![]() ![]() Were notified and the city’s mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, personally called Joe Simon, Captain America’s editor, to assure him of the city’s protection. ![]() While many wartime comic titles were fictional, some, like Guadalcanal Diary, were based on actual events, or the books written about the events. Soon the staff at Timely began receiving death threats in the mail and employees noticed groups of menacing-looking men gathered at the street corners near Timely’s Manhattan offices. Hitler was a marvelous foil a ranting maniac.” The adventures in Captain America irreverently turned Hitler into a caricature, infuriating the German American Bund, a powerful pro-Nazi organization in the country and particularly powerful in the Yorktown section of New York City, which had a large German immigrant and German-American population. Joe Simon, Captain America’s co-creator, later wrote in his autobiography The Comic Book Makers that “Captain America was the first major comic book hero to take a political stand. That month, in a comic book boldly named after him, Captain America dramatically leaped into action on the cover, delivering a knockout punch to Adolf Hitler’s jaw. With a cover date of March 1941, the comic book publisher Timely (later Marvel) attacked the Axis in a big way. 43, Superman was fighting it out in the sky with a pistol-packing German paratrooper, a Nazi swastika boldly seen on his brassard. Twelve issues later, on the cover of Action Comics No. 31 depicted Superman swooping down to save a prisoner from being shot by an unidentified military firing squad. In December 1940, the cover of Action Comics No. ![]()
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