Steve Rogers is a fictional Marvel Comics character created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, first appearing in Captain America Comics #1 in December 1940. He grew up as a poor, small young man in New York City who wanted to fight the Axis powers in World War II. After the army rejected him, he took part in Professor Erskine's Project Rebirth, received the Super-Soldier serum, and debuted as Captain America at Camp Lehigh, Virginia.

He is known for his star-spangled costume and near-indestructible shield, and for leading the Avengers after being frozen in ice and revived in modern times. He is loyal to the ideals of freedom rather than to any government, and he opposes bullies and Nazis. His closest