In one interview, he reminisced about one particular “climb-out fight.” “A climb-out fight,” he recalled, “is where you climb a building. 2 A second-generation Austrian immigrant of Jewish descent, “Jacob Kurtzburg” Kirby later changed his name to Jack Kirby because, as he put it, he “wanted to be an American.” His poverty-stricken neighborhood was filled with violence, much of which would later fill the pages of his comic books. Jack Kirby was born in 1917 in New York’s Lower East Side.
Their backgrounds shaped the superhero’s message. Jack Kirby and Joe Simon created Captain America in 1940. Race, technology, Great Depression ideals, and nationalism all come into play in Captain America Comics, often revealing the darker side of wartime patriotism. While Captain America reflects a nationwide surge in nationalism on the eve of war, there are subtler forces at work that shape the making and message of these comics.
The average boy-turned-superhero takes on Hitler in the first issue, leaving no question as to where his allegiance lies. Roosevelt responds, “What would you suggest, gentlemen? A character out of the comic books?” 1 Captain America made his first appearance just months before America’s entry into the Second World War. 1, two servicemen approach President Roosevelt with misgivings about the war.
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