In honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Captain America this month, we're doing a countdown of your favorite Captain America stories of all-time.

You all voted, now here are the results of what you chose as the 75 Greatest Captain America Stories!

Enjoy!

65. "Reborn" Captain America #600, Captain America Reborn #1-6

Ed Brubaker brought Captain America back from the dead in this storyline that involved Captain America traveling through time, re-living his life, as he struggles to get home, where the Red Skull has an evil plot in store for him. Bryan Hitch and Butch Guice did the fabulous-looking artwork for this epic series...









64. "By the Dawn's Early Light!" Captain America #247-249

John Byrne and Roger Stern (along with finisher Joe Rubinstein) began their run with this two-parter which first resolved some loose ends from previous Cap runs and then sent Cap on a battle with the evil Machinesmith.

This storyline also introduced one of Cap's top love interests, Bernie Rosenthal...









I love the personality that they gave Machinesmith. They really developed him well.

63. "Mean Strees" Captain America #272

This book has the striking Mike Zeck/John Beatty cover with Cap surrounded by a pile of rats...



This issue (by J.M. DeMatteis, Mike Zeck and John Beatty) introduced Vermin, who ended up playing a major role in later DeMatteis storylines, including Kraven's Last Hunt.

In a compelling sequence, Cap is almost pushed over the line by Vermin...







62. "What If the Invaders Had Stayed Together After World War II?" What If...? #4

This classic issue of What If...? by Roy Thomas and Franks Robbins and Springer introduced the notable retcon of explaining how Captain America was around after World War II (like he was in Timely and Atlas Comics) despite Cap and Bucky seemingly dying before World War II ended. This opened up a world of possibilities for later Cap writers....







61. "Tess-One" Captain America Annual #8

Another classic Zeck cover!



This 1986 annual by Mark Gruenwald, Mike Zeck and John Beatty has Captain America and Wolverine clash in their different approaches to fighting bad guys...







But mostly, that cover! Oh man!

60. "The Burden of Dreams" Captain America #31-36

This is the story arc where Bucky Barnes takes on the identity of Captain America, right in the thick of a nationwide crisis, as the Red Skull and his cronies are trying to tear down the entire United States!

Check out Bucky in action for the first time as Cap...









59. The Adaptoid" Tales of Suspense #82-84

This arc by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Frank Giacoia introduced a longtime thorn in Cap's side (and later, the Avengers) the Adaptoid, who first tries to drive Cap nuts and then takes over his identity. However, the Tumbler shows up on the scene and shows that Cap has something special as he kicks the Adaptoid's butt.

Then Cap steps in...









58. "The Anti-Cap" Captain America and Falcon #1-14

Just the second arc on this series got enough votes to make the list, but also plenty of voters asked if they could treat it as a single arc, so since only one arc made it, I figured I'd count it as a single story (because really, what's the difference now?)

Anyhow, this Christopher Priest series (with art by Bart Sears and Joe Bennett mostly) dealt with the introduction of a sort of "Anti-Captain America" working black ops for a secret Naval operation. Cap and the Falcon were investigating it and during their missions, the Falcon has been acting erratic, as Priest embraces the odd history of the Falcon with his past (since retconned) as a street hustler - in really striking fashion...









Falcon was a bit more like his typical self by the end of the series, which seemed like it was setting up a possible Falcon follow-up series, but that never occurred.

57. "Sanctuary" Captain America #454

In the last issue of their way too short initial run, Mark Waid, Ron Garney and Scott Koblish tie everything up beautifully.

In the previous arc, Sharon Carter disappears with a device that has all of Cap's top secret info on it. In the next issue, Captain America #454, the LAST issue of Waid and Garney's sadly too-short run, Cap goes after her and finds out what her game is. She's trying to use the device to draw an Asian warlord out of hiding so she can assassinate him. She figures that with him dead, the government he formed would collapse, and eventually resistance fighters will build up to the point where they can rescue all the people stuck in a prison camp (a prison camp that Carter herself spent some time in in the past). When Cap sees the prison camp, well, he has a different take on the situation...









Wow.

Okay, so SHIELD has to get out of there before they start a full-fledged war, only Sharon is not willing to go with SHIELD just yet (also, do note that when Sharon showed up in the book again, we learn that she's sort of pissed that Cap never came to check to see if she was really dead way back when - so she was dealing with some abandonment issues). So she and Cap share a final salute. Beautiful.

56. "If A Hostage Should Die" Tales of Suspense #77

This striking flashback story by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, John Romita and Frank Giacoia introduced Peggy Carter and boy, is she badass!!





They, of course, keep her the opposite of safe and she ends up in a prison camp. Cap leads an attack to save her. She, meanwhile, is not waiting to be saved...





Yes, tragically, Cap's gal loses her memory! She eventually returns during Steve Englehart's run.