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It's done by privledge
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
Which is the way he wants it !
Well, he gets it !
N' I don't like it any more than you men.
Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before
Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
-Guns 'n' Roses
With the uproar over the movie '300' with the country of Iran, and the studio's claim it was mostly fiction set in a time with actual facts, this was on my mind...
Captain America 'died' at the end (late forties, actually) of World War II, and only resurfaced for a few months in 1956, along with The Sub Mariner and The Human Torch, in stories, which, to me, were great, with amazing artwork by Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Dick Ayers, and John Romita Sr.
This was not for the times, and it wasn't until with (allegedly) $5000 in the bank and a staff less than ten, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby launched The Fantastic Four, based on inspiration from the work and sales of DC Comics' The Justice League, envisioned by editor Julius Schwartz.
Comics have always rode the cusp of media, entertainment, and yes, art, and Green Lantern/Green Arrow from DC, written by Dennis O'Neil and illustrated by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano explored current themes disguised even as Science Fiction.
This was not new as the show Star Trek (1966-1969) used the top Sci-Fi novelists, and could make effective statements about Viet Nam, etc, in the form of 'similiar planetary development'.
In 1963, the Sub Mariner, the prototypical Marvel 'anti hero', who was enraged at the massacre of all of his people by the human race, was busting up glaciers in a fury and found...in a block of ice, none other than Captain America, alive, in suspended animation.
When Cap was unwilling to join Namor, the Sub Mariner in his quest of vengeance against the surface dwelling human race, Captain America discovered the team of heroes, the Avengers, and wanted to lead them, but they were not interested and all of them resigned.
Cap then took Hawkeye, a second rate Robin Hood, The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, former second rate 'evil mutant' X-Men villians and the four of them defeated the forces of evil as easily or dare say, even easier than the so called 'A' team of Avengers.
Not only that, the book sold even better, as the fans of that time probably for the most part, hadn't even heard of Captain America, as mostly children read comic books then, until their mothers threw them away and they moved onto regular books.
This is a voucher for Stan Lee, who ran Marvel as a Madison Avenue campaign, where stories never ended and intertwined and Jack Kirby who...
In World War II, was in a foxhole, and his friend and comrade was fatally wounded and dying in his arms, and looked up at Jack and asked, "What happened?" and Jack replied, "You did!". It was then that Mr. Kirby realized that 'it's done by privledge' and went on to create nearly all of Marvels great legends, including Spiderman and DC Comics' The New Gods, Mr. Miracle and the Forever People...
Captain America has died once again, apparently, at the hands of the Red Skull?
This was the agonizing climax to Marvel's 'Civil War', where the U.S. government required all Marvel heroes to register all of their information, dividing these great legends.
This brings the question to mind, so what is the Sub Mariner doing these days, and when was the last time he busted up glaciers?

- (The) , posted 01/16/08

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