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Captain America’s First Film Is Way More Important To Comic Book Movie History Than You Know

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Dick Purcell as Captain America in the 1944 Serial Film and Chris Evans Playing  Steve Rogers in the MCU's Winter Soldier Movie

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The first-ever Captain America movie marked a key moment in comic book history, preceding the MCU's Steve Rogers introduction by no less than 67 years. Most of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 33+ movies take place in the present day, with certain characters' origin stories taking place several years, or sometimes decades, before the Infinity Saga.

The Original Captain America Movie Was Released Before The End Of WW2 Captain America Is One Of The Earliest Superhero Movie Stars Before Marvel there was Timely, the leading publisher of pulp comics in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Timely introduced several superheroes in its Marvel Comics line, including the Human Torch, Namor the Submariner, and Captain America — three of the characters who led Timely to be fully rebranded into Marvel.

Directed by Elmer Clifton and John English, Republic's Captain America was a serial film starring Dick Purcell as the titular hero. Instead of the traditional Super Soldier Steve Rogers, Purcell's Captain America is District Attorney Grant Gardner, who investigates a deadly chemical called the "Purple Death". Captain America finds out that the evil Dr. Maldor a.k.a.

In fact, Republic's Captain America serial film released its final episode just a few months before D-Day, the Allies' most important operation that put the odds in their favor. That means Captain America was already making comic book movie history even before World War II had shown any hints of ending.

 

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