Captain America

Today I got to view the first-ever Captain America comic, or at least the micro-fiche version. Our library had the entire comic series on loan from Stanford, so during my lunch break, I took advantage of our fiche readers (fiche is like micro-film, but one sheet instead of a reel). Sadly, our readers are only in black and white while the fiches were actually in color, so the images were only awesome instead of incredibly awesome.

I scanned a couple images from the book, but in an effort to adhere to copyright usage guidelines, I limited my reproduction to just the cover and an ad, and will only post the ad. (I am using the wikipedia fair use rules as a guideline and basically only posting one panel from the issue.)

Bottom of Issue 1, page 2

It is worth noting that this deputed in 1941, hence the request to join the "Sentinels of Liberty" and do your patriotic duty of searching for evil spies. Cool, huh?