This November, the heroes of Marvel are saving the day — or at least, they’re saving yesterday. Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, some of Marvel’s greatest heroes are headed into the past to stop American history from being rewritten as they travel to the start of the American Revolution to join forces with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams to safeguard America’s legacy in the five-issue limited series 1776 from writer J. Michael Straczynski and artists Ron Lim and Sean Damien Hill. Now, ComicBook has an exclusive look at David Nakayama’s special foil variant cover for 1776 #1 and it’s one that honors a different legacy: Jack Kirby’s take on a Revolutionary era of Captain America from Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles, released in 1976 for America’s Bicentennial.
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Nakayama’s cover pays homage to the iconic Kirby cover, bringing back Captain America’s American Revolution suit that features a circle of stars on the chest and striping at the waist as well as the tri-corner hat with the iconic “A” front and center. Also featured is the shield that also closely matches Kirby’s original. It’s a bright, fresh take on the iconic Revolutionary look, this time with Captain America leaping into action. You can check it out for yourself below.
What is 1776 About?
According to Marvel, Captain America and his squad of Marvel heroes will leap into action after a mysterious force seeks to tamper with perhaps the most sacred thing of all, the threads of history. The heroes take up the mission to safeguard the founding of the United States of America with the fate of the entire nation — and their own existence — hanging in the balance. At the dawn of the American Revolution, the heroes will have to navigate the waters of the past to ensure the future remains untarnished.
“One of the (many) things that I like about the Marvel Universe is that it takes place in the real world, our world,” Straczynski told Marvel. “It’s New York or Chicago, not some imaginary location. This also applies to our history, and the opportunity to view the events of 1776 through the lens of our characters, and to better understand the meaning of those events, and the sacrifices involved, was way too good to pass up. At a time when so much of American discourse has become fictionalized, it is a good time to look back and see where this began, and what it still means today.”
Part of a Legacy of Honoring America’s Past
In addition to this new foil variant cover honoring an iconic Kirby work, part of what makes 1776 on the whole an interesting series is that it’s part of a larger legacy of Marvel’s honoring America’s history. In 1976, Marvel released Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles, which saw Captain America on what is essentially a tour through America’s history, experiencing first-hand various points in the nation’s history as well as realizing that what truly makes America great: it’s people. With the United States coming up on another landmark birthday, sending the heroes back to the beginning where they, too will have to fight for the future of the American experiment offers an interesting new way not only for the characters to experience history, but for readers to engage as well.
1776 #1 goes on sale November 12th.
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