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Tigress DEM

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1. Ironically, Captain America WITHOUT the super drug they gave him, was a scrawny guy.

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Thu Nov 21, 2013, 12:32 AM

Nov 2013

http://www.superherostuff.com/biographies/captainamericabiography.html

Captain America's appeal was novel; he was not born with great power, but rather had it bestowed upon him as a gift. The champion of freedom started out as Steve Rogers, a scrawny 4-F rejected by the army and then redeemed by a dose of a "strange seething liquid" that turned him into a strapping specimen of heroic young manhood. It cold happen to anyone, even the ordinary reader. And part of the attraction was that Steve Rogers never became excessively gifted; he wasn't invulnerable - he was just tougher and braver and smarter than anyone else.

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