DCs Version Of Captain America Was Created By The Same Team

DC’s Version Of Captain America Was Created By The Same Team

While Marvel’s Captain America is definitely more popular, his creators at Marvel also created a similar character for DC Comics: Guardian

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DCs Version Of Captain America Was Created By The Same Team

In 1942, just 13 months after Simon and Kirby created Steve Rogers, Jim Harper was introduced to the DC Universe by the same creative team, known as the vigilante Guardian. Guardian operated in Metropolis’ Suicide Slums, protecting those who the law overlooked. Thanks to his use of of a bright uniform and an indestructible shield, it seemed clear that Simon and Kirby were trying to garner the same success they’d recently seen with Cap.

The similarities didn’t end with just the shield however. Guardian took in and trained up a group of young kids known as the Newsboy Legion, giving them a chance to better themselves and aid him in his mission for justice, just like Captain America did with Bucky Barnes. Not only that, but Jim Harper would also be brought into the present in a somewhat similar fashion to Captain America. While Rogers was frozen near the end of the war, to be thawed out years later by the Avengers in what was then the present, Harper was brought back to life in the present by grown-up members of the Newsboy Legion, who had become the heads of Project Cadmus, transferring his mind into a younger clone body that they had made for him.

From then on, Guardian would be pretty closely tied to Project Cadmus, working as their head of security, even after retcons were made to his origins post-Crisis on Infinite Earths. He would also form a relationship with the Daxamite Mon-El, who he mentored on how to become a hero. Unfortunately, not much has been done with Guardian in the grand scheme of DC Comics, and barely anything when compared to the meteoric rise of his Marvel counterpart.

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It should be noted, however, that the Guardian persona has made some more recent appearances in other media outside of the comics. Guardian was featured in episodes of of the animated Young Justice series along with Project Cadmus, as well as a pretty large role in the CW’s Supergirl series. Again, those are small drops in the bucket when compared to the huge impact Captain America has made (and still is making) on pop culture. Simon and Kirby tried their best, but it seems as though no other shield-slinger could beat their incredible first attempt.

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