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William Burnside, PhD, also known as the Captain America of the 1950s, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema in Captain America #153–156 (Sept.–Dec. 1972) as an explanation for the reappearance of Captain America and Bucky in 1953 in Young Men comics and their subsequent adventures in the 1950s. It established through retroactive continuity that the character was a completely different one from the original Captain America, who was firmly established in The Avengers #4 as disappearing near the end of World War II. Since this revelation, the character serves as a foil personality to his predecessor.
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| dbo:abstract | William Burnside, PhD, also known as the Captain America of the 1950s, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema in Captain America #153–156 (Sept.–Dec. 1972) as an explanation for the reappearance of Captain America and Bucky in 1953 in Young Men comics and their subsequent adventures in the 1950s. It established through retroactive continuity that the character was a completely different one from the original Captain America, who was firmly established in The Avengers #4 as disappearing near the end of World War II. Since this revelation, the character serves as a foil personality to his predecessor. In a later storyline, the character was given a new white costume and the title The Grand Director by Buscema and writers Roger McKenzie and Jim Shooter, in Captain America #232 (April 1979), and altered to be a villain and leader of a group of white supremacists that included a brainwashed Sharon Carter. The character was killed off at the end of that storyline and not used again until Captain America vol. 5 #42, returning to being active as the Captain America of the 1950s separate from the then-current Captain America, James "Bucky" Barnes. (en) Capitan America degli anni cinquanta (Captain America of the 1950s), il cui vero nome (rimasto sconosciuto per molti anni) è William Burnside, è un personaggio dei fumetti creato da Stan Lee (testi) e da John Romita Sr. e (disegni) nel 1953, pubblicato dall'Atlas Comics (divenuta in seguito Marvel Comics). In seguito ha cambiato identità diventando il Gran Direttore (Grand Director) dopo aver subito un lavaggio del cervello, su testi di e disegni di Sal Buscema, facendo una prima apparizione, in un Flashback nell'ombra, in Captain America (vol. 1) n. 231, per poi entrare in scena compiutamente in Captain America (vol. 1) n. 232. In realtà si trattò di un tentativo di rilancio, da parte della Atlas, di un personaggio che, con la fine del conflitto mondiale, perse popolarità. Sostituire i "cattivi" tedeschi con quelli comunisti non bastò a dare linfa alla testata, che infatti non trovò l'approvazione del pubblico e chiuse dopo pochi numeri. Nel 1964 Stan Lee recuperò il personaggio nella serie Avengers, raccontando di come Steve Rogers passò vent'anni in animazione sospesa tra i ghiacci del Polo Nord, trascurando le avventure pubblicate dalla Atlas negli anni cinquanta. Successivamente gli autori spiegarono il senso di quelle storie inventando un nuovo Capitan America tramite la retcon(retroactive continuity), spiegando che ad agire in quegli anni non fu il vero Steve Rogers (ibernato in quel periodo) ma un suo sostituto che assunse il nome e le sembianze del Capitano originale in sua memoria; avvenne la stessa cosa per il personaggio di Bucky (che anche in quel periodo accompagnava l'eroe a stelle e strisce) narrando di un "Bucky degli anni cinquanta" chiamato Jack Monroe che sostituì il defunto James Barnes. (it) |
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| dbp:alterEgo | William Burnside, PhD.; legally changed to Steven "Steve" Rogers (en) |
| dbp:caption | William Burnside, PhD, as he appeared prior to the surgical alterations on his feature, in Captain America# 153 .Art by Sal Buscema. (en) |
| dbp:characterName | William Burnside (en) |
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| dbp:debut | Captain America #153 . (en) |
| dbp:powers | : (en) Superhuman strength (en) As Captain America: (en) Access to various forms of advanced technology (en) Peak-level speed, agility, dexterity, reflexes, coordination, balance and endurance (en) Carries a bulletproof steel shield (en) Trained boxer (en) Use of an "atom-blaster" weapon (en) Wears a chain-mail costume (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | William Burnside, PhD, also known as the Captain America of the 1950s, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema in Captain America #153–156 (Sept.–Dec. 1972) as an explanation for the reappearance of Captain America and Bucky in 1953 in Young Men comics and their subsequent adventures in the 1950s. It established through retroactive continuity that the character was a completely different one from the original Captain America, who was firmly established in The Avengers #4 as disappearing near the end of World War II. Since this revelation, the character serves as a foil personality to his predecessor. (en) Capitan America degli anni cinquanta (Captain America of the 1950s), il cui vero nome (rimasto sconosciuto per molti anni) è William Burnside, è un personaggio dei fumetti creato da Stan Lee (testi) e da John Romita Sr. e (disegni) nel 1953, pubblicato dall'Atlas Comics (divenuta in seguito Marvel Comics). In seguito ha cambiato identità diventando il Gran Direttore (Grand Director) dopo aver subito un lavaggio del cervello, su testi di e disegni di Sal Buscema, facendo una prima apparizione, in un Flashback nell'ombra, in Captain America (vol. 1) n. 231, per poi entrare in scena compiutamente in Captain America (vol. 1) n. 232. (it) |
| rdfs:label | Gran Direttore (it) William Burnside (character) (en) |
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