Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some
accounts Steven Grant Rogers), is a Marvel Comics superhero.
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, he first appeared
in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941). Captain America
was the most prominent of a wave of patriotically-themed
superheroes that American comic book companies introduced
during World War II. With his sidekick Bucky, Captain
America faced Nazis and Japanese troops during his 1940s
heyday, but the hero faded into obscurity after the war.
In 1964, Marvel revived Captain America, revealing that
he had fallen from an experimental drone plane into the
North Atlantic in the final days of the war and spent
the past decades frozen in a state of suspended animation.
The hero found a new generation of readers as the leader
of the all-star group The Avengers and in a new solo series.
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