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Post by dans on Feb 4, 2023 13:33:22 GMT
I have never read the original origin of Captain America before. The art is surprisingly good for the period. The story references the Human Torch. I never realized it before, but the Super Soldier Serum was also supposed to increase Steve's intelligence to the human ultimate, as well as his physique. And he met Bucky, the 'mascot' of the Army camp where Steve goes for Basic, in the same story. No mention of Bucky's background, or training.
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Post by DocQuantum on Feb 4, 2023 18:42:21 GMT
Having been familiar only with the post-1960s version of Captain America, I was surprised when I realized that in the 1940s Captain America never actually went to war. He was always Stateside in that U.S. Army training camp during the whole war! It was only in the retcons by Kirby in the Silver Age that he went over to Europe to punch Nazis in the face. In the actual comics of the time, Captain America was mostly busy fighting "ghost and goblin" type criminals and the occasional Nazi saboteur. Even the Red Skull of the 1940s was not the Red Skull we know at all, but some American saboteur working for the Germans.
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 5, 2023 1:33:56 GMT
I always thought Bucky must be a semi-orphaned Army kid who hung around with his dad's old unit.
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Post by johnreiter902 on Feb 5, 2023 13:36:31 GMT
Having been familiar only with the post-1960s version of Captain America, I was surprised when I realized that in the 1940s Captain America never actually went to war. He was always Stateside in that U.S. Army training camp during the whole war! It was only in the retcons by Kirby in the Silver Age that he went over to Europe to punch Nazis in the face. In the actual comics of the time, Captain America was mostly busy fighting "ghost and goblin" type criminals and the occasional Nazi saboteur. Even the Red Skull of the 1940s was not the Red Skull we know at all, but some American saboteur working for the Germans. I know there were some golden age comics where Cap is deployed to India and the South Pacific, but you're right, his European adventures I think are all ret-cons |
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Post by dans on Feb 5, 2023 16:02:23 GMT
Cap DID go to Europe in his first edition, just long enough to punch out Hitler - but he didn't stay any longer than that...
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Post by johnreiter902 on Feb 6, 2023 13:16:55 GMT
Well, if you go based on the covers, he had a lot of untold European adventures in the golden age
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