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Original vintage Captain America’s Cookhouse restaurant menu from Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland.
This is an early Captain America’s menu featuring colorful Captain America comic-book artwork on the front cover and the restaurant’s original “Captain America’s Cookhouse” branding.
Captain America’s opened on Grafton Street in Dublin in 1971 and became a well-known Dublin institution. The restaurant combined American-style food, rock-and-roll memorabilia and comic-book imagery at a time when this type of themed restaurant was highly unusual in Ireland.
The Little Museum of Dublin preserves an example of a Captain America’s menu from this era in its collection and dates the style to the 1970s.
Of particular interest to collectors, noted Irish artist Jim FitzPatrick has stated that he was responsible for the early Captain America’s menu cover art and design in addition to creating artwork and murals for the restaurant. FitzPatrick is internationally known for his iconic Che Guevara artwork.
The front features a large Captain America comic-style image with additional comic panels and the wording:
“CAPTAIN AMERICA’S COOKHOUSE”
and
“MENU”
The interior retains the original printed food and drink menu, including:
• Captain America’s Cookhouse hamburgers
• Captain America specials
• Cookhouse salads
• wines
• drinks
• pastries
• shakes
• ices and sundaes
The menu references the original Grafton Street location in Dublin and retains the period prices throughout.
The rear is marked:
“Printed by Mount Salus Press Ltd., Dublin 4.”
CONDITION:
Vintage used condition with noticeable age and handling wear.
There are creases, wrinkles and waviness throughout the menu, along with surface wear, age toning/discoloration and general storage wear. The clear protective covering also shows wear and wrinkling.
The menu remains intact and presents very well as an unusual piece of vintage Dublin, restaurant, comic-book and pop-culture memorabilia.
Please review all photographs carefully for the exact condition. The photographs show the exact item you will receive and are considered part of the description.
An unusual crossover collectible with appeal to collectors of:
• Captain America and Marvel memorabilia
• Jim FitzPatrick artwork
• Vintage Dublin / Irish memorabilia
• Restaurant and menu ephemera
• 1970s pop culture
• Comic-book advertising and commercial art
