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Captain America
  • Published: 15 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9780143135753
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $50.00

Captain America

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Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated comic book anthologies of the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.
 
A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition 

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.
 
A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition
 
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.
 
A foreword by Gene Luen Yang and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of Captain America and classic Marvel comics.

The Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-color art throughout.
  • Published: 15 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9780143135753
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $50.00
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About the authors

Stan Lee

Stan Lee is the co-creator of the most beloved characters in the history of comics, including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and many others. He is also the author of Stan Lee's Riftworld: Odyssey, and the editor of The Ultimate Spider-Man, The Ultimate Super-Villains, The Ultimate Silver Surfer, and The Ultimate X-Men, all from Boulevard.
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Jim Steranko

James?Steranko’s?comics career was short but explosive. Every title and character that he worked on — including?Daredevil,?Captain America,?X-Men, and?Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.?— was transformed, visually and narratively. He immersed himself in the history of pulp heroes but has combined comics traditions with innovative elements of commercial art and cinematic imagery. He wrote and published two volumes of? The?Steranko?History of Comics?in 1970 and 1972, and through his publishing company, Supergraphics, launched a comics news zine called?Comixscene, which evolved into?Prevue?and ran for 20 years until 1994. His numerous honors include induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2006.
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