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\n\tThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has acquired a prized copy of\u00a0Captain America Comics<\/em>\u00a0No. 1, famous for its cover depicting the titular hero punching Adolf Hitler in the face, the museum announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n \n\tThe issue was published in December 1940, nearly a year before the United States entered World War II, and entered the museum\u2019s holdings courtesy of Riot Games cofounder Brandon Beck. Jack Kirby\u2014who, with Joe Simon, created a host of iconic Marvel superheroes\u2014was the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants and later served in the US Army during the war. <\/p>\n \n\tAccording to the museum, Kirby conceived the now-famous\u00a0Captain America<\/em>\u00a0cover as a not-so-veiled rebuke of the nation\u2019s isolationist stance amid the mounting Nazi threat. The effort proved influential: the widely circulated comic has been credited with helping raise public awareness in the United States of the escalating conflict in Europe.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis comic book holds enormous cultural and historical importance,\u201d Zachary Levine, director of the museum\u2019s Curatorial Affairs Division, said in a statement.<\/p>\n \n\tBeck also donated an original copy of\u00a0Captain America Comics<\/em>\u00a0No. 46, another landmark issue whose cover depicts the hero liberating a concentration camp\u2014among the earliest portrayals of such a site in American popular culture. Both comics are now undergoing assessment by the museum\u2019s conservation and research center and will be digitized for public access.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/us-holocaust-museum-acquires-rare-world-war-ii-captain-america-comics-1234775619\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-545691125.jpg?w=1024″] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has acquired a prized copy of\u00a0Captain America Comics\u00a0No. 1, famous for its cover depicting the titular hero punching Adolf Hitler in the face, the museum announced Tuesday. The issue was published in December 1940, nearly a year before the United States entered World War II, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1807692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}