As I’ve mentioned, (once or thrice), I’m something of a comicbook fan. Well, back in January, I spotted the published image for the cover of Captain America #616 which celebrates the 70th anniversary of this all-American comicbook hero; and well, it looked like the image to the right. As you can see, it is an image of Captain America standing in front of an American Flag. However, the eagle-eyed among you will notice that there is actually something wrong with this 70th anniversary issue of this American icon.
If, like me, you are a Boy Scout, or have served in the military (I didn’t), you will notice something wrong with this image. Yep, the flag is hung wrong. Anyone familiar with Flag protocols will know that the U.S. flag is always hung with he blue star field in the upper left corner. well, I contacted my editor over at Marvel (I work on the Marvel Index project), and informed him of the error.
Well, when Cap #161 came out last week the cover actually looked like this:

From what I subsequently learned from my editor, it was because I called in when I did, the Cap Editor was able to fix the image before it got shipped off to the printer.
Seriously, how cool is that?
The Perfessor