Captain America: The First Avenger million in what was the second highest-grossing opening weekend for a superhero film in 2011, behind "Thor" ($65.7 million). "Captain America: The First Avenger" is the third highest-grossing motion picture set during the World War II era, after "Saving Private Ryan" and "Pearl Harbor". The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 79% approval rating with an average rating of 6.9/10 based on 258 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "With plenty of pulpy action, a pleasantly retro vibe, and a handful of fine performances, "Captain America" is solidly old-fashioned blockbuster entertainment." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score, rated the
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