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Adaptations of Captain America in other media
Created byJoe Simon
Jack Kirby
Original sourceComics published by Marvel Comics
First appearanceCaptain America Comics #1 (March 1941)
Print publications
Novel(s)Captain America: The Great Gold Steal (1968)
Captain America: Holocaust For Hire (1979)
Captain America: Liberty's Torch (1998)
The Death of Captain America (2014)
Captain America: Dark Design (2016)
Films and television
Film(s)Captain America (1944)
Captain America (1979)
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
Captain America (1990)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Television
show(s)		The Marvel Super Heroes (1966)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Theatrical presentations
Play(s)Marvel Universe Live!
Games
Video game(s)Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann (1987)
Spider-Man and Captain America in Doctor Doom's Revenge (1989)
Captain America and the Avengers (1991)
Captain America: Super Soldier (2011)

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

Film

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Main article: Captain America in film

Television

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1960s

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Captain America, as he appeared in the 1966 animated television series The Marvel Super Heroes.
Peter Fonda in 2009 on a ″Captain America″ style chopper

1980s

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1990s

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  • Captain America appears in X-Men: The Animated Series, voiced by Lawrence Bayne.[1][3] This version previously worked with Wolverine to rescue a scientist kidnapped by the Red Skull and the Nazis.
    • An alternate version of Captain America appeared in the episode "One Man's Worth". In a timeline in which Charles Xavier was murdered before founding the X-Men, Captain America is the leader of a task force of superhuman mutant hunters fighting a war against Magneto's Mutant Resistance.
  • Captain America appears in Spider-Man (1994), voiced by David Hayter.[1][4] This version was trapped in a dimensional machine alongside the Red Skull during the end of World War II, before being freed in the present day.
  • Captain America makes non-speaking cameo appearances in Fantastic Four.
  • Captain America appears in The Avengers: United They Stand episode "Command Decision", voiced by Dan Chameroy.[1]
  • In the 1990s, a planned Captain America animated series from Saban Entertainment to air on Fox Kids proposed that Captain America's true name was Tommy Tompkins, with "Steve Rogers" being a cover name assigned by the U.S. Army. The Red Skull would appear as the main antagonist. The series was cancelled in pre-production due to Marvel's bankruptcy.[5][6][7]

2000s

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  • Captain America appears in the X-Men: Evolution episode "Operation Rebirth". This version suffered cellular breakdown due to a defect in the super soldier serum, forcing him to be put into stasis until a cure can be found. Additionally, he previously worked with Wolverine to liberate a POW camp, where he saves a boy named Erik Lehnsherr, the future Magneto.
  • Captain America appears in The Super Hero Squad Show voiced by Tom Kenny.[8][4] This version is a member of the titular group who is heavily nostalgic for the 1930s and 1940s, and occasionally even forgets he is no longer in them.

2010s

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2020s

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  • Captain America appears in Lego Marvel Avengers: Climate Conundrum, voiced again by Michael Daingerfield.[4]
  • Captain America appears in Lego Marvel Avengers: Loki in Training, voiced again by Michael Daingerfield.[4]
  • Captain America appears in Lego Marvel Avengers: Time Twisted, voiced again by Michael Daingerfield.[4]
  • A mural graffiti of the Steve Rogers incarnation appears in the Disney Television Animation series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023). The Sam Wilson incarnation of the character makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the episode "Today, I Am a Woman".
  • Captain America appears in X-Men '97, voiced again by Josh Keaton.[4]
  • Captain America appears in Lego Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition, voiced again by Roger Craig Smith.[4]

Marvel Animation

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

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  • The Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Captain America briefly appears via stock footage in the pilot episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In November 2013, Jed Whedon, the co-creator of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., said that there were plans to reference events from Captain America: The Winter Soldier in the show.[15] In March 2014, a promotional logo for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. surfaced which features an image of Captain America's shield,[16] teasing the series of episodes dubbed "Uprising".[17]
  • In April 2016, ahead of the release of the Captain America: Civil War film and after the final season of Agent Carter, ABC aired an official Marvel documentary entitled Captain America: 75 Heroic Years, exploring Captain America's history and featuring Chris Evans, Stan Lee, Steve Engelhardt and more.[18]
  • The Sam Wilson incarnation of Captain America appears in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
  • Alternate universe variants of Steve Rogers / Captain America appear in What If...?, voiced by Josh Keaton.[4]

Video games

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Motion comics

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  • Captain America appears in the Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D. motion comic, voiced by Jeffrey Hedquist.[4]
  • Captain America appears in the Ultimate Hulk vs. Wolverine motion comic, voiced by Trevor Devall.[4]
  • Captain America appears in the Wolverine versus Sabretooth motion comic, voiced again by Trevor Devall.[4]
  • Captain America appears in the Wolverine: Weapon X motion comic, voiced by Clay St. Thomas.[4]

Novels

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Captain America 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.[34] This novel presented a different version of Captain America.[35] The novel adds a further element to the Super-Soldier process wherein Rogers' bones are plated with stainless steel. The character later appears in Captain America: Holocaust For Hire by Joseph Silva published by Pocket Books in 1979[36] and Captain America: Liberty's Torch by Tony Isabella and Bob Ingersoll published in 1998, in which the hero is put on trial for the imagined crimes of America by a hostile militia group.[37]

Live performances

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Fine arts

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In July 2016, Marvel and Disney announced that they would be unveiling a 13-foot-tall, one ton bronze statue of Captain America at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. The statue, designed by artists at Marvel and Comicave Studios, would tour the United States before its destination in Brooklyn, the character's hometown in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The statue had a dedication ceremony at Brooklyn's Prospect Park on August 10, 2016, stayed there for two weeks before going to Barclays Center for a month, and has since been on display at a Bed Bath & Beyond complex at Industry City - it does not yet have a permanent home.[42]

Starting with the Pop Art period and on a continuing basis, since the 1960s the character of Captain America has been "appropriated" by multiple visual artists and incorporated into contemporary artwork, most notably by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Dulce Pinzon, Mr. Brainwash, and others.[43][44][45][46][47][48]

Intellectual property rights

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Marvel Comics has held several trademark registrations for the name "Captain America" as well as the distinctive logos used on the comic book series and in the associated merchandising. An application was filed on August 10, 1967, for use in comic books and magazines and a registration was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on August 13, 1968.[49] Marvel's parent company, Disney, received a design patent on Captain America's shield in 2018.[50][51]

Infringement case

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The Scottish Indie rock band Eugenius was formerly known as Captain America and released the Wow (1991) and Flame On (1992) eps under that name. The threat of legal action by Marvel Comics made the band change its name.[52][53][54]

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