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Mar. 23rd, 2013 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eliyesIf you'd like some context for that post I made with all the pictures of Captain America in corsets, now you can have some! GayLeague has posted the relevant pages, as well as given some info on where to look for reprints and also some context for the story itself.
For example, it's a rare example of an American superhero fighting Nazis printed before the USA got involved in the war -- the issue came out April of 1941, more than half a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. (Remember, the Mayor of New York wound up giving the guys working on the Cap comic a police protection detail because they were being sent hate mail and death threats, menacing people were loitering by their building, and people were following them around -- all because they were angry at the anti-Nazi message in the Captain America comics.)
Can I just say how amazed I am that Steve and Bucky travelled from the States to Portugal by air, then by train from there through France to Germany, then to England (I presume a boat or another plane was involved at some point there) -- all in these disguises?! That's a pretty extensive undercover gig as a old bag in a corset, Steve!
For example, it's a rare example of an American superhero fighting Nazis printed before the USA got involved in the war -- the issue came out April of 1941, more than half a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. (Remember, the Mayor of New York wound up giving the guys working on the Cap comic a police protection detail because they were being sent hate mail and death threats, menacing people were loitering by their building, and people were following them around -- all because they were angry at the anti-Nazi message in the Captain America comics.)
Can I just say how amazed I am that Steve and Bucky travelled from the States to Portugal by air, then by train from there through France to Germany, then to England (I presume a boat or another plane was involved at some point there) -- all in these disguises?! That's a pretty extensive undercover gig as a old bag in a corset, Steve!