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Captain America
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- Book Synopsis
- 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 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-colour art throughout.
- About The Author
- Born Jacob Kurtzberg to Jewish-Austrian parents on New York's Lower East Side, Jack Kirby (1917-1994) came of age at the birth of the American comic book industry. Horrified by the rise of Nazism, Kirby co-created the patriotic hero Captain America with Joe Simon in 1940. Throughout the 1940s and early '50s, Kirby and Simon produced com-ics in every popular genre, from Western to romance. In 1958, Kirby began his collaboration with Stan Lee. The two men co-created the foundational text of the modern Marvel Universe - The Fantastic Four - and introduced a mind-boggling array of new characters, including the Avengers, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, the Silver Surfer, and the X-Men. Today, Kirby is regarded as one of the most important and influential creators in the history of American comics.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780143135753
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics, (14 June 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 384
- Weight
- 919 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 252 x 180 x 25 mm
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