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September 18, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
August 21, 2023	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 5, 2023. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that circulation numbers for early comic books featuring Captain America* remained close to a million copies per month, outstripping news magazines such as* Time?
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on December 20, 2023.
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List of incarnations of Captain America was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 8 September 2020 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Captain America. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 13:33, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Captain America co-creator Joe Simon chose Adolf Hitler as the character's nemesis because he was the "best villain of them all" and "hated by everyone in the free world"? Source: Dutter, Barry. "Simon Says..."
- ALT1: ... that Captain America co-creator Joe Simon created the superhero in part as a response to the American non-interventionism movement during World War II? Source: Wright, Bradford W. (2001). Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.
- ALT2: ... that circulation numbers for early comic books featuring Captain America remained close to a million copies per month, outstripping news magazines such as Time? Source: Daniels, Les (1991). Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics.
- ALT3: ... that in the 1950s, Captain America was briefly billed as "Captain America, Commie Smasher" in a commercially unsuccessful comic book series that was cancelled after three issues? Source: Wright, Bradford W. (2001). Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
- Reviewed: One Worldwide Plaza
- Comment: Plenty of material to mine for hooks, as one would imagine.

Improved to Good Article status by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:13, 22 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Captain America; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Morgan695: This article is very well written. I think the primary hook is not a good choice because it's not really about Captain America. Of all the alternative hooks, in my opinion ALT2 sounds the most interesting. FlairTale (talk) 23:51, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@FlairTale: QPQ has been completed. Morgan695 (talk) 16:44, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Morgan695: Updated, and checking Interesting hook for ALT2. FlairTale (talk) 02:14, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

False Hero's and Fake gods?[edit]

A case of, when they grew up - they (REFUSED to) put away their childish things? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.166.218 (talk) 18:50, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]