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Captain America Versus The Status Quo

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What's up with superheroes these days? When they're not renouncing their citizenship of America one minute then celebrating America the next, they're killing every man in Britain by chopping off their testicles or having fistfights with superheroic embodiments of Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Wikileaks.

Why can't we return to the good old days, when superheroes didn't feel the need to get so involved in politics, or challenge the status quo, especially not patriotic superheroes like Captain America. Take this classic story from 1970 by Stan Lee and Gene Colan in Captain America #130, you couldn't get more traditional than that pair.

Anyway, there's been a student riot on campus and Captain America got stuck in…

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Burn down the universities! Anyway, this all leads to Cap getting on his motorbike and doing an Easy Rider to 'find America'.

Maybe he should have walked. But this issue is also notable for Stan Lee giving Gene Colan a rather back handed compliment in the credits…

Captain America Versus The Status Quo

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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