I don't think so. "Captain" is the noun and "America" is the modifier. Oddly enough, the question of proper pluralization for Captain America has never come up, though it bloody well should have done by now.

Which Marvel hero's late '80's origin story depicts him sketching comic book characters for fun, then pretending to be lifting weights to please his comic book-hating father?

I'm not sure. One Marvel hero I know is an artist is Captain America; but Mark Gruenwald was writing his book in the late 80s and that doesn't sound like something he would do. That's more Geoff Johnsy. But I'll say Captain America.

Well, according to Samuel Stillman Greene, either way would be correct.

Not Captain America. The character's origin as told in the late '80's was brand new, not a re-telling or ret con of an older charcter's backstory.

Jack Monroe, aka Nomad, then? I seem to recall something about him being a doodler of super-heroes, as well; and he would have been a kid in the late 40s-early 50s, the era of Wertham's demogoguic attack on comic books.

Not Jack Monroe, at least as far as I recall.

And I wouldn't necessarily consider Harry O a Marvel "hero". Regardless of that, though, he's not the hero I referenced in my question.

::Shakes magic 8-ball:: All signs point to speedball.

Not Super-Pro, and not Speedball...although you both have the first letter correct.

Yeah, mine too. Well, given that I don't remember reading an origin like that, I'll go with another late 80s/early 90s hero I didn't pay that much attention to at the time...


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