CAPTAIN AMERICA THE FIRST AVENGER MOVIE COVER MOVIE
Captain America: the First Avenger is totally movie related, complete with an abundance of movie stills to augment the story. Now, knowing the genesis of Captain America, and suspecting even America’s youngest readers could possibly get caught up in the movie, I was ready to tackle the book especially for younger readers. I have never been a big Captain American fan, older versions of Superman were more my thing, so I went off to the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and 5th Avenue so I could read the original comics books on microfiche there and familiarize myself with the early version of this superhero (and if you have an interest and you are in NYC, you can do the same thing.) Bucky is the regiments mascot, but when he accidentally discovers Steve in Captain America, Cap has not choice but to make Bucky his partner.Ĭaptain America's arch enemy appeared to be George Maxon A/K/A Red Skull, an American industrialist turned Nazi, but he turned out to only be an agent of the real Red Skull, Johann Schmidt, who didn’t appear in the comic books until October 1941. Afterwards, as his alter ego, Steve Rogers, he poses as an ordinary soldier in the US Army at Camp Lehigh, while Captain America becomes a “powerful force in the battle against spies and saboteurs!” (pg 7 of the original 1941 comic)Ĭap then acquires his side kick, Bucky Barnes, at Camp Lehigh. Captain America’s first feat of heroism takes place right in the lab that created him. When he sees how successful the serum is at creating a superhuman, he pulls his gun and shoots the scientist who created the serum and the remaining bottle of serum. Reinstein* that, before everyone’s eyes, turns him into a superhuman, the first of what is to become a corps of super-agents that “will makes them a terror to spies and saboteurs!” (pg 5 of the original 1941 comic) But the US Army has already been infiltrated by spies and saboteurs, and President Roosevelt inadvertently gave the OK for one of them to get into the lab as an observer to Steve Rogers’ transformation. Weakling Steve Rogers allows himself to be injected with a serum invented by Dr. The comic book Captain America was created as a World War II hero, 8 months before the United States entered the war. New? Captain America?Ĭap has been around since his first comic book in March 1941.īut I have to admit, even though I know Cap is an old superhero, I was curious, too. No doubt, everyone wants to see the newest superhero on the block. This week, the movie Captain America: the First Avenger knocked Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II right out of its first place box office standing. Cover Art from original Captain America comic,
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