Full Description
For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death.
This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the creation of Captain America in light of the Jewish American experience; the relationship between Captain America and UK Marvel's Captain Britain; the groundbreaking partnership between Captain America and African American superhero the Falcon; and the attempts made to kill the character before his "real" death.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Key to Abbreviations
Foreword by John Shelton Lawrence
Introduction by Robert G. Weiner
GENERAL HISTORY
O Captain! My Captain!
Christopher J. Hayton and David L. Albright
WORLD WAR
Madmen, Morons, and Monocles: The Portrayal of the Nazis in Captain America
John E. Moser
The Invaders and the All-Star Squadron: Roy Thomas Revisits the Golden
Mark R. McDermott
Graphic Imagery: Jewish American Comic Book Creators' Depictions of Class, Race, Patriotism and the Birth of the Good Captain
Nicholas Yanes
RACIAL ISSUES
Not Just Another Racist Honkey: A History of Racial Representation in Captain America and Related Publications
Ora C. McWilliams
Weakness Is a Crime: Captain America and the Eugenic Ideal in Early Twentieth-Century America
Brian E. Hack.
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES
Sixty-Five Years of Guilt Over the Death of Bucky
Robert G. Weiner
Captain America, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and the Vietnam
Shawn Gillen
COMPARISONS OF CAPTAIN AMERICA WITH OTHER CHARACTERS
The Historical Value of Bronze Age Comics: Captain America and the Haunted Tank
Nicholas D. Molnar
The Ultimate American?
Jackson Sutliff
The Alpha and the Omega: Captain America and the Punisher
Cord Scott
Captain America and Captain Britain: Geopolitical Identity and "the Special Relationship"
Jason Dittmer
History of the Marvel Zombies and Colonel America among the Marvel Zombies
Mark R. McDermott
POLITICAL INTERPRETATIONS AND THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA
"Captain America Must Die": The Many Afterlives of Steve Rogers
David Walton
Stevie's Got a Gun: Captain America and His Problematic Use of Lethal Force
Phillip L. Cunningham
A Genealogy of Evil: Captain America vs. the Shadows of the National Imagined Community
Christian Steinmetz
LITERARY INTERPRETATIONS
The Man Behind the Mask? Models of Masculinity and the Persona of Heroes in Captain America Prose Novels
Mike S. DuBose
GUIDES
A Selected Webography: FanFiction
Freedonia Paschall
A Selected Filmographic Essay
Cord Scott and Robert G. Weiner
A Selected Bibliographic Essay: Academic Literature
Jason Dittmer and Robert G. Weiner
Afterword by J.M. DeMatteis
About the Contributors
Index
