Is there any superhero more synonymous with the US than Captain America? (Well, Superman, but I already did an entry on him.)
First debuting in 1941, he was created as a symbol of American resistance to the threat of Nazism and the Axis (the famous cover of his very first comic shows Captain America punching Hitler).
Sadly, after WWII, the popularity of superheroes faded and his comics were discontinued in 1950. They were briefly brought back in 1953, but they wouldn't be printed regularly until 1964. That's when the Captain got his trademark 'frozen in a block of ice for X years' story, that continues to be used to this day. (I wonder how he'd feel waking up in today's America? Then again, the concept of people who are supposed to be on the same side fighting one another isn't exactly foreign to him.)
First debuting in 1941, he was created as a symbol of American resistance to the threat of Nazism and the Axis (the famous cover of his very first comic shows Captain America punching Hitler).
Sadly, after WWII, the popularity of superheroes faded and his comics were discontinued in 1950. They were briefly brought back in 1953, but they wouldn't be printed regularly until 1964. That's when the Captain got his trademark 'frozen in a block of ice for X years' story, that continues to be used to this day. (I wonder how he'd feel waking up in today's America? Then again, the concept of people who are supposed to be on the same side fighting one another isn't exactly foreign to him.)