1. Publication
1.1. Published by Marvel Comics
1.2. Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
1.3. First appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (cover dated March 1941) from Timely Comics
1.4. Series
1.4.1. Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016 - Present)
1.4.2. Avengers VS (2016)
1.4.3. Deadpool (2012 - Present)
1.4.4. Art of Marvel Studios TPB Slipcase (2011 - Present)
1.4.5. Marvel Universe Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2011 - Present)
1.4.6. Avengers Vs. X-Men: Versus (2011 - 2012)
1.4.7. Amazing Spider-Man Annual (2012)
1.4.8. Uncanny Avengers (2012 - Present)
1.4.9. Captain America (2012 - Present)
1.4.10. New Avengers (2013 - Present)
2. History
2.1. Steven Grant Rogers
2.2. Steve Rogers was a fine arts student growing up during the Great Depression.
2.3. His alcoholic father died when Steve was a child, and his mother passed away from pneumonia after he graduated high school.
2.4. Because of the Super-Soldier Serum and "Vita-Ray" treatment, he is transformed and his strength, endurance, agility, speed, reflexes, durability, and healing are at the zenith of natural human potential
2.5. During a mission to the African nation of Wakanda, Cap befriended the nation’s ruler T’Chaka (Black Panther) and obtained a sample of the rare metal Vibranium. Experiments with this metal produced a indestructible Vibranium-steel alloy disc, which proved impossible to duplicate. The disc was given to Cap as his new shield.
3. Characters
3.1. The Winter Soldier (James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes)
3.1.1. Steve Rogers' childhood bestfriend
3.1.2. Bucky was Cap's sidekick and accompanied him on many adventures
3.1.3. Cap and Bucky hopped on an experimental drone plane in an attempt to disarm a bomb. The bomb detonated, dropping Cap in the North Atlantic, where he would later be found and thawed out by the Avengers. American forces never found Bucky's body, and he was presumed dead. Unbeknownst to the Americans, he was found and revived by Russian General Vasily Karpov.
3.2. Agent Peggy Carter
3.2.1. Peggy Carter was one of the most prominent agents of the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) during and after World War II.
3.2.2. After the end of Project Rebirth and Rogers' transformation into the only Super Soldier, Carter assisted him in becoming the world's first superhero - Captain America, and eventually fell in love with him.
3.3. Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)
3.3.1. The Red Skull was appointed head of Nazi terrorist activities with an additional large role in external espionage and sabotage. He was spectacularly successful, wreaking havoc throughout Europe in the early stages of World War II. The propaganda effect was so great that the United States government decided to counter it by creating their own equivalent using the recipient of the lost Operation Rebirth, Steve Rogers, Captain America.