Captain America
Captain America by Jack Kirby is a significant addition to the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection, published on June 14, 2022. This 400-page edition presents the origin stories and seminal tales of Captain America, showcasing the character’s evolution from his first appearance in 1941 through key narratives from the 1960s. The collection highlights the transformative influence of Marvel Comics on American popular culture, emphasizing the depth of its visual narratives and their reflections on identity and difference.
Readers will find a comprehensive anthology that includes Captain America’s earliest adventures, alongside critical stories that explore his journey as a hero in a changing world. The collection features contributions from Gene Luen Yang and Ben Saunders, providing scholarly insights into the significance of Captain America and the broader context of classic Marvel comics. With full-color art throughout, this edition serves as both a visual celebration and a historical exploration of one of the most iconic superheroes in the genre of comics and graphic novels.
Official synopsis Publisher
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.
Author
Publisher
Topics
FAQ
What is “Captain America” about?
Who is the author of “Captain America”?
When was “Captain America” published?
What is the ISBN for “Captain America”?
What are the book details (language, pages, edition)?
