Why Captain America Is Perfect

To say that Captain America is an idealized version of a normal human being is an understatement- he is human perfection incarnate, his mind and body working as one well oiled machine, created to take down the evil Nazi empire, and that nefarious bonehead the Red Skull.

But have you ever had the nature of his perfection spelled out for you?

Leave it to Dorkly to do an amazingly succinct job of spelling out how Captain America is quite possibly "the most perfectly conceived character in the entire Marvel Universe", read these six little illustrated panels and you’ll probably come away unable to think of that star spangled superhero the same way ever again!

-Via Dorkly



Indeed, the first issue of Captain America comic came out in March 1941, right after Germany formed the Axis alliance. The wartime patriotism fueled the comic's sale - at its height it sold nearly 1 million copies a month (more than Time Magazine!).

Captain America Trivia for you: We're all familiar with his circular shield, but the Cap's first shield looks like in the picture above. It was changed after a rival publisher complained that the shield looked like a rip-off of the publisher's own character.
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