365 Days of Defiance, Day 128: Separated at Birth: And I thought the Shield had big feet

Left: Pep Comics (Archie/MLJ 1940 series) #22 (December 1941); pencils and inks by Irv Novick
Right: Super Comics (Citren News Company, Canada) #1 (c. December 1941); retouches on Shield's costume by unknown artist
(Click picture to men's 21 extra-wide-size)

Pep Comics #22 is cover-dated December 1941, but was put on sale on or about October 15, 1941: seven weeks before Pearl Harbor and before the USA declared war. And the famous Hitler-sluggin' cover of Captain America Comics #1 was published in December 1940, a year before.

My point, and I do have one: be like Kirby and Novick: resist early, resist often, folks.