Marvel, watch out: A Captain China movie might be on the way

Captain China is actually an American comic (and you can buy it on Amazon)

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Captain China is drawn by Jim Lai, known for sketching Hong Kong kung fu comics.

Published: 8:00pm, 16 Jul 2018Updated: 8:32am, 20 Sep 2019

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

You know the story, right? A super soldier that’s a symbol of his country, woken from a 50 year-long cryogenic sleep after World War II, trying to assimilate into modern culture while fighting baddies and tasked with saving the US President.

Except i’m not talking about Captain America. I’m talking about Captain China.

Yeah, this is a real thing. Even more surprising is that it’s actually from an American publisher, and was created for US readers.

It’s a 12-issue comic series, published by Excel Comics, which you can buy from Amazon. The series is penned by Chia-chi Wang from the US, who used to work at Marvel, and Jim Lai from Hong Kong.

While it isn't from the country, Captain China also enjoys quite a bit of fame among Chinese comic fans. Excel Comics told us it’s mostly being read in China through forums such as Baidu Tieba. While each issue is priced at US$1 in the West, they purposefully distributed the comics on China’s internet for free so that more Chinese readers will get to know the character.

So it’s no wonder many Chinese companies are flirting with making a movie based on Captain China.