Welcome to the 917th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our third legend, we look at how a coloring mistake messed around with a famous fight between Captain America and his evil doppelgänger by making both characters look identical in the comic.One of the most common tropes in popular fiction is the idea of the hero fighting against, in effect, their opposite. Sometimes that just means a character that is just like the hero, only evil (think Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty, Optimus Prime and Megatron, Wolverine and Sabretooth, etc.), but often that means the LITERAL evil double of the hero (think the alternate reality “Mirror Universe” versions of the crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek, or Spider-Man and his various evil clones). In the case of Captain America, the patriotic hero has faced, well, his own face, a number of times over the years, including most recently in the pages of Uncanny Avengers, where he faced off against the Hydra Supreme evil version of himself from the Secret Empire crossover event.In the early 1940s, superheroes were the dominant genre within the comic book industry, as comic books underwent a massive boom during World War II (making comic books was basically like printing money, so that one of the most valuable commodities became paper itself, as the war effort led to rationing, so companies would go out of their way to get a hold of paper, as I noted in a recent Comic Book Legends Revealed). Captain America Comics was one of the most popular comics published by Martin Goodman (Goodman’s group of comic book titles is most commonly referred to as Timely Comics at the time). However, by the end of the decade, sales had fallen and Captain America Comics didn’t make it to 1950.
Welcome to the 917th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our third legend, we look at how a coloring mistake messed around with a famous fight between Captain America and his evil doppelgänger by making both characters look identical in the comic.
One of the most common tropes in popular fiction is the idea of the hero fighting against, in effect, their opposite. Sometimes that just means a character that is just like the hero, only evil (think Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty, Optimus Prime and Megatron, Wolverine and Sabretooth, etc.), but often that means the LITERAL evil double of the hero (think the alternate reality “Mirror Universe” versions of the crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek, or Spider-Man and his various evil clones). In the case of Captain America, the patriotic hero has faced, well, his own face, a number of times over the years, including most recently in the pages of Uncanny Avengers, where he faced off against the Hydra Supreme evil version of himself from the Secret Empire crossover event.
In the early 1940s, superheroes were the dominant genre within the comic book industry, as comic books underwent a massive boom during World War II (making comic books was basically like printing money, so that one of the most valuable commodities became paper itself, as the war effort led to rationing, so companies would go out of their way to get a hold of paper, as I noted in a recent Comic Book Legends Revealed). Captain America Comics was one of the most popular comics published by Martin Goodman (Goodman’s group of comic book titles is most commonly referred to as Timely Comics at the time). However, by the end of the decade, sales had fallen and Captain America Comics didn’t make it to 1950.
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