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I wrote the first Captain America book with penciled lettering right on the drawing boards, with very rough sketches for figures and backgrounds. There might have been two Als, but there was only one Jack Kirby . but I acceded to Kirby's wishes and, it turned out, was lucky that I did. "I'll pencil it myself and make the deadline." I hadn't expected this kind of reaction . "It's just a matter of a quick deadline for the first issue." "You're still number one, Jack," I assured him. The two Als were eager to join in on the new Captain America book, but Jack Kirby was visibly upset. If they worked on it, and if one inker tied the three styles together, I believed the final product would emerge as quite uniform. Actually, their work was not too far from Kirby's. Al Avison and Al Gabriele often worked together and were quite successful in adapting their individual styles to each other. There were two young artists from Connecticut that had made a strong impression on me. I didn't have a lot of objections to putting a crew on the first issue .

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Needing to fill a full comic with primarily one character's stories, Simon did not believe that his regular creative partner, artist Jack Kirby, could handle the workload alone:

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Simon recalled in his autobiography that Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman gave him the go-ahead and directed that a Captain America solo comic book series be published as soon as possible. The boy companion was simply named Bucky, after my friend Bucky Pierson, a star on our high school basketball team. There weren't a lot of captains in comics. "Captain America" had a good sound to it. "I wrote the name 'Super American' at the bottom of the page," Simon said in his autobiography, and then decided: In 1940, writer Joe Simon conceived the idea for Captain America and made a sketch of the character in costume.

Captain America was ranked sixth on IGN's "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time" in 2011, second in their list of "The Top 50 Avengers" in 2012, and second in their "Top 25 best Marvel superheroes" list in 2014. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the character is portrayed by Chris Evans. Since then, the character has been featured in other films and television series.

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Although Captain America often struggles to maintain his ideals as a man out of his time, he remains a highly respected figure both with the American public and in the superhero community, which includes becoming the long-time leader of the Avengers.Ĭaptain America was the first Marvel Comics character to appear in media outside comics with the release of the 1944 movie serial, Captain America. Near the end of the war, he was trapped in ice and survived in suspended animation until he was revived in modern times.

Captain America is the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a frail young artist enhanced to the peak of human perfection by an experimental " super-soldier serum" after joining the military to aid the United States government's efforts in World War II. The character wears a costume bearing an American flag motif, and he utilizes a nearly-indestructible shield that he throws as a projectile. Since Marvel Comics revived the character in 1964, Captain America has remained in publication. The popularity of superheroes waned following the war, and the Captain America comic book was discontinued in 1950, with a short-lived revival in 1953. Captain America was designed as a patriotic supersoldier who often fought the Axis powers of World War II and was Timely Comics' most popular character during the wartime period. Created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 ( cover dated March 1941) from Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics.