Captain America

Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated comic book anthologies of the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as explorations of the relationship between power and responsibility, as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness, as meditations on the pain of adolescence and the fluid nature of identity, as examinations of the meaning, and limits, of patriotism, as ironic juxtapositions of the cosmic and the quotidian, as resources for the understanding of political and social history, and as high watermarks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning. For the first time,...