{"id":3671,"date":"2011-06-30T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/06\/30\/patriotic-potential-captain-americas-history-on-film-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:00:57","slug":"patriotic-potential-captain-americas-history-on-film-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/06\/30\/patriotic-potential-captain-americas-history-on-film-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic Potential: Captain America\u2019s History on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Realizing that most average (the non-super geek unlike those that frequent RevSF and this very blog) film goer has no idea that not only will the forthcoming, much hyped <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Captain America: The First Avenger<\/span> not be the first Cap movie but actually the fourth such attempt, I decided to compile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movingpicturesnetwork.com\/29552\/patriotic-potential-captain-america-history-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">a history of these largely forgotten films<\/a>. Luckily, the mainstream film site <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Moving Pictures<\/span> gladly hosted my endeavor. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">For his second big-screen incarnation in the 1973 Turkish film \u201c3 dev adam\u201d (\u201cThree Mighty Men\u201d), a shieldless Captain America (Aytekin Akkaya), wearing the hero\u2019s traditional garb, joins forces with Santo (of Mexican wrestling fame) to confront the villainous Spider-Man. Set in Istanbul, the story reveals little of this version\u2019s origin, powers or identity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movingpicturesnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/3DevAdam_167x254.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Beyond just discussing the films, I established some of the sociopolitical realities around Cap\u2019s original publication.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">Captain America proved very popular, with sales that rivaled Superman. But not everyone loved the comic. Numerous threatening phone calls and anti-Semitic hate mail attacked publisher Martin Goodman and the creative tandem, all three Jewish. After reporting the incidents, police responded surprisingly quickly. A few days following the first threats, a stunned Simon received a call from New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. He declared his love for the book and promised that the city would protect the creators and publisher.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movingpicturesnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CaptainAmericaComicsNo1_250x346.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These excerpts are just a drop in the proverbial bucket to the kinds of info in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movingpicturesnetwork.com\/29552\/patriotic-potential-captain-america-history-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">the piece<\/a>. Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movingpicturesnetwork.com\/29552\/patriotic-potential-captain-america-history-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">check it all out <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Moving Pictures<\/span><\/a>. Perhaps even the super geeky can learn a thing or two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/06\/30\/patriotic-potential-captain-americas-history-on-film\/\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Patriotic Potential: Captain America\u2019s History on Film<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realizing that most average (the non-super geek unlike those that frequent RevSF and this very blog) film goer has no idea that not only will the forthcoming, much hyped Captain America: The First Avenger not be the first Cap movie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/06\/30\/patriotic-potential-captain-americas-history-on-film-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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