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“Captain America” was being developed by former cartoon -chairman Will Meugniot, his wife Jo, and storyboard artist Dave Simons. The series would have been set during World War II, as you can see from the same part of the completed project: One -minute promotional video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7vinvtfiw
The trailer depicts a version of the origin of Captain America, where Steve Rogers grab is becoming a muscular paragon thanks to the senior soldier serum. But is this Steve Rogers? According to most reports of the show, The real name of this American captain was Tommy Tompkins. “Steve Rogers” was an alias that gave him the army as a cover. A strange choice, but for sure!
The Promo Animation Style is similar to the 1999 cartoon “Spider-Man Unlimited” (which Saban and Meugniot worked on), with shading and proportions to suggest a comic that came to life. Appears in the trailer is Sidekick Bucky Cap and at least some of the Commandos Howling, along with their enemies of the Red Skull and Baron Wolfgang von Strucker.
One of the show’s authors would have been in Steve Englehart, the definitive comic writer “Captain America” Did President Richard Nixon’s cap fight in 1974. Englehart has been divided into public Summary of a chapter he wrote, “Skullhenge,” about the Skull Red trying to rearrange the formation of Stonehenge in England in huge Swastika.
The option to install “Captain America” in World War II makes sense. Cap was created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon in 1940, months before The United States went to the war. Kirby and Simon pulled an American flag wearing hero punching out the führer. The American captain has also struggled to be taken out of the location of war; In those cases, it can sometimes feel like another superhero. The best modern “Captain American” writers, like Englehart, be used to That discomfort to contrast a cap, the most ideal generation warrior, with the reality of America, but I wander.
But there is a problem with the location of World War II. According to Englehart, the show would not have been allowed to call the bad guys “Nazis.” That probably got up for a show for children. This is not without precedent. The 1990s Magneto “X-Men” cleaned up the survivor of the Holocaust, depicting it instead of only a generic refugee. The series had to sequence “X-Men ’97,” aimed at the same audience but is now older, remedying the origin of Magneto. Even “Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” (discovered in 2010) depicts the allies fighting Hydra and only Hydra during World War II.
There have been rumors over the years that this issue is what the show kept from starting the ground, but Comic historian Brian Cronin disagrees with that. Englehart and Cronin both attribute the cancellation of “Captain America” to money problems that Marvel was facing at the time; They filed for bankruptcy in 1996, experiencing a hard accident to earlier comic boom of the 90s. The effects of those financial battles are shown in the way this age of Marvel’s cartoons suddenly ended. By 1998, “X-Men” and “Spider-Man” were over and “Silver Surfer” and “Spider-Man Unlimited” ended after only 13 episodes. “American Captain” never got one Episode.
These days, Marvel fans can argue that canceled ’90s/early aughts cartoon they would rather have seen more: “Captain America” Meugniot or “Thor” by Mike Mignola.
