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[[File:Captain America by JPRart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Captain America; detail from ''Avengers'' (2011), digital painting by Jeremy Roberts.]] | [[File:Captain America by JPRart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Captain America; detail from ''Avengers'' (2011), digital painting by Jeremy Roberts.]] | ||
| − | '''Captain America''' is a | + | '''Captain America''' is a fictional [[superhero]] created in 1941 for Timely Comics by [[Joe Simon]] and [[Jack Kirby]], and is currently published under several titles by [[Marvel Comics]]. The embodiment of American patriotism just as [[World War II]] had begun, Captain America became Timely's best-selling title during the comic industry's "golden age", over time becoming one of the most recognizable and famous characters in the genre. |
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| + | In Europe, [[Adolf Hitler]] was over-running the continent, and American soldiers were getting ready for the eventual conflict. One of the young men making repeated attempts to enlist - and repeatedly rejected - was Steven Rogers, a physically-frail fine-arts student and comic book artist who was aware of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and wanted to do something about it. Dr. Josef Reinstein would see the young man's determination and offer him an opportunity as a test subject in a proposed "Super Soldier Project", the idea of which would be to have a unit of specially-enhanced, physically strong soldiers who be potentially dropped behind enemy lines to carry out missions considered too dangerous for lesser men. The effect of the test - a serum combined with "vita-rays" - turns Rogers into a super-soldier, but before it could be replicated Reinstein is killed by a Nazi infiltrator who, it is later discovered, works for the leader of the German terror and espionage apparatus, Johann Schmidt, whose disfigured head gave him the byname "Red Skull". | ||
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[[Category: Superheroes]] | [[Category: Superheroes]] | ||
[[Category: Marvel]] | [[Category: Marvel]] | ||
[[Category: Comic Characters]] | [[Category: Comic Characters]] | ||
Revision as of 13:59, May 1, 2012
Captain America is a fictional superhero created in 1941 for Timely Comics by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and is currently published under several titles by Marvel Comics. The embodiment of American patriotism just as World War II had begun, Captain America became Timely's best-selling title during the comic industry's "golden age", over time becoming one of the most recognizable and famous characters in the genre.
Comics lore
In Europe, Adolf Hitler was over-running the continent, and American soldiers were getting ready for the eventual conflict. One of the young men making repeated attempts to enlist - and repeatedly rejected - was Steven Rogers, a physically-frail fine-arts student and comic book artist who was aware of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and wanted to do something about it. Dr. Josef Reinstein would see the young man's determination and offer him an opportunity as a test subject in a proposed "Super Soldier Project", the idea of which would be to have a unit of specially-enhanced, physically strong soldiers who be potentially dropped behind enemy lines to carry out missions considered too dangerous for lesser men. The effect of the test - a serum combined with "vita-rays" - turns Rogers into a super-soldier, but before it could be replicated Reinstein is killed by a Nazi infiltrator who, it is later discovered, works for the leader of the German terror and espionage apparatus, Johann Schmidt, whose disfigured head gave him the byname "Red Skull".