Captain America’s shield is one of Marvel’s most iconic weapons. The image of the
shield is also very classic. The whole round shield is composed of red, blue and silver. Red, blue and five-pointed star are elements of the American flag, while the metallic color reflects the shield made of vibrating gold alloy.
The color of the Captain America shield is also very classic, with a silver five-pointed star in the center. The gap between the five-pointed star and the inner circle is filled with blue, and the three rings around the inner circle are red, silver, and red.
However, in the first few decades of the US team's birth, the US team's shield was not like this.
Today we will talk about the history of changes in the color of the outer ring of Captain America’s shield.
In March 1941, Captain America appeared in the first issue of the comic "Captain America". During this period, Captain America used a triangular shield.
Because of this triangular shield, Marvel Comics was also warned by its counterpart MLJ Comics. Because this shield is very similar to the chest emblem of MLJ’s comic character "Shield", Marvel had to change the triangular shield. Become a "more popular" round shape.
's original prototype shield, the outermost ring is not red but blue.
Interestingly, the color of the outer ring of the shield was changing all the time. This may be caused by the painter's sloppyness when adding color, or it may be caused by different painters' impressions of the shield. There are times when
is more sloppy, such as the shield below, which has no red elements at all.
In the next ten years, the color of the outer ring of the US team's shield has been "red and blue." Sometimes there is a silver outer ring.
Until the second boom of American comics: the arrival of the Silver Age , Marvel officially determined the color of the outer ring of Captain America’s shield. Since then, the color of the outer ring of the shield has been consistent.
