Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: Captain America TPB #1-1ST VF 2022
| Grade | VF |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
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Description
Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Captain America Comics (1941-1954 Golden Age) #1 and 78 and stories from Tales of Suspense (1959) #59, 63-68, 75-81, and 92-95 and Captain America (1968-1996 1st Series) #110-113.
Series Edited by Ben Saunders. Written by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, and Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby, John Romita, Sr., Al Liederman, Chic Stone, Frank Giacoia, Dick Ayers, John Tartaglione, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, George Tuska, Tom Palmer, and Jim Steranko. Cover by Jack Kirby. Introduction by Ben Saunders. Foreword by Gene Luen Yang.
Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated comic book anthologies of the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvels transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition
It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as explorations of the relationship between power and responsibility; as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the pain of adolescence and the fluid nature of identity; as examinations of the meaning, and limits, of patriotism; as ironic juxtapositions of the cosmic and the quotidian; as resources for the understanding of political and social history; and as high watermarks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning. For the first time, these classic stories of some of the most iconic super heroes in the history of American comics are Penguin Classics. Debuting in 1941—almost a year before the events of Pearl Harbor— Captain America was initially conceived by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a pop culture argument for US intervention in the European war against fascism.
This collection includes his first appearances from 1941 alongside key examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which the newly resurrected hero of World War II struggles to find his place in an unfamiliar world. The transformation of this American icon thus marks a parallel transformation in the nation itself.
The introduction offers insight into the social and political significance of Captain America as a character and a national symbol, while a critical apparatus and appendices shed further light on his creative development.
Softcover, 400 pages, full color.
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