Captain America: The First Avenger favorite superhero as a child because "my dad told me I could one day be Captain America". Joe Johnston met with Marvel to discuss directing the film. "Captain America" was put on hold during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. However, in January 2008, Marvel Entertainment reached an interim comprehensive agreement with the Writers Guild of America that would put writers immediately back to work on various projects that were under the company's development. On May 5, 2008 (after the success of "Iron Man"), Marvel announced the film "The First Avenger: Captain America" (the working title) for release in
Captain America and the Falcon almost immediately, problems Priest would later admit were created by both himself and Bart Sears: The death blow for "Captain America and the Falcon" came when Captain America's solo series was once again relaunched in 2005. This new solo series featured stories once again set in the Marvel Universe. With sales dropping and the series very reason for existing now gone, Marvel canceled "Captain America and the Falcon" with issue #14. The fourteen issues of "Captain America and the Falcon" were broken up into various storyarcs. The first storyarc, titled "Two Americas" was contained within the first four issues. The