Browsing by Author "Deverell, Richard D."
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Captain America Comics as Historically Grounded Cultural Criticism
(2013-04-20)After Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created him in 1941, Captain America served the writers and editors of Timely, then Atlas, and finally Marvel comics as a means to comment upon and critique American culture. In the 1950s, ... -
Men of Steel and Sentinels of Liberty: Superman and Captain America as Civilians and Soldiers in World War II
(2014-04-26)During World War II, both Timely Comics and DC used Superman and Captain America to contextualize the war and present various ideologies to their readers. The comics, in keeping with historian John Dower’s thesis , portrayed ...
