I really like the part about Steve's nightmare, detailed but not overdone, the bodies frozen to the ground
That charming little detail came from a book on WWII and censorship, from a group of censored photographs taken by Army photographers after the Battle of the Bulge (anything with severed limbs or otherwise visibly mutilated corpeses couldn't be published, nor could anything where a dead man's face was clearly visible).
I read the book on March 8th last year, for a paper on WWI and WWII propaganda. Given the date, the entire thing is burned into my brain (once I finished my paper, I made it to the local comicbook store just in time to pick up their last copy of Captain America #25, for which I was totally unspoiled, having spent the entire day in the university library, looking at pictures of dead soldiers and paper-writing and complete cut off from the internet and all other fans and news outlets). I almost started crying when I had to present my paper to the rest of my graduate seminar the next day, because I'd brought prints of covers from Golden Age Captain America comics as some of my visual aids.
Re: re: To the Ends of The Earth
That charming little detail came from a book on WWII and censorship, from a group of censored photographs taken by Army photographers after the Battle of the Bulge (anything with severed limbs or otherwise visibly mutilated corpeses couldn't be published, nor could anything where a dead man's face was clearly visible).
I read the book on March 8th last year, for a paper on WWI and WWII propaganda. Given the date, the entire thing is burned into my brain (once I finished my paper, I made it to the local comicbook store just in time to pick up their last copy of Captain America #25, for which I was totally unspoiled, having spent the entire day in the university library, looking at pictures of dead soldiers and paper-writing and complete cut off from the internet and all other fans and news outlets). I almost started crying when I had to present my paper to the rest of my graduate seminar the next day, because I'd brought prints of covers from Golden Age Captain America comics as some of my visual aids.