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As for Cap vs. Batman, I'd go for Batman. It's not an easy call, but Batman was first for me and I have more reading history with the Caped Crusader. •• Batman was also first for me, my second superhero, in fact. There's a story I have told before that probably accounts for at least part of the reason Cap edges out Batman by at wee bit. When I first encountered Captain America, in AVENGERS 4, I had a distinct feeling of deja vu. But this was the RETURN of Captain America, after an absence of almost ten years. I had not seen any of his previous comics, or the "test return" in STRANGE TALES. AVENGERS 4 was my first exposure to Cap -- and yet. . . and yet. . . It was strangely supernatural, and being the impressionable lad I was, it caused me to bond with the character like no other. Of course, decades later I would remember having read a single "Lancelot Strong" story, a few years before AVENGERS 4. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF PRIVATE STRONG was another of SImon & Kirby's attempts to "restart" a Captain America kind of character, in the Fifties, and as "the Shield", Strong had many of the aspects of Cap. 
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