Please shed some light on this subject if you can. There are contradictory posts on this page that are confusing me. I thought cap's shield was retconned but am I wrong?
On the adamantium page it says...
"MacLain began experimenting with the process that creates adamantium as a young scientist in the employ of the United States government in the early 1940s. By accident he created a special adamantium compound, which is more durable than any form of adamantium created since, and then through another accident, fused this adamantium sample he had created with a sample of an unknown metal catalyst and the metal which is now known to have been Wakandan Vibranium. The result was the large rounded specimen of alloy which is the most virtually indestructible substance known to man. This alloy specimen was given to Captain America to serve as his Shield. The exact chemical composition of Captain America's shield and the exact degree to which it is indestructible have never been determined, nor has MacLain or anyone else ever learned how to duplicate either the special adamantium compound used in the creation of the shield, which Is known as Proto-Adamantium, or the process which fused the Proto-Adamantium with the Wakandan Vibranium."
But on the shield page it says...
"Dr. Myron MacLian tried to create a metal that is comparably durable to Hercules' Adamantine mace. He experimented on Wakandan Vibranium because of its unique capabilities. One night, Dr. MacLain fell asleep and an unknown catalyst fused the Vibranium and an experimental iron alloy. Because he was asleep, Dr. MacLain wasn't able to replicate the bonding process or know what was the catalyst. (It is currently speculated by some, the catalyst was carbonadium.) It was then poured into a mold for a tank hatch to give it a circular form, and painted into an American flag motif. President Franklin Roosevelt presented this new shield to Captain America.
Dr. MacLain tried to recreate the unknown alloy without the Vibranium, with the end result being the creation of Adamantium."
Which is it?
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