The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories,
seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's
transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.
A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition
Collects Captain America Comics #1 (1941); the Captain America
stories from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95,
#110-113 (1964-1969); "Captain America...Commie Smasher" from Captain
America #78 (1954). 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 metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as
meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in
the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.
Drawing upon multiple comic book series, this collection includes
Captain America's very first appearances from 1941 alongside key
examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which Steve Rogers,
the newly resurrected hero of World War II, searches to find his place
in a new and unfamiliar world. As the contents reveal, the
transformations of this American icon thus mark parallel transformations
in the nation itself.
A foreword by Gene Luen Yang and scholarly introductions and apparatus
by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of
Captain America and classic Marvel comics.
The Deluxe Hardcover edition features gold foil stamping, gold top stain
edges, special endpapers with artwork spotlighting series villains, and
full-color art throughout.
