#compare to Captain Marvel where 33 stories in would have taken me from December 1939 to March 1941

[daydreamerdrew]

generally speaking, I do take Golden Age comics seriously and engage with them in a way as to extrapolate about the characters’ personalities, and don’t just assume that 40s comics don’t have anything to say. so far I have not really been doing this with 40s Captain America comics, which I think is partially because I’ve already read later-published comics that portrayed the characters with different personalities during this time period, and established a relationship between them and these comics as in-universe fictional portrayals. and then it’s partially because so far it really hasn’t felt like there has been much to work with on this front. but I am still only in Captain America’s first year of publication, so it may be that Steve and Bucky come across as having more depth later on. it just feels like I’ve read more and gone further than I have, relative to their publication history, because they started out in an anthology book with multiple stories starring them per issue, rather than the usual situation of starting out with one story in an anthology book and gaining a starring book later on.