A vintage lobby card for 1944 Republic Pictures serial Captain America.

A vintage lobby card for 1944 Republic Pictures serial Captain America.

Dick Purcell as Captain America in a promo pic for the 1944 Republic Pictures serial Captain America.

Dick Purcell as Captain America in a promo pic for the 1944 Republic Pictures serial Captain America.

A lobby card for the 1944 Republic serial Captain America.

A lobby card for the 1944 Republic serial Captain America.

Dick Purcell as the titular masked mensch in the fifteen-chapter Republic Pictures serial Captain America (1944).

Dolph Lundgren as vigilante par excellence Frank Castle in The Punisher (1989).

Dolph Lundgren as vigilante par excellence Frank Castle in The Punisher (1989).

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is armed and dangerous in 2012 with The Dark Knight Rises and Looper.

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner in The Avengers (2012).

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner in The Avengers (2012).

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in The Avengers (2012).

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in The Avengers (2012).

Sgt. Fury & His Howling Commandos

Sgt. Fury & His Howling Commandos

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Star Spangled War Stories #126 — May 1966 — “You Can’t Pin a Medal on a Gorilla!”

Star Spangled War Stories #126 — May 1966 — “You Can’t Pin a Medal on a Gorilla!”

Star Spangled War Stories #179

Star Spangled War Stories #179

G.I. Combat #252.

G.I. Combat #252.

Bad guys with some kind of laser gun thing in the first live-action Superman, a 15-part 1948 film serial from Columbia.

Bad guys with some kind of laser gun thing in the first live-action Superman, a 15-part 1948 film serial from Columbia.