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Captain America

Avenger, Hero, Icon

Rich Johnson

$50

Hardback

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English
Miscellaneous
18 March 2025
Series: Captain America
An engaging insider’s celebration of Captain America’s seminal comic book stories over the comic book’s 80 year run, including all things Cap: his character’s origin; various significant storylines over the decades; and his importance as a cultural icon in today’s wildly popular superhero climate. 

Captain America explores the phenomenon of one of Marvel

Comics’s

most

popular

superheroes

with

the 30

most

significant

and

influential

Captain

America stories

and

includes

relevant

spinoffs

and

ancillary comic

book

events.

Framed

by

longtime

comic

book industry insider Rich Johnson, the story is told using countless

comic

book

images,

film

stills,

and

story-boards:

how

Steve

Rogers

origin

story

as

Cap

began as a WWII hero and where his story took him further into

the

twentieth

century

and

beyond;

costume

and character

story

changes

over

the

decades;

the

influence

of

Captain

America

on

all

other

comic

book characters

since

Cap’s

inception;

and

how

Captain America

is

even

powerful

and

relevant

in

today’s comic

book

(and

superhero

film)

culture.

The

book contains more than 200 Captain America illustrations, including

covers,

interior

comic

art,

and

sketch

treat-ments, beginning with his inception in the early 1940s to

present-day

treatments

of

the

character. Captain America will

appeal

to

the

fans

looking

for

a

great place to start learning about Cap, to megafans, and to Marvel collectors alike.
By:  
Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 216mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9780789345875
ISBN 10:   0789345870
Series:   Captain America
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product

Rich Johnson is a longtime comic book industry main-stay. Johnson spent time as a VP with DC Comics, a VP of Lion Forge Press, and has been an Eisner Awards judge. He writes for comics website The Beat, and founded and was co-Publishing Director of manga imprint Yen Press. Johnson is also an adjunct professor at Drexel and Pace Universit

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