Bibliograph

Captain America, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, John Romita, Sr. ; foreword by Gene Luen Yang ; introduction by Ben Saunders

Type

Label

Captain America, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, John Romita, Sr. ; foreword by Gene Luen Yang ; introduction by Ben Saunders

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Captain America

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1314374490

Responsibility statement

Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, John Romita, Sr. ; foreword by Gene Luen Yang ; introduction by Ben Saunders

Series statement

Penguin classics Marvel collection

Summary

Collects Captain America Comics #1 (1941); the Captain America stories from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95, #110-113 (1964-1969); "Captain America...Commie Smasher" from Captain America #78 (1954). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. Drawing upon multiple comic book series, this collection includes Captain America's very first appearances from 1941 alongside key examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which Steve Rogers, the newly resurrected hero of World War II, searches to find his place in a new and unfamiliar world. As the contents reveal, the transformations of this American icon thus mark parallel transformations in the nation itself

Target audience

adult

Classification