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Captain America Through The Years


So we all know that Chris Evans wasn't the first(or last) actor to play Captain America. There's been a handful of movies starring this character, even one from Turkey called 3 Dev Adam (3 giant men) AKA: Captain America and Santo vs. Spider-Man. I highly recommend you get your hands on a copy of this Turkish cinema (it's so bad, it's good). Caps uniform has changed over the decades too, In the 1979 TV movie he wore a motorcycle helmet and a tight fitting speedo like material suit. This was CBS's version of old Steve Rogers, which oddly got a sequel TV movie later that same year called Captain America II: Gone Too Soon. This time the blue Motorcycle helmet had metal wings attached to it and Captain America wore a blue mask (sort of resembling Zorro) around his eyes to hide his identity. The budgets were ultra-low on these movies and they had a cheese factor. That being said they were still sort of fun (at the time).

There was a serial series made in the 1940's which was loosely based on Captain America comics. Oddly this Captain's suit quite resembles the ones Chis Evans wears( Amped up quite a bit though). Then there's 1990's Captain America movie in which Matt Salinger wears a latex Suit(one of my favorites) to go out and try and put a stop to Red Skull's plans to launch a missile at the White House.

The Captain America which Chris Evan's portrays has many different looks, one thing stays the same though. He wears the headpiece to S.H.I.E.L.D (see what I did there?) his identity. He also wears a utility belt that is ever present and his suit always seems to be more heavily body armored (underneath). Yes I didn't forget they all have a shield too, but that's a whole different ball of wax (eww).

So my question is, which Captain America most resonates with YOU?

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