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Captain America: Juiced-Up Hero?

Q:  In the recent “Captain America” movie, a puny kid becomes a muscled-up superhero through injections of a special “serum.”  Doesn’t that sound like a two-hour commercial for gear? A:  The film was based on the Marvel Comics character, who was conceived by writer Joe Simon in 1940 as a consciously political creation. World War…