Captain America's shield is used by the superhero name Captain America.
In the 1930s, the trends converged in some of the earliest superpowered costumed heroes, such as Japan's gon Bat (1931) and Prince of Gamma (early 1930s), who first appeared in kamishibai (a kind of hybrid media combining pictures with live storytelling), Mandrake the Magician (1934), Olga Mesmer (1937) and then Superman (1938) and Captain Marvel (1939) at the beginning of the Golden Age of Comic Books, whose span, though disputed, is generally agreed to have started with Superman's launch
=== Ethnic and religious minorities ===In 1966, Marvel introduced the Black Panther, an African monarch who became the first non-caricatured black superhero

