Given this background it is no surprise that the Pentagon were intimately involved in helping to adapt Marvel comics into films. The first two issues were written by Brian Bendiss, who in 2016 visited CIA headquarters commenting, ‘so I’m completely filled with ideas and stories for the next 10 years.’ The Military and the Marvel Cinematic Universe This comic series was only available to military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was designed to maintain morale among the troops. More recently, from 2005 to 2010 Marvel also went into co-production with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service to produce the first volume of The New Avengers. Each month the comic told a loosely-fictionalised version of real events from 20 years earlier, helping rewrite popular perceptions of the Vietnam War. Meanwhile Jack Kirby and Joe Simon (the creators of Captain America) were members of the Writers War Board, a government-funded propaganda organisation devoted to the US war effort.įrom 1986 to 1993 Marvel Comics produced and sold The ‘Nam, a comic that was edited by a Vietnam veteran who came up with the idea for the series. It is no coincidence that Marvel legend Stan Lee served in US military intelligence during the war, helping to produce propaganda. The front cover featured Cap leaping into action, socking Hitler in the jaw. The first ever issue of Captain America came out in March 1941, months before the US joined the war. The Comics of Warĭuring World War 2 the US government produced ‘informational comics’ aimed at domestic and Allied audiences, while Marvel and DC started to produce comics aimed specifically at the military. Marvel is being used for military PR and recruitment propaganda, and Captain Marvel is merely the latest incarnation of a relationship that goes back decades. Its star Brie Larson heralded it as ‘the biggest feminist movie of all time’ but behind this glossy, progressive veneer lies a troubling connection. Captain Marvel opened this weekend to a monster box office haul of $153 million domestically and over $450 million worldwide.
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