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When Steve Rogers won his comic book, there was still no Marvel, but Timely Comics. Initially known as Timely Publications, this was Martin Goodman's oldest comic publisher and it was only in 1960 that it evolved into what we know today as Marvel Comics.

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Steve Rogers was born on July 4, 1920, during the Great Depression in the United States to a poor immigrant family.

In addition to being a fragile boy, his father was abusive. Steve watched, unable to do anything to prevent it, to episodes of domestic violence between his parents Joseph and Sarah.

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In the early 1940s, shocked by the Nazi atrocities in Europe, Steve tried to enlist in the army. Failing the requirements due to his fragility and poor health, he was invited to volunteer for the Super Soldier Project.
Rogers was then taken to a secret laboratory and, after injections and ingestion of the Serum, he was exposed to Vita rays, which activated and stabilized the chemicals in his system. The process altered his physiology and he transformed himself from a fragile boy into a man at the maximum of his physical efficiency.