Worth reading: Jonathan Last on the death of Captain America, in today’s WSJ. In the course of it, Last reminds us of how left-wing popular comics can be:

Consider this monologue from a ’70s issue in which Cap muses: “I’m like a dinosaur–in the cro-magnon age! An anachronism–who’s out-lived his time! This is the day of the anti-hero–the age of the rebel–and the dissenter! It isn’t hip–to defend the establishment!–only to tear it down! And, in a world rife with injustice, greed, and endless war–who’s to say the rebels are wrong? . . . I’ve spent a lifetime defending the flag–and the law! Perhaps I should have battled less–and questioned more!”
While he avoided Vietnam, Captain America dove head-on into Watergate. He took up arms against a thinly veiled version of the Nixon White House, which was linked to a McCarthyite conservative political group called the Committee to Regain America’s Principles, or “CRAP.” But this CREEP knock-off wasn’t merely attempting to re-elect the president using dirty tricks. Instead, CRAP was a front for a cabal of actual fascists who were plotting to take over the country. The leader of the conspiracy was, naturally, the president.
After being duped by the president, Cap dropped his hero name and became, briefly, “Nomad, the man without a country.”