Talk:Captain America (serial)

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BetacommandBot 06:12, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

The Black Bat or Mr. Scarlet?
Of the two characters the serial version of Captain America was a replacement for - Mr. Scarlet or the Black Bat - the more likely candidate is the Black Bat because (1) The Black Bat had no kid sidekick, as did the serial version of Captain America; (2) The Black Bat had a secretary who helped him in his adventures and was also the one who'd saved his life and later had his eyesight restored surgically. The serial's Captain Anerica also has a secretary who assists him on his adventures; the name Grant Gardner has the same three syllables as the name Tony Quinn, was the Black Bat's real identity, so the switch would've been an easy one for the serial writers. It is likely - or so I believe - that Fox Publications, who owned the Black Bat character, withdrew the character from the serial after making a deal with DC Comics head Whitney Ellsworth not to transfer the character to other media. The character was then replaced by Captain America in the script. For the comic, the Black Bat was replaced by a character called the Mask, alias Tony Trent.Glammazon (talk) 00:02, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

This isn't public domain
The copyright to at least the first 3 chapters was renewed https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19713251213libr/page/60/mode/2up Στάλιν και παραλλαγή (talk) 20:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I don't think there's any reference to it being public domain in the article, except for a link at the bottom to a list: List of films in the public domain in the United States. That page doesn't include Captain America in the list, so I took that link out. Toughpigs (talk) 20:57, 17 June 2024 (UTC)