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Shortly after his return, Stan and Jack gave us this scene with Cap in THE AVENGERS…

Later, it was decided that Cap's shield should not be so "high tech", and his ability to throw it with such skill was based on precisely that, skill, not magnetic manipulations. So the above was retconned away as a "spare" shield Iron Man had modified.

Notice that giving the shield a thick edge seems to have really confused the colorist on the second page!

(Historic Note: This is an example of where Stan seems to have written something other than what Jack drew. From Iron Man's pose on the splash, I get the impression he's INSTRUCTING Cap on the use of the new shield, not merely being impressed by how well the good Captain handles it. Probably Stan didn't like the idea of Cap needing instruction from anybody! The dialog in the first few panels of the next page seems not to really fit the pictures either.)

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With any piece, I use different tools to produce different lines. A finer point for faces, for instance, than for heavy holding lines.