
impossible to make scaling for the neck.

.

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