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Captain America clearly resonates with people today just as well as he did back in the 40's.


Do you really think so?

Maybe with some people. But in terms of sheer visibility, Cap was a major comic character for a period during WWII - maybe even up there with Superman for a time. That was the apex of his career popularity. He was Timely's number 1 hero.

He's never been Marvel's number 1 hero. I tend to think that in terms of merchandizing and overall popularity he's not in the top 5, maybe barely in the top 10. Spiderman, Wolverine, X-Men, FF, Hulk, perhaps even DareDevil all have had much greater pop culture visibility. In the 70s and 80s when I collected comics, CA was an avg., at best, selling title.