Captain America, No. 1
Comic book
By: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
Date: March 1941
Source: Simon, Joe, and Jack Kirby. Captain America, No. 1, March 1941. Reprinted in Spillane, Mickey, et al. Golden Age of Marvel, Vol. 2. New York: Marvel Comics, 1999.
About the Authors: Joe Simon wrote and Jack Kirby (1918–1994) illustrated some of the most vibrant comic books of the 1940s, the "Golden Age" of comics. The pair created Captain America, the embodiment of American ideals and patriotism, and continued working for Marvel Comics until the comic book industry failed after the end of World War II (1939–1945). Kirby and Simon resurrected their careers as the comic business boomed again in the 1960s, the beginning of the "Silver Age" of comic books. Along with Marvel icon Stan Lee, Kirby developed several characters whose popularity continues to the present, including the Incredible Hulk, the...
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