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Albert Pyun (born May 19, 1953)[citation needed] is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs. Some of Pyun's better known films include The Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg, and Nemesis.
Pyun's first film, The Sword and the Sorcerer, remains his highest-grossing as of 2011[update], eventually earning $36,714,025 in the United States. Its opening on April 30, 1982 resulted in a gross of $4,100,886 which ranked the film #2 that week in America.Richard Lynch received the Best Supporting Actor Saturn award for his performance as Cromwell.
Pyun's second film, Radioactive Dreams, was awarded the top festival prize of the Golden Raven at the 5th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 1987.
Pyun's career took a more mainstream turn with the thriller Dangerously Close, and the romantic adventure film, Down Twisted, starring Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket, and Courteney Cox.
Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (cover-dated March 1941), from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. As of 2007, an estimated 210 million copies of "Captain America" comic books had been sold in 75 countries. For nearly all of the character's publication history, Captain America was the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a frail young man who was enhanced to the peak of human perfection by an experimental serum in order to aid the United States war effort. Captain America wears a costume that bears an American flag motif, and is armed with an indestructible shield that can be thrown as a weapon.
An intentionally patriotic creation who was often depicted fighting the Axis powers of World War II, Captain America was Timely Comics' most popular character during the wartime period. After the war ended, the character's popularity waned and he disappeared by the 1950s aside from an ill-fated revival in 1953. Captain America was reintroduced during the Silver Age of comics when he was revived from suspended animation by the superhero team the Avengers in The Avengers #4 (March 1964). Since then, Captain America has often led the team, as well as starring in his own series.