Marvel Comics: Captain America Says Tea Parties Are Dangerous and Racist

Publius Forum ^ | 2-9-10 | Warner Todd Huston

[SgtBob]

“Remember that the next time you think about dropping 5K to take the family to Disney World.”

How ‘bout droppin’ 5K in Vegas...

[The Wizard]

marvel better watch what is says or it be be in the wrong line

[Blind Eye Jones]

This is the USSR version of Captain America.

[ko_kyi]

According to DC, Hitler had a supernatural artifact called “The Spear of Destiny” that repelled superhumans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Lance#Vienna_Lance_.28Hofburg_spear.29

Not just a comic book thing (though I don't know how well it works on supers)

[a fool in paradise]

Can’t be Stan. They did that to the Superman reboot.

[a fool in paradise]

Walt ran the company but licensed the comic book rights out to other companies around the world. It just so happened that “the good duck artist (and writer)” Carl Barks briefly worked at Disney in animation. Disney didn’t publish comics until the 1990s.

[tanknetter]

I think that I read somewhere that it was Stan Lee that insisted .. in the filming of Spiderman that .. “Truth, Justice and the American way” be changed to .. “Truth, Justice and .. All That Stuff”.

As others have stated, that was in the last Superman movie. I don't agree with the criticism, because the "all that stuff" line was said by Perry White ... which is definitely IN character for him.

[tanknetter]

Ol’ Supe came here to Earth in 1938. He should have made mincemeat out of the Germans and the Japs, no atomic bomb needed. Wha’ hoppened, huh?

I have a DVD of the first Superman cartoons, the ones that were made and ran right around the time the US came into the war. They have a very nice one called the "Japateurs" where Lois and Clark are in Tokyo on a story and Superman keeps taking out chunks of the Japanese war industry.

Ok, sure, Superman COULD take out the Axis in a busy afternoon. But then what would happen with all the associated story lines? Like Wonder Woman for instance?

And from a sales perspective, if Superman takes out the Axis in late December 1941 what does DC do for storylines compelling enough to get kids to part with their hard earned allowance money for the next four years?

[RatsDawg]

I wish they would have just let Capt. America die, didn’t they kill him off a few years ago?

[the long march]

For a guy who saw what totalitarianism can do, who used to write and produce some mighty fine pro-US material, it is disappointing. Either old age or stupidity ( maybe both) seem to have over taken him.

[be-baw]

Here are comments by Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief, Joe Quesada, on the controversy:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24784

[Jack Hydrazine]

What’s needed is to have Capt. America show up at Tea Party rallies. Any one have the costume that can attend or even make one for a future attendee?

Oh yeah! We need Capt. America to show up at Palin rallies! Would that be cool or what? Make sure he gets great face time standing next to the Palinator shaking her hand! Go Cappy!