By Michael Cavna, The Washington Post If there’s one superhero character whose rise might be most tied to the events of World War II, it is Captain America, who emerged from the minds of legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and sprung forth from an iconic 1941 debut cover on which Cap smacks Hitler right in the kisser. Captain America is so identified with his victories over the Third Reich, in fact, that it proved controversial last year when Marvel debuted Nick Spencer and artist Jesus Saiz’s tales of “Steve Rogers: Captain America” by having Cap utter two unthinkable words: “Hail Hydra.” Since then, Spencer has launched Marvel’s “Secret Empire,” in which the rule of Cap’s villainous group Hydra provides parallels to the Nazi Party’s rise in 1930s Germany. Amid the violence in Charlottesville last weekend, one participant in the white-supremacist rally was spotted wearing a “Hydra” T-shirt and some wore Captain America helmets, reports Bleeding Cool.

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