Captain America was one of the most popular characters of Marvel Comics (then known as Timely) during the Golden Age of Comic Books prior to and during World War II. Captain America immediately became the most prominent and enduring of a wave of patriotically themed superheroes in American comic books . With his sidekick Bucky, they faced Nazis, Japanese and other threats to wartime America and the Allies.

Captain America was one of the most popular characters of Marvel Comics (then known as Timely) during the Golden Age of Comic Books prior to and during World War II. Captain America immediately became the most prominent and enduring of a wave of patriotically themed superheroes in American comic books . With his sidekick Bucky, they faced Nazis, Japanese and other threats to wartime America and the Allies.