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Captain America

Captain America

FACTRLE REAL NAME Steve Rogers OCCUPATtON Adventurer BASE

Brooklyn. New York: Stark Tower CAvengers Tower"). Manhattan, New York

HEIOHT ó ft 2 m WEIGHT 240 IbS EYES Bkie HAIR Blond

In the late 1930s, with the threat of worid war looming in Europo, the American high command embarkcd upon a program to create the perfoct soldier. Project: Rebirth, spearheaded by Dr. Abraham Erskine, was intended to create a battalion of supremo fighting men, stronger and morę resilient tlian normal soldiers, expertly trained and equipped a bulwark against Nazi aggression.Tlic first test subject for Erskines revolutionary Super-Soldier Serum was a young, would-be artist natned Steve Rogers, who had attempted to enlist, but had been turned away, classified 4-F, because of his physical frailty.    '

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FIRST APPEARANCE

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Subjcctcd to Erskines process, Rogers’body virtually doublcd in sizc, as millions of healthy cells wen? creatcd almost instantaneousk. His phvsique was acceleratcd to the pmnacle of human perfection, all wcakncss and dcficiency drained out of it

Howeeer the sccrct test area had been infikrated by Nazi sympathizers. who siew Dr. Erskine, the only person who knew how the process worked. Although Rogers quickly e.iptured the saboteurs, ir was elear that there would be no battalion of super-soldicrs now— Stcve Rogers would be the only one.

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Equipped with a virtually unbreakable red, whitc and blue shield, the product of a metallurgical accidcm, and trained in combat. taetics, espionage. and the fighting arts, Rogers was reehristened Captain America. Clad in a striking star-spangled uniform, he bccame a symbol for the US fighting forccs and a dread nemesis of the A.\is powers.

In his many battles against Nazi aggression, Captain Amerua wasjoined by a sidckick, the worldly James “Bucky" Barnes, who had discovcred the sccrct of Rogers’ truć identity.

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