(CBS News)
"Captain America" opens in theaters Friday across the U.S., but will the film keep comics alive?
"Early Show" co-anchor Jeff Glor recently visited the man behind Marvel Comics -- Editor in Chief Axel Alonso -- to find out.
Glor reports that, long before Captain America showed up in the 2011 summer film, he was seen on the cover of a Marvel comic book in the spring of 1941.
Showing Glor the original comic, Alonso said, "These are little pieces of history you are holding in your hands here."
Pictures: "Captain America" debuts
For more than 70 years, Marvel has been making comics, with writers and illustrators penning fantastic tales of good versus evil. Spider-Man, The Hulk and X-Men are just some of the company's heroes.
Alonso, pointing to characters in the comics, said, "That's' Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman and Magneto. ... I couldn't tell you who any of them were when I got the job."
That's because the latest caretaker of Marvel's famous characters is a guy who got into it by accident.
"Working in comics was never a goal," he said. "I went to Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, I wrote for a bunch of papers, but I actually answered an ad in The New York Times for editors at DC Comics. And I thought 'Oh, I'd kinda like to check that out."'
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