Changes

What came out in in December, 1940 was the first issue of ''Captain America'', whose shield-bearing character made no bones about which side he was on, leaping into the scene to strike Hitler in the face.  This first issue sold over a million copies, with many more to come.  The one major change which had to take place within the first few issues was the design of the shield.  Originally triangular, they discovered that it bore too close an appearance to an earlier character from a rival magazine<ref>http://www.comics.org/issue/609/cover/4/</ref>, so the shape became round.  This proved beneficial to the creators, who now felt that Captain America had a new weapon, one which could be flung at an enemy to great effect, and return like a boomerang.

What came out in in December, 1940 was the first issue of ''Captain America'', whose shield-bearing character made no bones about which side he was on, leaping into the scene to strike Hitler in the face.  This first issue sold over a million copies, with many more to come.  The one major change which had to take place within the first few issues was the design of the shield.  Originally triangular, they discovered that it bore too close an appearance to an earlier character from a rival magazine<ref>http://www.comics.org/issue/609/cover/4/</ref>, so the shape became round.  This proved beneficial to the creators, who now felt that Captain America had a new weapon, one which could be flung at an enemy to great effect, and return like a boomerang.

Since the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] Captain America is often used as [[liberal]] [[Antiamericanism|antiamerican]] propaganda. In the new comics he supports the [[Anti-war|Anti-war movement]].<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/206451/captain-america-traitor/michael-medved</ref>

Since the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] Captain America is often used as [[liberal]] [[Antiamericanism|anti-American]] propaganda. In the new comics he supports the [[Anti-war|Anti-war movement]].<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/206451/captain-america-traitor/michael-medved</ref> This eventually came to a head on May 25, 2016 when the debut issue of a new comic arc, ''Steve Rogers: Captain America'' revealed that Captain America had in fact been an agent of the Nazi branch HYDRA since his youth, with the writer of the arc, Nick Spencer, making clear that he intends to keep Captain America a HYDRA agent, with the next issue explaining how he came to join them.<ref>http://time.com/4347224/captain-america-hydra-agent-marvel-tom-brevoort/</ref> This revelation received extremely negative reception from its readers, with several stating that it acted as a slight towards Captain America's creators, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (who were Jewish), as well as Chris Evans, the actor who played Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, being shocked and disapproving of the twist,<ref>http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Captain-America-revealed-as-a-secret-Nazi-in-new-comic-455305</ref> and it even going as far as to have Nick Spencer get a lot of death threats as a response to the issue's twist.<ref>http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/05/25/captain-america-writer-nick-spencer-gets-death-threats-on-social-media/</ref>

==Films==

==Films==