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Captain America
First appearance : Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (born Hirsch and Kurtzberg) put Captain America on newsstands punching Hitler in March 1941 — nine months before the United States entered the war. Two Jewish kids from New York declared war on Nazism in four colors, and received threats for it.
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