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This site is dedicated to Steve Rogers, who will remain - for me - the real Captain America, whether he wears his Super Soldier uniform, the Captain America uniform proper, the Nomad fighting togs... To me, Steve Rogers will always be the heart and soul of Captain America, however much I may enjoy James "Bucky" Barnes as the current Captain America.

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Star-Spangled Site News!

12-19-2011 - The previews for March 2012 are up!

12-15-2011 - Joe Simon, who created Captain America along with the legendary Jack Kirby, has passed away at age 98. Newsarama has a decent obit, better than anything I could manage.

11-21-2011 - The previews for February 2012 are up!

10-23-2011 - The previews for January 2012 are up!

09-27-2011 - The previews for December 2011 are up!

09-02-2011 - Captain America: The First Avenger DVD Information

CA DVD Leaks of the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Captain America: The First Avenger, is said to be coming on Oct. 25. It will be available as a 3D Limited Edition combo pack ($54.99 Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy) and a standard combo pack ($42.99), which includes Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy). Captain America: The First Avenger stars Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Stanley Tucci, Richard Armitage, Natalie Dormer, Neal McDonough and Samuel L. Jackson.

Special features include:

“The Assembly Begins”
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer.”
“Howling Commandos”
“Heightened Technology”
“The Transformation”
“Behind the Skull”
“Captain America’s Origins”
Deleted scenes
The Avengers animated series trailer
The second “Marvel One-Shot” short
Audio commentary from director Joe Johnston, cinematographer Shelly Johnson and editor Jeffrey Ford

08-17-2011 - Captain America: The First Avenger revenues to date:

Total Revenue To Date: $289,485,621
Opening Weekend: $65,058,524

08-17-2011 - The first picture from the currently-filming Avengers movie of Chris Evans wearing the modern Captain America uniform!

08-17-2011 - Added the Captain America-related November 2011 releases to the Previews area.

07-25-2011 - The Star-Spangled Site review of Captain America: The First Avenger is now up in he Editorial area! Also, the Previews section has the coming releases for October.

07-22-2011 - From all reviews, the CA movie seems to be an overwhelming success! Now, from San Diego Comic Con:


Cap Babe at the SDCC showing!	Captain America costume for the Avengers movie!

07-08-2011 - And we get closer and closer to the release of the Captain America movie! More stills are getting released, and as usual, the good folks at Spinoff have them available!

06-14-2011 - The previews for September 2011 are up!

05-27-2011 - CBR has a decent summary of the Marvel: Next Big Thing call, which focused on the upcoming Captain America series. Highlights included:

The opening scene is a funeral is for Peggy Carter, Sharon's great aunt, last shown during Captain America: Reborn in a special care facility for S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. "Having seen how big a character she is in the movie, I thought it would be really poignant," Brubaker said, noting it would help him back to the themes of Steve Rogers being a man out of time. The first arc will include Nick Fury, Dum-Dum Dugan, Sharon Carter and the Falcon and he will use as much as the Marvel Universe as is needed without overwhelming McNiven.
Brubaker said he hopes the movie brings more people to the character. He added that he's heard that his comics stories were referenced a lot in the shaping of the movie.
Brubaker said Steve Rogers has set the bar as Captain America. He said he enjoyed his time away from Cap and that once Bucky went on trial he knew he would come back. He said Rogers hoped Bucky being Cap would help him redeem himself. Brubaker said he doesn't know how definitive his run on Captain America will be because Steve Rogers hasn't been in about 50 issues. "I never wanted not to be writing Steve Rogers as long as I did, just some circumstances made me move some things around," Brubaker said, and that this is the first time he gets to "cut loose" with Steve Rogers as Captain America.
He said there is a lot to think about in a book called Captain America with the current state of the country. Having read Captain America since a child, Brubaker said he's always had a good view of who Steve Roger is. "He's not right wing or left wing, he looks at multiple sides of an issue because there are more than two normally," he said.
Brubaker said the new storyline will allow him to create a new arch-rival for Captain America. He said he wants to create villains that readers will embrace.
Asked about Steve's relationship with S.H.I.E.L.D., Brevoort noted there is no S.H.I.E.L.D. now. "Hopefully some day again there will be a S.H.I.E.L.D. again," Brubaker said.
Will Falcon be in the book? Brubaker said he's not in the first two issues but will be a recurring character.
A new villain will appear in the first issue, and Brubaker said the villain has a lot of ties to Cap's history in World War II and will be "another man out of time." Brubaker said HYDRA is part of the main bad guys in the first story arc, but they are a slightly different than seen before. "That's part of the mystery of the book," he said.
McNiven said it's important for Cap to be associated with his old costume. "I don't mess with it," he said, noting that "it's tough to draw all those scales."
Brubaker said
Brevoort said that a very obscure character from Marvel's Golden Age will appear in the first arc. He said it's a character that hasn't been seen in 68 years. "We're going to dust him off and make him relevant again," he said.

05-25-2011 - Marvel will be hosting a live blog session with Ed Brubaker, Steve McNiven, and Tom Brevoort on Friday, May 27 beginning at 12 p.m. ET.

05-18-2011 - New previews for August are now up!

04-13-2011 - The 1966 Captain America cartoon (amongst lots of other Marvel stuff) coming to Netflix in the fall!

04-27-2011 - An interview clip at CBR with Chris Evans.

04-13-2011 - New previews for July are now up!

04-04-20111 - It will come as no surprise to anyone that Steve Rogers will be returning to the uniform of Captain America, just in time for the release of the movie (7-22-11). CBR has the details!

03-23-2011 - Let me have an "Amen!"

03-22-2011 - The previews for June are up!

03-22-2011 - The CA movie trailer hits the theaters this Friday; if I can find one online it'll be right here... )

03-15-2011 - CBR has a preview of the prologue to the Fear Itself event, in which Steve Rogers plays a major part. Of course, I'm a sucker for anything that has Zemo in it...

03-04-2011 - In the "Good News, Bad News" department - Clearvision in the UK is selling DVD collections of several of the 1966 Marvel Super Heroes cartoon serials, including Captain America. The bad news is that they will only sell to people in the UK and Europe (and as a codicil, the DVDs are Region 2, so you'd have to have a DVD player that plays all regions - but they are pretty cheap, around $50).

But if you have friends in the UK and can read Region 2...

03-03-2011 - EW has an interview with Director Joe Johnson! Also, a pic of the movie version of the Red Skull:

02-21-2011 - Some articles on the forthcomong CA specials upcoming:

02-21-2011 - Tom Brevoort and Ed Brubaker in an excellent tag-team interview at Newsarama!

02-15-2011 - Previews for May are up! As you might expect, as we get closer to the release date of the movie, there are quite a few collections coming out, so budget carefully.

02-10-20111 - Given the inevitable success of Captain America: The First Avenger, our winghead is sure going to be in-demand as a costume this Halloween; given the lead time it takes to do a good costume, I've added a link for Captain America costume supplies (also as a permanent link in the Misc. area!).

02-06-20111 - The Superbowl had the first official trailer:

02-04-20111 - CBR has a look at the Captain America: The First Avenger movie poster!

02-02-20111 - Marvelous News has pics of the new Captain America toys heading for the shelves around May 2011, and coverage of the NYCC releases.

01-20-20111 - According to the Hollywood Reporter, Captain America: The First Avenger will debut its first official trailer during the Super Bowl.

01-19-2010 - A new interview with CA movie director over on Hero Complex!

01-18-2010 - Previews for April are up!

01-14-2010 - Some costume tweaks and commentary from Visionary.

01-13-2010 - Given that the upcoming Fear Itself starts with the new Red Skull, and in which Steve Rogers is a major player, I think pointing to the companion series of Fear Itself: The Home Front announcement is appropriate!

01-13-2010 - Newsarama has a pic of Chris Evans in the full CA uniform.

01-10-2010 - Here is an interview with the actor who portrays Bucky in the Cap flick!

01-10-2011 - Spinoff has pictures of the movie's Cosmic Cube and their art design for the Red Skull!

12-30-2010 - The review for Secret Avengers #8 is up!

12-29-2010 - In other news, actor Chris Evans, who plays Captain America in the new film, has his own blog!

12-29-2010 - Spinoff Online has a set report update for the Captain America film, with new set photos!

12-28-2010 - Updated the previews area with March releases - a whole bunch of stuff, as its the CA 70th anniversary!

12-17-2010 - Tom Brevoort tells us what is coming for March one-shots, celebrating the CA 70th Anniversary, in his T&A interview at CBR.

12-17-2010 - A preview of Secret Avengers #8 over at Newsarama, and on-sale next week.

12-04-2010 - Some of the Cap-based varient covers celebrating CA's 70th bday over at CBR. Because alternate covers are somehow... not passe.

11-26-2010 - A new look for the Star-Spangled Site, focusing mostly on Steve Rogers' history as Captain America. It breaks my heart to not be able to summon up any affection or respect for the BENDIS! Avengers family of titles, with the sole exception of Secret Avengers. A side-effect is me pretty much ignoring the other Avegers titles; I may continue to review issues of Secret Avengers and Captain America, but it probably won't become a regular feature.