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Captain Americahas faced off against his fair share of villains over the decennium - whether it was the timehe knocked out Hitler , or whenhe battled a pack of werewolves , or even that meter hewent toe - to - toe with Batman . But , it was early in the First Avenger ’s heroic vocation , in 1942’sCaptain America # 21 , when he trade blow withliterallyhis most devilish opponent to date when he found himself in a free-for-all with Satan himself .
The story open with a warning to not take the story : " It will knock on the threshold of your sanity ! It will breathe the chill breathing space of evil into the essence of your bones ! Why ? Because it is of event no mortal heart should see … no living ear should hear . " So it ’s a hopeful kickoff . This finicky tale sport the first and only show of the villain Balthar the Sorcerer , who has isolated himself from humankind to study the dark nontextual matter . Seemingly by accident , he summons Satan , who take Balthar do his bidding if he require to live . The Devil orders Balthar to bring him " the greatest wiz of the good , the true , the righteous , " believing that defeating him in conflict would show his dominion over Earth .
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Balthar uses an existent crystal ball to deduce Captain America fit out the banknote . After go on a offence fling to try out and draw him out , Balthar end up kidnapping Bucky , leaving behind a note head Cap to his den . In his pursuit , Captain America is momentarily crippled when he … have some dust in his eyes . But despite that vault , he soldiers on .
Upon finding Balthar ’s hush-hush cave , Cap ends up killing the sorcerer by bouncing his baneful center lasers off of his shield and back at the scoundrel . But a now rescued Bucky has a bad feeling about this and the ground set out the quake . As the cave splits open , Satan appears to last confront off against the " mightiest champion of good of all earthly world . " Then , in a surprisingly short and anticlimactic fight hold up about a pageboy and a half , Captain America quiver the Satan down fairly effortlessly . And weirdly , it ’s the look on Cap ’s side that was the net straw to vanquish Satan back to hell , with the devil exclaiming as he retreats , " Your eyes ! I ca n’t stand the aspect in them ! Stop ! I accept frustration ! "
After call he ’ll return for revenge , Satan vanishes , leave Cap and Bucky alone in the cave . While it ’s debatable whether dust in the eye of Satan shew to be the Holy Scripture ’s most formidable antagonist , the span ( for reasons unexplained ) correspond to never tell the floor of what they ’d just been through to anyone . Apparently out of every insane thing that ’s happened throughout the Marvel universe , they deemed the events ofCaptain America # 21too much for the population to palm .
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