[photo found here (cropped)]
We now know where the authentic Captain America shield from Stephen Colbert’s talk show set — one given to him by Marvel itself — wound up after the cancelation of the Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
It is now in the hands of Colbert’s friend and late-night competitor, Jimmy Kimmel.
The pair recounted the story on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, [broadcast September 15, 2026] where Colbert appeared as a guest the night after he won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series for the final year of his now-canceled late-night talk show.
As Colbert explained it, when Marvel killed off Steve Rogers in the pages of the Civil War comic book, he received a letter from the company’s editor-in-chief, Joe Quesada. At the time, Colbert was the host of The Colbert Report, a spoof of blowhard news channel opinion shows where he played a pumped-up cartoon of an ultra-patriotic journalist.
“[Quesada] said ‘Listen, we opened Cap’s will. And we read Steve Rogers’ will. And in the will it says that he believe the only person patriotic enough to wield the solid vibranium shield was Steven Colbert,’” Colbert recalled.
He continued “So they had a shield that had been hanging on the wall at Marvel since 1960. And they sent it to me. And that hung on my set for the next 20 years. And so when my set was being taken apart, I knew exactly where I wanted to send the shield. So I wrote you a letter and I sent you the shield.”
[by ScreenCrush]
