Back in the 90’s Marvel were well known for their tremendous animated series – X-Men, Spiderman, Silver Surfer. But one cartoon that never made the airwaves was Captain America. In 1998, Saban Entertainment teamed up once more with Marvel to begin work on an animated series based on one of the most iconic of Marvel’s characters…
Will Meugniot (who had also worked on another war-based cartoon, G.I. Joe: The Movie) was asked to design the series alongside Frank Gomez, Shannon Denton, Roy Burdine and John Fang; and the series’ writing staff included comic book writers and authors, including Michael Reaves and Steve Engleheart. On the whole, the series was faithful to the 1940’s era Captain America in much the same way that Stan and Jack’s 1960’s retelling of Cap’s golden age stories were true to their source material – there were some changes, notably that Cap worked alongside a team...
Will Meugniot (who had also worked on another war-based cartoon, G.I. Joe: The Movie) was asked to design the series alongside Frank Gomez, Shannon Denton, Roy Burdine and John Fang; and the series’ writing staff included comic book writers and authors, including Michael Reaves and Steve Engleheart. On the whole, the series was faithful to the 1940’s era Captain America in much the same way that Stan and Jack’s 1960’s retelling of Cap’s golden age stories were true to their source material – there were some changes, notably that Cap worked alongside a team...
- 3/23/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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