I’m not an American, but I couldn’t miss the opportunity to draw my goat!!!

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The story of Captain America is a simple one. A group of American scientists create a "Super-Soldier Serum" in anticipation of the USA joining the second World War raging in Europe. The first test subject is Private Steve Rogers, a patriotic but sickly young man who is given enhanced strength, speed and intelligence by the Serum. But before more serum can be made, a Nazi spy kills the only scientist who knew the entire formula, leaving Steve the sole beneficiary of the project. Steve is given the identity of Captain America, and acts as a spy-hunter and crime-buster alongside his young pal Bucky Barnes.

Most of Cap's adventures published before his comeback in The Avengers #3 are nebulously canon. Many of the contradict current Marvel canon, and modern comics have heavily implied that many Golden Age comics were in-universe propaganda loosely based on the real exploits of heroes in that era. Thus we've decided to publish this respect thread separately from the Captain America Thread.

This thread was a collaboration with u/kalebsantos

Warning: These 1940s comics can get really, really racist with the depiction of non-white characters.

Sources:

• Captain America Comics
• All-Winners Comics (1941)
• Young Allies Comics (1941)
• USA Comics
• All-Select Comics

Strength- Unarmed

Striking

• One-shots humans - Multiple
  • Punches one man into another, knocking both out - Captain America Comics #1
  • Lays out a 7-foot tall muscular man - Captain America Comics #10
• Sends humans flying with his blows - Multiple
  • Uppercuts Killer Kole, an undead ape-monster, over a table - Captain America Comics #17
• Bowls over groups of people - Multiple
• His punches are bone-crushing - Multiple
  • He punches with the force of a battering ram - Captain America Comics #6
• Knocks over or destroys objects by punching men into them - Multiple
  • Punches a villain across a room, knocking over several pieces of furniture - Captain America Comics #8
  • Punches Black Talon across a room and through a window, shaking the entire room and knocking over furniture - Captain America Comics #9
• Can knock out large animals - Multiple
  • Crushes the head of a giant snake with one punch, killing it - Captain America Comics #20
• Kicks a table into the air - Captain America Comics #1
• Shatters the Red Skull's mask - Captain America Comics #1
  • [Limit] A steel mask lets a man no-sell Cap’s punch - Captain America Comics #35
• He’s capable of knocking around giants who’re physically unharmed by a machine gun and hand grenades, only dying to the grenade due to the sound it made - Captain America Comics #2
• Smashes through a door - Captain America Comics #3
• Knocks out a circus strongman in two punches - Captain America Comics #5
• Breaks Killer Kole’s grip with a punch, who can bend steel bars - Captain America Comics #17
• Cracks open the chestplate of a strength-amplifying mechanical suit - Captain America Comics #29
• One-shots one of the Vulture’s batmen, who have the strength of twenty men - All-Select Comics #1

Pushing

• Uses his shield like a crowbar to bend open steel bars - Multiple
• He and Bucky manage to shove a group of zombies off a pier. In groups these zombies could derail trains or push cars off bridges - All-Winners Comics #1
• Snaps the neck of a large dog - Captain America Comics #10
• Holds open a crocodile mouth and wrestles another - Captain America Comics #28
• Matches the strength of a man who can tear a seat out of an opera house floor - Captain America Comics #34
• When both were strapped to rolling tables Cap pushed Bucky with his feet so forcefully he knocked out their guard - Captain America Comics Issue #47

Pulling

• Breaks ropes - Multiple
  • He breaks through steel-like “super silk” after it’s weakened by acid - Captain America Comics #6
• Breaks the chain of a chandelier and swings it like a flail - Captain America Comics #1
• “With the strength of a two-ton truck” he prevents a car from driving away, bending a light pole in the process - Captain America Comics #2
• Overpowers a tiger and snaps its neck - Captain America Comics #5
• Bends open the bars of a guardhouse - Captain America Comics #25
• Chokes out a soldier with his thighs - All-Winners Comics #10
• Drags a panther off of Bucky that is ten times stronger than a normal panther - Captain America Comics #37
• Breaks the grip of Frankenstein’s monster, who can casually toss a bed with one arm - USA Comics #13
• Broke out of the grip of the mole men whose powerful hands are capable of digging under buildings causing them to collapse - All Select Comics #6

Lifting

• Can easily lift and carry grown men - Multiple
• Flips a large monster - Captain America Comics #2
• Lifts a boulder the size of his torso and holds it against a stream of acid - Captain America Comics #26
• Lifts a giant metal cage off of himself - Captain America Comics #37
• Swung a man around and used him like a human shield - Captain America Comics #45

Throwing

• Throws people long distances - Multiple
• Throws or swings men into others - Multiple
  • Throws a man across a room into another before he can attack Bucky - Captain America Comics #36
• Throws a dinosaur horn through a man’s chest - Captain America Comics #3
• Knocks over two men by throwing a large crate - Captain America Comics #6
• Grabs a man’s spear, pulls him off a ledge and swings him around - All-Winners Comics (1941) #4
• Boosts Bucky over a castle wall - All-Winners Comics (1941) #5
• Throws a bomb at a submarine a long distance away - Young Allies (1941) #5
• Throws a table across a room with one arm, shattering it on impact - Captain America Comics #32
• Throws leopards across a room - Captain America Comics #36
• Knocks a man unconscious by throwing a skull with his feet - Captain America Comics #40

Grip

• Snaps a dinosaur horn off a skeleton - Captain America Comics #3
• Catches a flying torpedo after deflecting it upwards with a shield throw - Captain America Comics #37
• Crushes a man’s hand to force him to drop a knife - Captain America Comics #39
• Hangs onto a branch while Bucky and another man hung off of his feet - All Select Comics #6

Swimming

• Propels himself upward in a room filling with water, smashing his head through the trap door in the roof - Captain America Comics #4
• Swims through riptides - Captain America Comics #22
• Swims out of a flooding room through its ceiling, against the flow of water - Captain America Comics #31
• Swims against a powerful current caused by a powerful channel filling the room he’s in with water - USA Comics #15

Other

• Appears to flip a man with just his shoulders - Captain America Comics #3
• Survives being hung from a noose by flexing the muscles in his neck to relieve pressure on his throat - Captain America Comics #20
• Climbs to the roof of a room by bracing his hands and feet against the walls - Captain America Comics #28
• [Limit] He’s no match for a giant gorilla - All-Select Comics #3

Strength- Shield

Striking

• Smashes through wooden doors - Multiple
  • Smashes through a roof - Captain America Comics #6
• One-shots people - Multiple
  • Punched out Hitler - Captain America Comics #27
• Knocks people into the air - Multiple
• Can damage stone surfaces - Multiple
• Knocks down groups of people - Multiple
• Knocks out gorillas - Multiple
  • Kills a giant earth worm, which is strong enough to flip over a truck - Captain America Comics #17
  • Knocks out giant snapping turtles - Captain America Comics #23
• Breaks metal weapons - Multiple
  • Shatters Turtle-Man’s shell, which no-sold gunfire from pistols and rifles - Captain America Comics #23
• Hits a man “with the force of a five ton meteor” - Captain America Comics #3
• Slams a man into a wall hard enough to crater it, knocking him out - Captain America Comics #9
• Punches through the cockpit of a plane - Captain America Comics #38

Throwing

• Knocks a flying villain out of the air - Captain America Comics #3
• Knocks men unconscious - Multiple
• Hits a man into the air - Captain America Comics #6
• Knocks down a group of men with one throw - Captain America Comics #9
• Cuts down a tree branch - Captain America Comics #23
• Hits a flying torpedo and deflects it upward - Captain America Comics #37

Speed

Combat Speed

• Can often attack enemies holding him at gunpoint before they can shoot - Multiple
  • Throws his shield at a gunman before he has time to shoot Cap in the back - Captain America Comics #23
• Dodges a punch while landing his own blow - Captain America Comics #1
• Twists to block a sword swung behind him - Captain America Comics #6
• He punches "with machine-gun speed" - Captain America Comics #6
• Rushes a villain too fast for him to dodge - Captain America Comics #8
• While pinned down by gunfire Cap throws his shield “with split second timing,” knocking down the gunmen - Captain America Comics #9
• With a scythe held to his throat, Cap disarms the man holding it before he can react - Captain America Comics #22
• Hits a lunging mongoose out of the air - Captain America Comics #33
• Rushes a man with a knife before he can swing - All-Select Comics #3
• Kicks a cobra before it can strike at a man - Captain America Comics #37
• Saw that someone was taking a gun out of their drawer and punched them before they could shoot - Captain America Comics #41

Reaction Time

• Often dodges thrown projectiles - Multiple
  • Dodges a knife thrown at him from shadows - Captain America Comics #9
• Catches thrown projectiles, including throwing back bombs before they can explode - Multiple
• He’s repeatedly able to block a camera that shoots poison needles the moment that it clicks - Captain America Comics #6
• After falling off a cliff, Cap grabs a branch before he reaches the bottom - Captain America Comics #11
• Dodges an arrow from the Red Skull - Captain America Comics #16
• Tracks a dart flying too fast for normal humans to see - USA Comics (1941) #9
• Raises his shield to block a handgun - All-Select Comics #1
• Avoids surprise gunfire - Captain America Comics #33
• Dodges a speeding car - Captain America Comics #36
• Reacts so quickly three different people with guns aimed at him and Bucky couldn’t shoot him fast enough - Captain America Comics #46
• When two people had guns aiming at him he and Bucky were able to drop to the floor a split second before the guns went off avoiding the bullet as it was coming - Captain America Comics #46

Movement Speed

• He's narrated as moving at the speed of light a handful of times - Multiple
• Blitzes enemies while moving as a blur - Multiple
• Can cross a room to intercept an attack on his allies or prevent an escape - Multiple
• Dives in front of gunmen before they can fire - Young Allies #1
• When a villain cuts the lights in a room, Cap enters from outside, grabs a jewel, and exits before the lights turn back on - Captain America Comics #8
• When held at gunpoint he raises his shield fast enough to block the shot - Captain America Comics #20
• Peels several hours worth of potatoes in seconds when he locks in - USA Comics (1941) #7
• Moves “with the speed of a bullet” to dodge the Red Skull’s knife - All-Select Comics #2
• When a villain is holding Cap at gunpoint at the top of a ladder he's climbing, Cap reaches the top and punches him before he cans shoot - USA Comics #15

Running

• Bucky compares himself racing Cap to “a breeze racing a cyclone” - Captain America Comics #13
• Catches up to a bus that had a head start - Captain America Comics #16
• A car can barely keep up with him and he catches up to a train - Young Allies (1941) #4
• Catches up with a sorcerer that kidnapped Bucky, despite the sorcerer having a head start of several hours - Captain America Comics #21
• Ran to General MacArthur’s headquarters so quickly the General was surprised to see him making it there in mere seconds - Captain America Comics #42

Swimming

• Swims faster than a shark - Captain America Comics #5
• He and Bucky leap off a boat and catch up to a fleeing U-Boat - Captain America Comics #31
• Swims thirty miles in two hours - Captain America Comics #31

Agility

• Leaps up to telephone wires and swings to launch into an enemy - Captain America Comics #2
• Vaults over a charging monster - Captain America Comics #4
• Flips over a moving truck across a street - All-Winners Comics (1941) #3
• After getting thrown by an elephant, he twists in the air so he lands on two enemies - Captain America Comics #5
• Leaps to grab a man swinging from a chandelier - Captain America Comics #11
• When falling from a great height into water, he spins so he dives in rather than hit it flatly - All-Winners Comics (1941) #5
• After Bucky falls from rafters, Cap swings on one and catches Bucky with his legs - All-Winners Comics (1941) #5
• With his arms pinned to a wall, Cap lifts his legs to grab the Red Skull - Captain America Comics #16
• When pushed off a high-diving board, he twists to land on a lower one and backflips up to the top - All-Winners Comics #12
• Swings on a rope from a plane through a window on a blimp - USA Comics #15

Durability

Blunt Force

• [Limit] Normal humans can stun or knock him out by hitting him in the head with a weapon - Album
  • He was only knocked out after an attack from The Thing in the Swamp who is strong enough to crumple a metal pipe in his hands - Captain America Comics #45
• Withstands a bear hug from a superhuman mook - Captain America Comics #1
  • Tanks a punch from a man with the strength of ten men who easily lifts a large stone statue - Captain America Comics #3
  • Withstands having a chair and table thrown at him by Killer Kole, a monster strong enough to bend steel bars - Captain America Comics #17
  • Gets hit by a villain who’s strong enough to throw a heavy safe - Captain America Comics #19
• Tanks having a wooden chair broken over his head - Captain America Comics #1
• Shrugs off having a movie set of a castle collapse on him - Captain America Comics #3
• Unharmed ramming his motorcycle through a castle gate, wrecking the bike in the process - Captain America Comics #10
• He’s fine after a tree falls over onto him - Captain America Comics #11
• Withstands a grenade collapsing a large stone all onto him - Captain America Comics #13
• Tanks getting hit in the face with a blackjack - Captain America Comics #14
• Gets constricted by a giant snake strong enough to smash through a thick stone wall with its death throes - Captain America Comics #20
• Shrugs off getting thrown into a wall hard enough to crack it - Captain America Comics #21
• Gets constricted by an octopus large enough to sink ships - Captain America Comics #24
• Gets slammed against a wall and bear-hugged by a giant ape - Captain America Comics #28
• Gets tackled down a flight of stairs - Captain America Comics #30
• Gets tackled into a wall by a panther that is ten times stronger than a normal panther - Captain America Comics #37

Falling

• Jumps from the third floor of a building and lands unharmed - Captain America Comics #16
• Falls a significant distance into a river, only being harmed because he lands on rocks - Captain America Comics #28
• Dived off a blimp into the sea so high the drop killed a man who did it first - USA Comics #15
• Survived a fall off a cliff and into water which killed another man - Captain America Comics #46

Piercing and Endurance

• Being hit in the head with spiked maces often knocks him out, but he wakes up uninjured - Multiple
  • Was only momentarily dazed after being hit in the head with a mace - Captain America Comics #42
• Shrugs off a large dog biting his wrist - Captain America Comics #10
• A vampire pokes his eyes with a wing-tip, leaving Cap stunned but unharmed - All-Winners Comics (1941) #5
• After spending an entire month shackled to a wall on a bread and water diet he’s no worse for wear - Captain America Comics #16
• Swims from England to Germany - Captain America Comics #19
• After getting mauled by a bengal tiger, he kills it and hikes for miles - Captain America Comics #20
• Endures getting strangled by a monster strong enough to cut through wooden planks with its fingernails - Captain America Comics #29
• He’s stunned when a bullet grazes his temple but recovers quickly - Captain America Comics #32

Heat and Electricity

• Rolls through a fire to smother it. It’s very painful but doesn’t keep him from fighting - Captain America Comics #19
• Withstands an intense electrical current long enough for Bucky to find how to shut it off - Captain America Comics #28
• Withstands his body (except for his head) being exposed to scalding steam for several minutes - All-Select Comics #2
• Takes a hit from Crimorto’s lightning which was powerful enough to damage a castle’s stone walls and would have totally destroyed it given enough time which it eventually did later in their fight - Captain America Comics #47

Explosive

• Unharmed by a dynamite explosion that blasts him down a long tunnel and out of a mine shaft - Captain America Comics #2
• Gets blasted back by an explosion that shook a city and is in pain but unharmed - Captain America Comics #3
• Gets knocked into the water by an explosion that engulfs a bridge - All-Winners Comics #1
• He’s at the helm of a boat filled with dynamite when it explodes; he’s left shaken but uninjured when due to being blown clear of the wreckage by the blast - Captain America Comics #5
• Cap is being held by a giant robotic idol when a grenade hits it and shatters the entire thing. Despite being so close Cap is only slightly stunned - Captain America Comics #14

Other

• [Limit] Gas guns can knock him out rather easily - Captain America Comics #10
• He withstands smoke inhalation longer than Bucky, then survived getting lynched long enough to escape - Captain America Comics #6
• Gets “arsnic sand” thrown in his eyes and recovers within minutes - Young Allies (1941) #4
• He’s very briefly exposed to a sorcerer’s Eyes of Doom, which quickly kill the sorcerer when he sees his own reflection - Captain America Comics #21

Intelligence

General Intelligence

• Fixes a car’s engine after Bucky sabotages it - Captain America Comics #8
• He and Bucky know Morse Code - All-Winners Comics (1941) #9
• Reverse-engineers a size-changing drug from an alien “atom world” - Captain America Comics #25
• Is a master of disgui- ok come one - USA Comics #14

Planning

• Somehow figured out fake Red Skull’s electric death touch without having seen it before and insulated his and Bucky’s gloves so they could hit him - Captain America Comics #3
• Figured out that Bucky’s camera had been booby-trapped, then figures out that the killer is his teacher based on a note left for them - Captain America Comics #6
• Sees an ambush coming and turns the tables - Captain America Comics #27
• Flexes his muscles to create slack in ropes when he’s tied up, letting him shoot a villain when he tries to puppeteer Cap - USA Comics (1941) #9
• Leads Frankenstein’s monster into quicksand to defeat it - USA Comics #13
• Stacks TnT inside a train tube so when an enemy train goes down it they’ll explode - Captain America Comics #42

Deduction

• Figures out that a flower is a disguised bomb - Captain America Comics #12
• Identifies the type of bullet that killed a man and is proven correct - Captain America Comics #18
• Tracks down a secret society based on the mark left by the hand of a member - Captain America Comics #18
• Detects a trap before him and Bucky walk into it - Captain America Comics #21
• Can tell that a man is drugged - Captain America Comics #28
• Deduced Monstroso’s plan from a jigsaw puzzle he left behind - All Winners Comics (1941) #14
• When Bucky was kidnapped he wrote Cap a coded letter which he was able to quickly crack - All Winners Comics (1941) #15
• When a wax figure disappears Cap discovers a fake wall behind it and he later explains how it works in more detail as well as the motivations of the criminals behind it - Captain America Comics #48
• After investigating the apartment of a woman who died in the street he discovered she was killed by a slow acting poison - Captain America Comics #48

Combat Intelligence

• Faced with a fleet of super-tanks, he and Bucky commandeer one and use it to destroy the others - Captain America Comics #2
• Pretends to be worse at fencing than he is to get a confession from his overconfident opponent - Captain America Comics #3
• Ducks under two crooks so they collide - Captain America Comics #4
• Uses one of his mask wings as a knife against sharks - Captain America Comics #5
• Instantly sees through a hypnotic illusion cast by a sorcerer - Captain America Comics #21

Escaping Traps

• When trapped in a room of fire jets he uses them to burn off his bindings - Captain America Comics #10
• Breaks a telephone wire to burn off his bindings - All-Winners Comics (1941) #6
• Survives being hung from a noose by flexing the muscles in his neck to relieve pressure on his throat - Captain America Comics #20
• Finds an exposed gear to jam a rock into, stopping a stone-grinder from killing him and Bucky - Captain America Comics #23
• When trapped in an iron lung, he uses his belt buckle to unscrew a hinge and escape - All-Select Comics #2
• Escaped a jail cell by hiding on the heavy moulding above the door and surprise attacking the guard once they entered - Captain America Comics #44
• Found a trap door on top of the burning totem pole he and Bucky were trapped on - USA Comics #16

Skill

Close Combat

• Bucky calls him “the most powerful fighter on Earth” - Captain America Comics #15
• He’s a skilled swordsman and disarms an actor fighting him - Captain America Comics #3
• Kills two sharks while submerged underwater - Captain America Comics #5
• Defeats Rozzo, who was a military commander in his home country - Captain America Comics #12
• Kills a bengal tiger - Captain America Comics #20
• Defeats Medusa in a bayonet duel - USA Comics (1941) #6
• Defeats a giant ape without his shield - Captain America Comics #28
• Without his shield Cap defeats an escaped convict armed with a deadly poison dart - Captain America Comics #30
• He knows Judo and uses it to disarm Red Skull’s knife and break his wrist - Captain America Comics #37
• Easily dominates over the beast who just earlier murdered a Frenchman who was “no match” for him according to the narrator - Captain America Comics #41
• Him and Bucky fight several men armed with swords at once - USA Comics #14

Shield Throws

• Often bounces the shield between multiple enemies - Album
  • Unseats three horsemen with one throw - All-Winners Comics (1941) #6
• Knocks the knife out of a man’s hands - Captain America Comics #3
• Knocks a flying villain out of the air - Captain America Comics #3
• Hits a man before he can shoot Bucky - Captain America Comics #4
• Picks up a newspaper - All-Winners Comics (1941) #3
• Hits a man off a speeding motorcycle - Captain America Comics #10
• Intercepts a thrown knife - Captain America Comics #18
• Hits a dog as it leaps at Bucky - USA Comics (1941) #8
• Hits a flying torpedo and deflects it upward - Captain America Comics #37
• Trips a man running away - Captain America Comics #37

Other Ranged Accuracy

• He’s good at bowling - Captain America Comics #18
• He and Bucky have the highest scores at their camp rifle range - Captain America Comics #40
  • Shoots a grenade out of the air with a rifle - USA Comics (1941) #6
• Throws a skull with his feet, nailing a man in the head - Captain America Comics #40
• Hits the landing gear of a plane with a thrown spear while it was taking off - Captain America Comics #42

Stealth

• Stealth KOs a guard - Captain America Comics #42
• Hid behind a curtain at a party and behind a ledge at a populated swimming pool without being noticed - Captain America Comics #42
• Hid from the cops in a power plant - Captain America Comics #45

Super Soldier Serum

Enhanced Biology

• The serum grows millions of new cells within seconds of injection, forming muscle and brain tissue to make Steve larger and smarter - Captain America Comics #1
• Recovers from knockout smoke faster than expected - Captain America Comics #20
  • Lasts longer than Bucky does when a room’s air supply is cut off - Captain America Comics #31
• Medusa’s death stare knocks him out, but he recovers before its fight with Bucky ends. It’s revealed that Medusa used poison darts that nonetheless instantly killed normal humans - USA Comics (1941) #6

Senses

• Detects the lack of a sentry’s footsteps while asleep in an army camp, then immediately locates his corpse despite being hidden by shadows behind a bush - Captain America Comics #1
• Hears men in a mine shaft from the surface and can see in darkness like a cat - Captain America Comics #2
• When at home plate, he sees that a pitcher’s baseball has been replaced with a bomb - Captain America Comics #7
• Has a “sixth sense” that lets him avoid major injury from an ambush - All-Winners Comics (1941) #3
• Detects a strange smell in flowers that Bucky can’t. These flowers are later revealed to be lethally poisonous - Captain America Comics #14
• Hears a muffled explosion when no one else does - USA Comics (1941) #9
• He can perceive objects moving too fast for normal humans to see - USA Comics (1941) #9

Continued

Here’s to acknowledging our faults, mending our mistakes, and striving to give Everyone their slice of The Dream 🫡

a crime against america

Love all of them, but if I had to pick just two favorites, the 1979 Diebenwald Motorcycle issue, and the 1978 If America Should Die issue would be my picks. Very happy to have them in the collection!

this is the majority of my collection minus a few pieces and a stack of comics in another room. My favorite character gets pride of place in my bedroom thanks to my wife allowing it.

Art by Alex Ross

Both versions cause I couldn't decide which one I liked better. Happy 4th of July to all Americans

Art by @eanthonyart

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