Steve Englehart

I always wanted a secret room like Batman had, you know, where you go through the grandfather clock and go into the cave or whatever.

And so...

We built this.

What if he stood for American ideals?

The stuff that transcends whatever America's doing at this particular time.

And then?

They caught the Watergate burglars breaking into the Watergate Hotel to burgle the Democrats.

And he asked himself... If I were Captain America, what would I do?

So I recast stuff.

Nixon's right-hand man was Haldeman, who had been an advertising guy.

And I came up with a character called Harderman, who was an advertising guy.

And Nixon's re-election committee was the Committee to Re-elect the President, which was known as CREEP.

And I came up with the Committee to Regain America's Principles,

which is known as crap.

Nobody is in doubt, really, who that's supposed to be.

Captain America one day discovered that there were ads being run by the Committee to Regain America's Principles saying that Captain America was a vigilante, not to be trusted.

Then Captain America got thrown in jail.

Into the White House, into the Oval Office.

All right, mister, into the line.

So to have that guy find out that the president was a crook...