Monument to Captain America to appear in Brooklyn

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Marvel Comics, the publisher of the famous Captain America series, ordered the construction and installation of a four-meter bronze sculpture of its legendary hero in Prospect Park in New York's Brooklyn borough.

For the first time, the sculpture will be presented to the public at the comicCon annual international comic festival in San Diego at the end of July. In Brooklyn Park, it will be installed 10 August.

In the sculpture sketch released by Marvel, Captain America is depicted with his famous shield raised up. Marvel Vice President Paul Gitter told USA Today that the pose was chosen because it "symbolizes Captain America's strength and resilience."

The sculpture will also feature the words "I'm just a guy from Brooklyn," a quote from the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger.

Some fans, however, indicate that in fact the character of the original comic was originally from the Lower East Side area in Manhattan.

In the comics, the superhero was the son of Irish immigrants, just like his creator Jack Kirby, the son of Lower East Side Jewish immigrants from Austria.

One fan, Nicholas Slayton, tweeted: “Yes you guys! Cap is from the Lower East Side, not Brooklyn at all."

Ronald Pollock, also on Twitter, wrote: "It's a little strange that the Captain America statue would be in Brooklyn when Jack Kirby was born on the Lower East Side."

However, Teresa Jusino noted in her material for The Mary Sue website that film fans view Brooklyn as the place of residence of the hero.

“In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Brooklyn, as the place where Captain America was raised, is more important than his childhood on the Lower East Side. For those who have not read comic books, this is the place that is important. So it makes a certain amount of sense that the statue would be for fans of the film rather than fans of the comics," she said.

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