Héroes anticomunistas: el caso del Capitán América "Commie smasher" y de Fighting American
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Universidad de Alcalá
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ISSN: 1579-2811
Year of publication: 2022
Issue Title: La Guerra Fría en el cómic
Issue: 21
Type: Article
More publications in: Tebeosfera: Cultura Gráfica
Abstract
This article analyses the run of Captain America published in the fifties, in the middle of the Cold War. This run, known as "Commie smasher", is characterized by maintaining the same scheme as the episodes published before World War II, substituting, in the role of the protagonist's enemies, the Nazis by communist agents from the Soviet space. The creation of the character of Fighting American is also studied as a response by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby to their non-inclusion in that new incarnation of Captain America by Atlas Comics. Notas: Héroes anticomunistas: el caso del Capitán América "Commie smasher" y de Fighting American
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