

How could this be, though? What had happened to him after the war? Didn’t he go around beating up common criminals, and then the Communists? And just how was he supposed to have survived in the ice all that time? Captain America may have had a little help from readers who expressed their delight in the return of a classic character, and it wouldn’t be long before the real Cap-the guy who smashed Hitler in the face-burst onto the scene again. It all could have finished there, but it didn’t. A story in which the modern Human Torch-Johnny Storm, a member of the Fantastic Four-meets a man who claims to be Captain America from the 1940s and ’50s. Lee and Kirby used him a few months earlier in Strange Tales #114 (cover date November 1963), for The Human Torch Meets…Captain America.

Marvel's Captain America: The First 80 Years EXCLUSIVE ExcerptĬap was not Timely’s first Super Hero, since the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner got their start in Marvel Comics #1, but he certainly remained the most famous.
