Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      vii
Key to Abbreviations      xi
Foreword by John Shelton Lawrence      1
Introduction by Robert G. Weiner      9

GENERAL HISTORY
O Captain! My Captain!
Christopher J. Hayton and David L. Albright      15

WORLD WAR II
Madmen, Morons, and Monocles: The Portrayal of the Nazis in Captain America
John E. Moser      24
The Invaders and the All-Star Squadron: Roy Thomas Revisits the Golden Age
Mark R. McDermott      36
Graphic Imagery: Jewish American Comic Book Creators’ Depictions of Class, Race, Patriotism and the Birth of the Good Captain
Nicholas Yanes      53

RACIAL ISSUES
Not Just Another Racist Honkey: A History of Racial Representation in Captain America and Related Publications
Ora C. McWilliams      66
Weakness Is a Crime: Captain America and the Eugenic Ideal in Early Twentieth-Century America
Brian E. Hack.      79

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES
Sixty-Five Years of Guilt Over the Death of Bucky
Robert G. Weiner      90
Captain America, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and the Vietnam Era
Shawn Gillen      104

COMPARISONS OF CAPTAIN AMERICA WITH OTHER CHARACTERS
The Historical Value of Bronze Age Comics: Captain America and the Haunted Tank
Nicholas D. Molnar      116
The Ultimate American?
Jackson Sutliff      121
The Alpha and the Omega: Captain America and the Punisher
Cord Scott      125
Captain America and Captain Britain: Geopolitical Identity and “the Special Relationship”
Jason Dittmer      135
History of the Marvel Zombies and Colonel America among the Marvel Zombies
Mark R. McDermott      147

POLITICAL INTERPRETATIONS AND THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA
“Captain America Must Die”: The Many Afterlives of Steve Rogers
David Walton      160
Stevie’s Got a Gun: Captain America and His Problematic Use of Lethal Force
Phillip L. Cunningham      176
A Genealogy of Evil: Captain America vs. the Shadows of the National Imagined Community
Christian Steinmetz      190

LITERARY INTERPRETATIONS
The Man Behind the Mask? Models of Masculinity and the Persona of Heroes in Captain America Prose Novels
Mike S. DuBose      204

GUIDES
A Selected Webography: FanFiction
Freedonia Paschall      215
A Selected Filmographic Essay
Cord Scott and Robert G. Weiner      218
A Selected Bibliographic Essay: Academic Literature
Jason Dittmer and Robert G. Weiner      227
Afterword by J.M. DeMatteis      241
About the Contributors      245
Index      247