"MARVEL"

Includes bibliographical references.

Series introduction by Ben Saunders -- Foreword by Gene Luen Yang -- Volume introduction by Ben Saunders -- Captain America comics #1, March 1941 -- Tales of Suspense #59, November 1964, "Captain America" -- Tales of Suspense #63, March 1965, "The origin of Captain America!" -- Tales of Suspense #64, April 1965, "Among us, wreckers dwell!" -- Tales of Suspense #65, May 1965, "The Red Skull strikes!" -- Tales of Suspense #66, June 1965, "The fantastic origin of the Red Skull" -- Tales of Suspense #67, July 1965, "Lest tyranny triumph!" -- Tales of Suspense #68, August 1965, "The sentinel and the spy!" -- Back and forward : Tales of Suspense #69-74 -- Tales of Suspense #75, March 1966, "30 minutes live!" -- Tales of Suspense #76, April 1966, "The Gladiator, the girl, and the glory!" -- Tales of Suspense #77, May 1966, "If a hostage should die!" -- Tales of Suspense #78, June 1966, "Them!" -- Tales of Suspense #79, July 1966, "The Red Skull lives!" -- Tales of Suspense #80, August 1966, "He who holds the cosmic cube!" -- Tales of Suspense #81, September 1966, "The Red Skull supreme!" -- The fighting acrobat : Tales of Suspense #82-91 -- Tales of Suspense #92, August 1967, "Before my eyes, Nick Fury died!" -- Tales of Suspense #93, September 1967, "Into the jaws... of A.I.M.!" -- Tales of Suspense #94, October 1967, "If this be... Modok!" -- Tales of Suspense #95, November 1967, "A time to die... a time to live!" -- Old foes return : Tales of Suspense #96-99, Captain America #100-109 -- Captain America #110, February 1969, "The hero that was!" -- Captain America #111, March 1969, "Tomorrow you live, tonight I die!" -- Captain America #113, May 1969, "The strange death of Captain America!" -- Appendix one : "Captain America... commie smasher" -- Appendix two : "Captain America lives again!" -- Appendix three : "Afterword" by Jim Steranko -- Suggestions for further reading.

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.