KK: Let’s say I’m a big fan of their energy and inventiveness. MA: Were you a big fan of the Golden Age Cap stories? Cap’s military backdrop is ideal for a war-time strip, and considering Superman, Batman and even Wonder Woman had their own strips, why hadn’t Cap? The fit was so perfect, I had to wonder why it hadn’t been thought of before. I believe the idea gelled while I was writing Captain America: Patriot. Karl Kesel: Well, considering my two biggest influences in comics are Jack Kirby- co-creator of Cap- and Milton Caniff- creator of Terry and the Pirates, the greatest adventure comic strip of all time- it was almost inevitable. Matt Adler: How did you come up with the idea to do a 1940s Captain America newspaper strip? I spoke with Karl to learn the genesis of the idea, what it's like working in this format, and what these stories will reveal to us about the Sentinel of Liberty. In this spirit, writer/artist Karl Kesel takes Marvel's greatest hero of the 1940s, Captain America, and imagines what if Cap's reach moved beyond comic books, and joined the pantheon of classic newspaper adventure strips? That's just what Karl has created, but with a twist rather than on ink-stained pages, the Captain America 1940s Newspaper Strip has debuted on Marvel's Digital Comics Unlimited. ![]() ![]() It was a time of great peril for the world, but also a Golden Age for the comics form, not only in the monthly comic books as we know them today, but also in your daily newspaper, an essential part of every household with a reach that dwarfed the periodicals of today. Travel back in time to the early 1940s, right before America entered World War II.
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