Marvel’s Captain America For The 4th Of July – Now Unfrozen After 9/11

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Captain America for the 4th of July, now unfrozen after 9/11, as Chip Zdarsky & Valerio Schiti rewrite the early Marvel Comics Universe

Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Marvel Comics has a sliding timeline in its shared continuity universe, so occasions shift ahead in time to forestall its characters from ageing out. Initially, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm of the Implausible 4 met preventing in World Struggle II, then that shifted to Korea and Vietnam, even the Iraq Struggle, earlier than being moved to a fictitious struggle, which now could be situated at any time. Nevertheless, some characters have their origins at mounted factors, necessitating rejuvenation, similar to Magneto and the freezing of Captain America after World Struggle II. Initially revived lower than twenty years later, that date has shifted as properly. However by no means so visibly as in right now’s Captain America #1 by Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti, revealed by Marvel Comics for the week of the 4th of July.

As in right now’s new Captain America #1, we get the primary express depiction that Captain America now got here out of the ice a couple of years after the occasions of 9/11 in 2001.

As we’re informed, alongside tales from the primary week of Captain America’s revival into the fashionable world, of a younger man, David Colton, who was a young person watching the 9/11 assaults on New York in individual.

And whose life mirrors that of the legend of Steve Rogers, a scrawny particular person impressed by occasions to enroll, and combat within the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, regardless of being a poor bodily specimen, making his approach in by way of willpower alone.

He finds himself mistreated by the very Military he was impressed to enroll to serve alongside.

Not simply from the enlisted males however by the officers as properly. And but regardless of all this, his spirit is unbroken, even when his physique is.

Did the Tremendous Soldier serum die with Captain America? As we see the US authorities and military take care of their returning soldier.

As they begin to consider his story as properly. Whether or not that is the Avengers, at a time when even Tony Stark would not admit he’s Iron Man, although he has already shifted his manufacturing from weapons of struggle to smartphones. Not totally positive which triggered probably the most harm however hey.

As Captain America involves phrases with the beliefs and failings of the brand new world, and needs so as to add extra to the previous.

So we begin to sew collectively a extra cohesive historical past of this Marvel Universe in its early days, with SHIELD, Iron Man, the Avengers, the Implausible 4 and, oh sure, Physician Doom.

In the event you had been questioning how the MCU may wish to sew all that collectively, possibly that is what Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti are doing proper right here. In addition to giving us a brand new Captain America/Bucky determine. Simply as the unique Marvel Comics sequence created a brand new nineteen-fifties model of Captain America to clarify his comedian e book appearances then, it seems to be like we is perhaps getting a brand new model, Dave Colton, set between 9/11 and the emergence of Captain America from the ice…

… and putting all of it within the context of the Iraq Struggle, with this new Captain America toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein. Could not have come at a greater time, may it?. Captain America #1 by Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti is revealed by Marvel Comics right now.

CAPTAIN AMERICA #1
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Valerio Schiti (CA) Chip Zdarsky
A NEW ERA FOR CAPTAIN AMERICA BEGINS HERE! Whereas Captain America slumbered in ice, the world modified – for higher and for worse. Steve Rogers awakens to a actuality the place battles are fought within the shadows by way of secrets and techniques and subterfuge, and villains aren’t really easy to determine. When a fledgling dictator named Victor Von Doom conquers Latveria, Steve faces a vital resolution: adapt to a brand new sort of warfare, or forge his personal path? And what is going to the selection he makes up to now imply for his future? Expertise the untold story of Captain America’s first encounter with Physician Doom as Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti group up for a sport-altering new period of CAPTAIN AMERICA! Rated T+In Outlets: Jul 02, 2025 SRP: $5.99

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