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Since the 1940's, the comic book character Captain America has been presented in a variety of other media, including serial films, feature films, animations, video games, and even as a stage play.

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Animation

Captain America has appeared in the following animated TV series:

  • The Marvel Superheroes (1966): Captain America was one of the five featured superheroes, starring one "Captain America" segment a week.
  • Spider-Man (1981): Guest-starred in one episode, "The Capture of Captain America". He was voiced by George DiCenzo.
  • Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981): He appeared in the following Spider-Man series in two episodes, "7 Little Superheroes" and "Pawns of the Kingpin", where he was again voiced was by DiCenzo.
  • X-Men (1992): Captain America appears in one episode, "Old Soldiers". He is an American agent, sent along with Canadian Wolverine, to rescue a scientist kidnapped by the Red Skull and the Nazis. He is present in the episode only in flashbacks of Wolverine's. Captain America is voiced by Lawrence Bayne who probably sounded familiar because he also provided voices for Cable and Erik the Red in the same series. The Red Skull was voiced by Cedric Smith who also voiced Professor X throughout the series.
  • Spider-Man (1994): Cap made a few appearances, where he was voiced by David Hayter:
    • He first appears in "The Cat" (Season #4 Ep 43) with a mere cameo when Peter Parker is narrating a flashback scene with Captain America.
    • He appears in the last three episodes of the "Six Forgotten Warriors" saga. The third provides a flashback scene explaining Cap's disappearance after World War II: he and the Red Skull were trapped in a dimensional machine for the last 50 years. In the last two episodes Cap is released from the machine (with the Red Skull), and in the final installment he and the Red Skull fight and are, in the end, trapped in the machine once again.
    • In the "Secret Wars" three-parter, Captain America was one of the heroes Spider-Man selected to lead against the villains, choosing him due to his past experience with the Red Skull. At the end of the arc, the Beyonder sent back every hero (except for Spider-Man) back to Earth, and Captain America became trapped with the Red Skull again.
  • The Avengers: United They Stand (1999): Cap appears in one episode, "Command Decision". The story involves the Masters of Evil and a flashback to Captain America defeating Baron Zemo. He was voiced by Dan Chameroy.
  • X-Men: Evolution (2000): Captain America (along with Nick Fury) appears one episode, "Operation Rebirth" . Here Rogers gets his abilities from a machine as part of "Project: Rebirth". During World War II, he participates in a joint operation with Canadian soldier Logan to liberate a concentration camp, where one prisoner is a boy named Erik Lehnsherr, the future Magneto. After the attack, Rogers learns the "Rebirth" process is killing him, so he and Logan destroy the machine, and Rogers is cryogenically frozen until a cure can be found. During the episode, Magneto uses a variation of "Rebirth" to save his life, despite the intervention of Wolverine, Rogue and Nightcrawler, but lets them go in memory of the time Wolverine saved his life at the camp. At the conclusion of the episode, Wolverine visits the still-frozen Captain America, and reminisces about how they made a great team at the time.
  • Captain America appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Tapping a Hero." In the "Superheroes Tonight" segment, Captain America ends up in hot water with the ACLU after bullets shot from the Red Skull's gun deflected off his shield and struck many pedestrians.

Television

Reb Brown as Captain America (1979, TV).
Reb Brown as Captain America (1979, TV).
  • Captain America appears in two 1970s live-action television movies: Captain America and Captain America II: Death Too Soon, starring Reb Brown. The character differs significantly from the comics, in both his origin and his operations. For instance, Rogers is a character in contemporary times whose father was a 1940s government agent whose very patriotic attitude earned him the nickname Captain America. Rogers, an artist, was inspired by this story to sketch a superhero. After an accident he received an experimental chemical called the FLAG (Full Latent Ability Gain) formula (at one point referred to as a "super-steroid") which enhances his body with heightened strength and reflexes, and a costume based on his drawing. He also makes significant use of a specialized van, and of a modified motorcycle. The bike has a detachable round windshield with the concentric circles, with the white sections being transparent, and star which he uses as his shield when he goes on foot. At the end of the first movie, Rogers briefly appears in a redesigned costume that bears a stronger resemblance to the one seen in the comics, which he wears in the sequel.
  • Captain America also appeared in a 1980 Public Service Announcement on energy conservation, in which he battled the Thermal Thief, the Wattage Waster and the Cold Air Crook.
  • Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report has in his studio one of the two metal Captain America shields commissioned by Marvel as tribute after the death of Captain America during the Civil War.

Films

Matt Salinger playing Captain America in the 1991 movie.
Matt Salinger playing Captain America in the 1991 movie.

Captain America was the first Marvel Comics character adapted into another medium with the release of the 1944 movie serial Captain America.Daniels, p. 53 The serial portrays the hero as a district attorney named Grant Gardner and removes many important elements of the character, such as his shield and his sidekick Bucky.

3 Dev Adam (translated as Three Mighty Men but also known as Captain America and Santo vs. Spider-Man) is a 1973 Turkish film featuring the characters of Captain America (sans shield) and Mexican wrestling superhero and serial star Santo (persona only) as heroes from the Americas called to Turkey to take on a bushy eyebrowed green serial killing Spider-Man as the villain.

The 1990 direct-to-video film Captain America, starring Matt Salinger, co-produced with Yugoslavia. It depicts the hero's battle against the Red Skull, who in the film is an Italian fascist rather than a German Nazi.

Captain America appears in the animated films Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2, both released direct to video in 2006 and featuring an Ultimate Marvel version of Captain America. He was voiced by Justin Gross.

Future film

Production

In April 1997, Marvel Studios was in negotiations with Mark Gordon and Gary Levinsohn to produce Captain America. In addition Larry Wilson and Leslie Bohem were set to write a script. In May 2000, Marvel teamed with Artisan Entertainment to help finance the film. However, a lawsuit arose between Marvel and Joe Simon over the ownership of Captain America copyrights, disrupting the development process of the film. The lawsuit was eventually settled in September 2003. In April 2005, Paramount Pictures agreed to distribute the film, as well as co-finance Captain America with Marvel. In addition Marvel Studios received $525 million from Merrill Lynch for financing on ten productions, one of them being Captain America. In February 2006, Avi Arad hoped to have a summer 2008 theatrical release date Jon Favreau approached Avi Arad on directing the film as a comedy, but Favreau eventually settled on Iron Man. In July 2006, David Self was hired to write the script, Paramount and Marvel were in search of a director. Captain America was put on hold during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. However, in January 2008, Marvel Entertainment reached an interim comprehensive agreement with the Writers Guild of America that would put writers immediately back to work on various projects that were under the company's development.

Promotion

In April 2007, Sega signed to produce a video game. Originally hoping for a summer 2008 release, they are now willing to wait longer for Captain America to get made.

Sequel

In August 2006, Zak Penn was hired to write the script for an Avengers film.Template:Cite news Iron Man director Jon Favreau said he would like to direct the film, which would be a crossover to fictional universes in other upcoming Marvel films such as Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk. He also explained that Marvel has told him that "they're pretty clear on wanting to do it with the actors who’ve established the roles or to not do it at all. I think it’s a good idea if you use the characters established in the other franchises that then come together for an event."

Video games

Captain America appears in more than one video games:

Captain America has a cameo in some games:

Novels

Cap was the subject of Marvel's second foray into prose book licensing: The Great Gold Steal by Ted White in 1968, following an Avengers novel in 1967. This novel presented a different version of Captain America[1]. The novel adds a further element to the Super-Soldier process wherein Rogers' bones are plated with stainless steel. Captain America also appears in several later novels, including 1998s Captain America: Liberty's Torch by Tony Isabella and Bob Ingersoll, in which the hero is put on trial for the imagined crimes of America by a hostile militia group.

Music

The singer Jimmy Buffet published a song titled Captain America, it was indeed about Captain America. In 1985, a musical about Captain America was announced for Broadway. The piece, written by Mel Mandel and Norman Sachs, never actually premiered, although recordings of the score have surfaced.

A song by the classic rock band The Kinks, "Catch Me Now I'm Falling," uses Captain America in the song as the embodiment of the band's views on the government and the economic hardships in the 1970's.

In 2007, independent artist Will Kouf released a story-based album or rock opera, based around the origin of Captain America.

In 2000, the progressive band moe. released a live version of their song "Captain America" on the album "L". They followed the release later that year with a studio cut of the song on the "Dither" album.

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