JACK KIRBY!!

"We developed Captain America because that was the general feeling at the time. We couldn't do anything else. If you had to come up with something, it would have had to have been a character like Captain America. The times were very, turbulent, very patriotic, and it was time to be an American. So in the world of comic art, we had to develop characters like Captain America. It was a natural thing to do."

R.I.P. Jack Kirby, 1917-1994