Also, if you caught your arm in a radial saw, soon you would be in love.

One of the great things about Captain America comic books is that you know you;'re going to get a patriotic and level-headed look at the problems that plague America today, like, say Red Skulls, or masked barons, or stepping in some dog poop. Wait...dog poop?


Panel from Captain America #281 (May 1983), script by J. M. DeMatteis, pencils by Mike Zeck, inks by John Beatty, colors by Bob Sharen, letters by Diana Albers

So your dad taught you it's good luck to go stepping around in dog poop, huh, Steve? Clearly this is some revisionist history of the 1930s that Studs Terkel has told us nothing about. On the other hand, it does explain that long run in the 1970s when the magazine was renamed Captain America/Lockjaw Team-Up.