By the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, Captain America Comics had become the publisher’s top-selling title, and, over the course of World War II, Captain America and Bucky fought the Axis powers on multiple fronts. Kirby designed the series' action scenes with an emphasis on a sense of continuity across panels, saying that he "choreographed" the sequences as one would a ballet, with a focus on exaggerated character movement. The two men co-created comics in every genre-crime, war, horror, science fiction, Western, humor, and romance-for numerous different publishers between 1940 and 1954.

These depictions would later be retconned as individuals who were not Steve Rogers assuming the role of Captain America; the 1950s "Commie Smasher" incarnation of the character, for example, was retconned as the villainous William Burnside in the 1970s. Meant to capture the flavor of a 1940's serial in this series readers get to see a Captain America before he become the self-assured adventurer and leader of the Avengers. Captain America was created in that atmosphere, he was a natural outgrowth of the passionate mood of the country.The two parties settled out of court, with Simon agreeing to a statement that the character had been created under terms of employment by the publisher, and was therefore work for hire owned by the company. As of 2007, an estimated 210 million copies of "Captain America" comic books had been sold in 75 countries. Discovered by the Avengers and revived, Steve Rogers is a man out of time, who remains vigilant in his battle to protect the innocent and uphold the American ideals of truth, justice and honor.

The book wears its heart on its sleeve and it's a little heavy-handed in places, sure, but it's nice to read a comic that isn't afraid to tell us that fascism is bad. Chris Evans interview: the Marvel star on politics, break-ups, and saying goodbye to Captain America". Horror comics were ascendant as a popular comic genre during this period; in keeping with the trend, the final two issues of Captain America Comics were published under the title Captain America's Weird Tales.My daughter loves super heroes and she loved this book which has nice illustration of Captain America story with pictures. Joe Simon described Bucky's creation as being largely motivated by a need to give Captain America "someone to talk to" and avoid the overuse of dialogue delivered through internal monologue, noting that "Bucky was brought in as a way of eliminating too many thought balloons. Sentry (2006) New Avengers/Transformers (2007 - 2008) New Invaders (2004 - 2005) New Thunderbolts (2004 - 2006) Nextwave: Agents of H.