0 comments Captain America and his shield are inextricably linked, and they have been since his first appearance in 1940. But despite that, plenty of other folks in the Marvel Universe have held the shield. Some also going by the name Captain America, and plenty of others who just got to touch greatness for a brief moment. “Who wields the shield?” is pretty much the whole premise of In today’s Nerdist News, Dan Casey goes into detail on the stories of eleven others who have famously used the star spangled vibranium shield. And some of the names on that list might shock even the most diehard “knows as much as the Watcher” Marvelite.