{"id":1102,"date":"2019-05-31T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2022-02-11T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T04:04:54","slug":"144-captain-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/144-captain-america\/","title":{"rendered":"144 &#8211; Captain America!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/captain-america-and-bucky-524x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel from Captain America #1, December 1940\" class=\"wp-image-1103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/captain-america-and-bucky-524x1024.png 524w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/captain-america-and-bucky-154x300.png 154w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/captain-america-and-bucky.png 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Captain America #1, December 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Simon\">Joe Simon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Kirby\">Jack Kirby<\/a> have their first hit with Captain America #1 (December 1940).  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_America\">Captain America<\/a> is the first character to star in his own comic book, not as a try-out feature in another book, and comes complete with a fully-fleshed out (and interesting) origin, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bucky_Barnes\">a sidekick<\/a> and an iconic villain (the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Skull\">Red Skull<\/a>) all wrapped up in super-patriotic, Nazi-busting bubble wrap.  The origin story even has a throw-away mention of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_Torch_(android)\">the Human Torch<\/a> to weave into the rest of the Marvel Golden Age continuity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/first-red-skull.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Captain America #1, December 1940\" class=\"wp-image-1106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/first-red-skull.png 822w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/first-red-skull-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/first-red-skull-768x570.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Another panel from Captain America #1, December 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Simon and Jack Kirby have their first hit with Captain America #1 (December 1940). Captain America is the first character to star in his own comic book, not as a try-out feature in another book, and comes complete with a fully-fleshed out (and interesting) origin, a sidekick and an iconic villain (the Red Skull) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,196,186,118,32,161,160,90,192,337,187,147,132],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-avengers","tag-bucky","tag-captain-america","tag-firsts","tag-jack-kirby","tag-joe-simon","tag-marvel","tag-nazis","tag-origin","tag-red-skull","tag-sidekick","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}