Script:	Roger Stern (credited)
Pencils:	John Byrne (credited) (see notes)
Inks:	Joe Rubinstein (credited) (page 22, see notes)
Colors:	Bob Sharen (credited)
Letters:	Joe Rosen (credited)

• Genre:superhero

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:In the latter days of 1940, as the entire world teetered on the brink of global war, there arose a man unlike any other--
Universe:Marvel : mainstream

The Avengers

• Giant-Man [Hank Pym]

  (cameo)
• Iron Man [Tony Stark]

  (cameo)
• Thor [Donald Blake]

  (cameo)
• Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]

  (cameo)

The Invaders

• Human Torch [Jim Hammond]

  (cameo)
• Spitfire [Jacqueline Falsworth]

  (cameo)
• Sub-Mariner [Namor]

  (cameo)
• Union Jack [Lord James Montgomery Falsworth]

  (cameo)

• Agent R [Elizabeth Ross]
• Dr. Murray Anderson
• Baron Blood [John Falsworth]

  (cameo)
• Baron Zemo [Heinrich Zemo]

  (cameo)
• Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes]

  (origin)
• Captain America [Steve Rogers]

  (origin)
• Sergeant Duffy
• Dr. Abraham Erskine
• Adolf Hitler

  (cameo)
• Heinz Kruger

  (death) (antagonist) (also disguised as Special Agent Clemson)
• Master Man [Wilhelm Lohmer]

  (cameo)
• General Phillips
• Red Skull [Johann Shmidt]

  (cameo)
• Sarah Rogers
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Under-Secretary Simms
• Warrior Woman [Julia Koenig]

  (cameo)

Synopsis:

A retelling of Captain America's origin.

Reprints (19)

• in Captain America: The Secret Story of Marvel's Star-Spangled Super Hero (Ideals Publishing Corp., 1981 series) (1981), (1981) [page 22 only], (1981) [three details of panels], (1981) [detail from page 1]
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #114/115 ([Mars 1981])
• in Captain America (Arédit-Artima, 1984 series) #4 - Souvenirs, souvenirs... (juin 1985)
• in The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1985 series) #12 (November 1986) [excerpt]
which is reprinted
• in Essential Marvel Saga (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• in The Best of Marvel Comics (Marvel, 1987 series) #1 (1987)
• in Captain America [Shan-Lon] (Shan-Lon Enterprises, 1990 series) #[2] (1990)
• in Captain America [War and Remembrance] (Marvel, 1990 series) (1990)
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #147 (Febrero 7 de 1991)
• in Captain America - Souvenirs et combats (Semic S.A., 1991 series) #[nn] (octobre 1991)
• in Obras Maestras (Planeta DeAgostini, 1991 series) #10 - Capitán América: El Sueño Americano (Diciembre 1993)
• in Grandson of Origins of Marvel Comics (Marvel, 1998 series) ([March] 1998)
• in Captain America: War & Remembrance [Second Edition] (Marvel, 2007 series) (2007)
• in Marvel Gold: Capitán América de Roger Stern y John Byrne (Panini España, 2008 series) #2 (Agosto 2008)
• in Coleccionable Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2010 series) #3 - Capitán América: El Sueño Americano (Septiembre 2010)
• in Captain America: War & Remembrance (Marvel, 2010 series) (2010)
• in Marvel Série I (Levoir, 2012 series) #3 - Capitão América - A Lenda Viva
• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #9 - Dawn's Early Light (2014)
• in Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #[1] (2016)
• in Marvel Tales: Captain America (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (September 2019)

All but page 22 are reproduced directly from Byrne's pencils.

Script:	Roger Stern (credited as R. S.)
Pencils:	?
Inks:	?
Colors:	?
Letters:	typeset

• Genre:superhero

• Feature Logo:Letters to the Living Legend
• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Before we begin...

Reprints (2)

• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #9 - Dawn's Early Light (2014)
• in Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #[1] (2016) [Two text articles written by Roger, one appearing in the letters page of Captain America #250 and the other in the letters page of Captain America #255.]

Letters from: Eric L. Watts, Tom A. Field, and Rob Imes.