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Call in the big gun
Cable arrives above Breakworld in stealth-cloaked Graymalkin II. His cybernetic arm is currently a 'shield' version, but his AI Belle warns him that it might not be sufficient for what he intends to do. He dives out of the ship and uses disposable jet boots to accelerate to 10 times terminal velocity, relying on the shield arm to get him down to the surface alive.Now he remembers his mission briefing as new Security Officer for SWORD's Peak space station (taking over from his younger version Kid Cable). SWORD boss Abigail Brand explains the situation of the Last Annihilation event. Dormammu has invaded this universe (in the shape of his planet-sized head replacing Ego The Living Planet) to take over 5 worlds that will enable him to win it all. (See GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #17 for the immediate effect of that pentagram of planets.) Brand and Nathan Summers are still feeling out the power dynamics of their relationship - they both like to be in control. She introduces Cable to the architect of the plan he's going to be following - Rocket Raccoon. Rocket is surprised when Cable salutes him with respect - it turns out he's a big hero to the future.Back in the immediate future Cable's shield arm is absorbing the energy of atmospheric friction to boost a field which keeps his body inertialess. If it holds out the landing will be a doddle. Unfortunately it fails in the last seconds but Cable still manages to walk away from the crash. However his arm is wrecked, and he discards it along with its AI Belle. But he generates a holographic replacement with a combat AI Nicky (appearing as a devil). That's not all he's got. A Krakoan seed sprouts instantly into a gateway through which come his hand-picked new team of X-Terminators Boom-Boom, Cannonball, Khora Of The Burning Heart, Lila Cheney and Wiz Kid ...... just in time to face a skimmer-riding Breakworld security squad who will take the survivors (if any) to fight in the arenas of Powerlord Varrn. (Things have changed a bit since our last visit.) Khora throws a knife through the leader's brain. Cable tells the others not to damage the skimmers while they take the others down. Cannonball rockets into action, Boom-Boom generates and throws concussion bombs. Wiz Kid generates a shield around his hover-chair, and the 2 very big guns which *do* destroy a skimmer. But then he uses his techno-wizardry to convert its remains into a much better version.They all then fly improved skimmers to City Seven. On the way Lila flirts with Sam Guthrie to remind him of their relationship in his New Mutants/X-Force days, much to the amusement of his fellow X-Forcer Tabitha Smith. But they know that these days he's happily married to Smasher (Izzy Kane) of the Shi'ar Superguardians, with a kid. The city is deserted and Cable now tells them that it's actually an automated factory which contains the weapon they're here to steal.As a giant robot unfolds itself out of the city he says that this Mk2 is much smaller than the Mk1 which was the size of a moon. It fires missiles at them but Cable gets Khora to share her power with Boom-Boom who then creates a colossal energy ball which Cannonball flies to the robot's head. The team are relieved that Sam's forcefield protected him as he emerges from the shattered head. Wiz Kid then flies his chair inside the robot with Khora in tow. Her power boost enables him to only take 2 seconds to convert the robot into a 'planet-sized super-gun' (somewhat of an exaggeration there).Lila Cheney then does what she was brought along to do. She teleports them and the gun across the Galaxy to Port Prometheus on Mars. Where Brand and Rocket have used most of Krakoa's store of mysterium to create a giant bullet to go inside the gun. (I'm unsure whether the bullet is made of mysterium or they used it as Galactic currency to pay for it.)The Last Annihilation event will continue in the LA: WICCAN & HULKLING 1-shot.


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A Cup of Tea

Sam Wilson visits his parents’ graves in the cemetery to tell them what had
happened earlier: at a secluded farmhouse, Misty Knight presented him with a
shield of his own and he declined it, feeling that he was not good enough to be
Captain America. Over a cup of tea, she explains how many people, T’Challa,
Tony Stark, Thor, and many others contributed to the forging of the shield
because they believed Sam had to be Captain America. But Sam is uncertain. Then
baddies assault the house they are in and Sam picks up the shield to protect
himself and Misty; when the bad guys are defeated, Sam agrees to wield the
shield. He thanks his parents for raising him to be a man who could be Captain
America.
“Nothing
But a Fight”Writer:
Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly. Art: Carmen Carnero. Colors: Nolan Woodard.
Letters: Joe Caramagna.Synopsis:
In England, Steve Rogers joins many others for the funeral of Roger Aubrey
a/k/a the Destroyer. Many offer a brief eulogy: Ghost Girl, Aaron Fischer, Jim
Hammond, Pam from the Radio Company, Namor, Wolverine, Captain Marvel, Peggy
Carter, Nick Fury, Captain Wings, Silver Scorpion, leading to Sharon Carter who
pays tribute to her fallen friend by becoming the new Destroyer. Steve reads
one of Roger’s favorite poems.
Roger
is buried beside Brian Falsworth. Redacted approaches Steve and says he wants
to be a person and will travel the world; Steve gives him the name Nomad. The
Radio Company people take Peggy Carter under their wing. Steve meets with
Bucky Barnes, hiding from everyone else; Bucky defends his use of Ian Rogers as a pawn
in the game to destroy the Outer Circle. Steve explains the problem isn’t Ian,
it’s that Bucky left him when he was needed. They are interrupted by a man
introducing himself as Andrew Agboje, great-grandson of the Dr. Agboje who made
Cap’s shield; he hands over a letter and departs. Steve and Bucky look at the
ancient letter and discover it contains Dr. Agboje’s explanation of how to use
the shield to defeat the Outer Circle. Steve and Bucky reconcile and determine
to work together against the bad guys.
Story
continues in CAPTAIN AMERICA FINALE.
And
five shorter pieces:
“Reflections”Writer:
Stephanie Williams. Art: Rachael Scott. Colors: Matt Milla.Synopsis:
Captain America Sam Wilson delivers an address at a Harlem high school. He
relates how he joined the Avengers and never felt like he fit in, preferring to
do things on his own terms and encouraging the kids to do the same.
“The
Hero”Writer:
J.M. DeMatteis. Art: Sara Pichelli. Colors: Matthew Wilson.Synopsis:
Steve Rogers visits the grave of his friend Arnold Roth who, as a kid,
protected Steve from bullies. They drifted apart as they grew older then Arnie
came back into his life, revealed he was gay, and found acceptance. In Steve’s
mind Arnie was his hero.
“Then
and Now”Writer/penciler:
Dan Jurgens. Art: Bret Breeding. Colors: Alex Sinclair.Synopsis:
Steve reflects on the changes he has seen in the world from the 1940s to the
present, noting that while many things are different, the quest for justice is
the same.
“The
Mantle”Writer:
Cody Ziglar. Art: Marcus Williams.Synopsis:
While Steve Cap and Sam Cap compete at hurling their shields, they talk about
the weight of the mantle of Captain America. Steve tells Sam he is lucky to
share the mantle with him—and then they go back to their contest.
“One
Lucky Shot”Writer:
Gail Simone. Art: Daniel Acuna.Synopsis:
In Calliope Park on the coldest day of the year, A Hydra Agent shoots Captain
America who falls into the stream. A kid finds the shield and takes it home to
show his friends; they play with it in the part then the Hydra agent comes to
collect it. But Cap is there too and punches the guy’s lights out. He is
invited back for hot chocolate at Grandma’s house. “You’re all frozen in ice.” “I’ve
had worse.”


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The Betrayers
Having fought Nazis through the War, Captain America and Bucky realize that the Cold War is fought by spies, so to be prepared, they reenlist in the Army. Serving under Sergeant Shanty Trucks, Private Steve Rogers continues to play the goof-up to divert suspicion. They meet their old adversary journalist Betsy Ross who tells them she is accused of spying for the enemy, just because every time she and her photographer Will Benson cover a story there is a security leak in the area. That night, Steve spots Benson taking secret photos and as Cap and Bucky they follow him and Betsy, dropping onto the roof of their car in transit. Betsy finds the photos Benson took and realizes he is the spy. Benson takes her to his boss’ hideout, where all of the spy photos are stored. Cap sets fire to the building and leaves the big boss inside to burn while rescuing Benson to clear Betsy’s name.


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You Die At Midnight
Returning from a mission, Captain America and Bucky are traveling along the rooftops when they spy someone though a skylight. It is a little blind boy, crying and wishing that Captain America could help him. Dropping into the room the heroes comfort the boy who tells them that his father has been threatened by criminals. Cap and Bucky spot two enemy spies on the street outside and hear them reveal their scheme: they are forcing the boy’s father, designer at a shipyard, to steal the plans for a new midget atomic engine, on threat of harm to his son. Cap heads to the shipyard where he sees Mr. Collins, the boy’s father, open the safe but decide against betraying his country. Encouraged by the sight, Cap approaches Collins, and enlists him in a plan to trap the spies….
Later Collins is seized when he returns home and hustled into a car with his bundled son. Suddenly father and son reveal themselves as Cap and Bucky in disguise and they mob up the Commies. A gunshot flash in the boy’s face manages to restore his eyesight as well. To every real American who believes, Cap and Bucky will always be real.


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His Touch Is Death
To destroy Captain America, the Russians create a huge electrically-charged creature called Electro; his only weakness is that he needs to recharge every 24 hours. The monster is sent to New York where Cap and Bucky are guests of honor in a patriotic parade. A billboard lights up announcing "Captain America dies today!" and then Electro attacks. Cap leads his enemy into a museum exhibit on energy where the villain is clobbered by the workings of a giant typewriter. He manages to shock Bucky and has the boy hero at his mercy when Cap releases a flood of water from a dam display, electrocuting Electro. Outside, the billboard now reads "Captain America lives."


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The Haunted Past!
Steve Rogers has a terrifying nightmare that Captain America is fighting a cadre of Nazi monsters only to end up at Bucky’s grave, with the ghost of his late partner haunting him for his failure. On awakening he makes an appointment with Dr. Faustus, a psychiatrist he met a month earlier. What Steve does not suspect is that Faustus is an enemy: he has been causing Cap’s nightmares by having his sidekick Ferret, a bellboy at Cap’s hotel, slip him a drug. On his way to the doctor, Steve spots Sharon Carter walking down the street and hurries after her. Catching up he finds she is not Sharon and a passing police officer takes on the face of the Red Skull. Believing he’s going mad, Steve runs to Faustus’ office, unaware that behind him the woman and the cop reveal themselves to be Faustus’ henchmen, using masks to dupe Steve. At Faustus’ office, Steve suddenly finds himself the prisoner of Nazi monsters, being shaken back to reality by the psychiatrist. Faustus prescribes stronger medication and sends Steve home, then shows us that the dream was created by actors in a concealed room. Back home, Cap works out with a SHIELD plastoid until Ferret arrives with the new pills. Cap awakens in the middle of the night to find himself an old wrinkled man, with Bucky recruiting him for a mission—a recreation of Bucky’s final adventure. When Steve fails to save his partner yet again, he breaks down into a babbling madman. Dr. Faustus arrives to commend his staff—when Cap jumps up and beats all the henchmen. A surprised Faustus asks what happened and Cap reveals that he had been suspicious and sent the pills to SHIELD for analysis. He only pretended to take the final pill and is wearing an old age mask. As SHIELD agents surround Faustus, the evil psychiatrist challenges Cap to single combat. It lasts one punch.


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In the Name of Batroc!
Steve Rogers is treated to a special viewing of a documentary about Captain America’s wartime exploits by the producers, who are hoping he will agree the narrate it. Unfortunately, the film reawakens Steve’s memories of his failure to save Bucky and leads to his concern for the life of Sharon Carter, and Steve walks out without a word. Elsewhere, Batroc has enlisted the aid of the Swordsman and the Living Laser to recover a hidden weapon. Captain America is also assigned to locate the same weapon, a seismo-bomb, planted by a foreign spy who died without leaving a clue as to its whereabouts. The only warning they have is that three small shocks will be followed by the major one that destroys the city. Cap heads to the place where the spy was captured and finds the villainous trio ahead of him. The Swordsman stays behind to stop Cap while the other two search for the bomb. The foe’s high-tech sword holds off Cap for a time but eventually the Avenger gets the drop on his enemy and knocks him out. The first small shock then strikes the city. Cap catches up with the other two baddies and the Living Laser attacks. Cap dodges the deadly beams until he gets the chance to head-butt his enemy and smash his wrist lasers. As the second shock hits, Cap manages to convince the Laser that the city is in danger and the villain reveals Batroc’s destination, a nearby manhole. Cap and the French acrobat struggle until the third shock strikes. Cap explains the situation and Batroc flees for his life, leaving Cap to search for the bomb. He finds it and manages to defuse it in the nick of time.


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Slave of the Skull!
As the story begins Captain America is engaged in battle with a team of dangerous foes, whom he defeats in a whirlwind of action. They are revealed to be SHIELD’s LMD androids, in a training workout for Cap. Cap reports to the medic to see about the headaches he’s been having lately, when suddenly another, worse one strikes—courtesy of the Red Skull’s nuclear tape implanted on Cap’s neck. The Nazi villain then informs Cap by means of SHIELD’s own closed-circuit TV channel that the tape is the detonator for an H-bomb hidden in Washington, which will go off if anyone tries to remove the tape. The Red Skull issues his first command to Captain America: return to the Island of Exiles for one final battle before his death. After SHIELD has verified the Red Skull’s warning Cap has no choice but to obey his orders and head back to the enemy’s island. Arriving on the island, Cap tries to overpower the Skull but is rendered helpless by the villain’s neuro rod. Meanwhile in Washington, Nick Fury and his team have located the hidden H-bomb but need the expertise of Tony Stark to deactivate it. On the island, Cap recovers to find he must battle the Exile leaders one by one. The Star-Spangled Avenger is attacked first by Cadavus, a cripple in a weaponized murder chair, then the whip-wielding Gruning, and Iron Hand Hauptmann. He then faces the Russian wrestler Krushki, the Italian Baldini with his deadly scarf (seriously), and the Chinese General Ching. Suddenly Cap strikes back, smashing Cadavus’ murder chair into Baldini and inflicting as much damage as he can on the others quickly. The Red Skull presses the detonator to destroy Washington and…nothing happens; Stark was able to defuse the bomb. SHIELD forces invade the island, the Red Skull and the Exile leaders escape in a mini-sub and Captain America raises the US flag over the island in a victory for democracy.


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Now Falls the Skull!
The Red Skull realizes that it would be far more fitting to eliminate Captain America himself, so with the power of the Cosmic Cube, he reassumes his own form and teleports himself to Adolf Hitler’s former retreat at Berchtesgaden. The villain then brings Cap and the Falcon into his presence, vowing to destroy Cap’s newfound ally as well. The Skull begins by caging Redwing and tricking the Falcon into crashing into an invisible barrier when he tries to intervene. The Skull then restores Cap to his true form, startling the Falcon with the discovery of his mentor’s identity. Cap goes on the attack but the Skull encases himself in transparent rock, which he then causes to explode, showering the heroes with stones. An enormous wave floods the room carrying the heroes away. At A.I.M. headquarters, MODOK, explaining to the reader how he escaped certain death in TALES OF SUSPENSE #94 by encasing himself in mental energy to survive the explosion, he orders his scientists to activate the Catholite block which will destroy the Cosmic Cube. Back at Berchtesgaden, the Red Skull has trapped Cap and the Falcon in a desert, where he confronts them. Cap hurls his shield, knocking the Cube out of the Skull’s hand, and when the villain tries to recover it, it melts in his grasp. Attacked by Redwing, the Red Skull finds the Cube still retains enough of its power to allow him to teleport to safety. MODOK gloats over his victory. As the heroes survey the aftermath of the struggle, Cap tells his partner, “We beat him…with a little help from…fate.”


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The Weakest Link!
Steve Rogers is on a dinner date with Sharon Carter (Agent 13) when armed thugs invade the club, shoot stun gas in Steve’s face, and carry off Sharon. When the thugs arrive at the Island of Exiles, the Red Skull is enraged to discover that they did not recognize her escort as Captain America and kill him—but no matter, he will continue with his plans for Nazi world domination. As his Chiefs of Staff are entertained by combat between two prisoners, Captain America arrives on the island. Dropping into the ocean from a SHIELD jet, Cap swims underwater, defeats deadly kelp, commandeers an attack craft, evades enemy fire and lands on the island, fighting his way past numerous guards and only hesitates when he comes face-to-face with the Red Skull himself—long enough for a guard to knock him unconscious. While he is out, the Red Skull implants a small strip of nuclear tape on the back of Cap’s neck, bringing him under the villain’s control. As the Exile leaders quarrel over dividing the conquered Earth, Cap and Agent 13 escape from their cells with her concealed SHIELD technology and fight their way to the airfield. The Red Skull intercepts them there and Cap defeats the Skull in hand-to-hand combat, as a victory for freedom, as Sharon seizes a jet and they fly to safety—or so they think. The Red Skull still holds the detonator that controls the nuclear tape which Cap does not realize is attached to his neck.


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The Coming of…the Falcon!
Captain America, trapped in the Red Skull’s body, is miraculously teleported to the isle of the Exiles by the power of the Cosmic Cube. From a hiding place in the woods, Cap overhears the Exiles plotting vengeance against their former leader for betraying them and realizes the Skull’s purpose in sending him there. The Red Skull causes Cap to fall from his hiding place in full view of the enemy. The Exiles attack the “Red Skull” but in the nick of time a falcon flies into the faces of his foes, allowing Cap the chance to get away. In the forest, Cap remembers that the Skull face is just a mask and he removes it, using clay to disguise his features in case the Exiles have seen the Red Skull’s real face. Back in New York, the Red Skull in Captain America’s body swaggers into a hotel, allowing the public to fawn over him, as part of a scheme to ruin Cap’s reputation as well. Elsewhere MODOK has learned that the Red Skull has recovered the Cosmic Cube and sets his A.I.M. minions to finding a means of destroying it. Back on the island, Cap meets the falcon’s owner, Sam Wilson, a Harlem bird trainer, who was hired by the Exiles to teach them falconry, and only then discovered the true nature of his employers and has since been in hiding with Redwing, attempting to organize the natives into a resistance. He and Cap make common cause against the enemy and Cap suggests that Sam adopt a costumed identity to serve as a symbol to the natives… the Falcon!


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Far Worse Than Death!
The Red Skull has used the power of the Cosmic Cube to switch bodies with Captain America, fooling even Sharon Carter. The transformed Cap pleads with her to listen but the Red Skull simply escorts her from the room. Outside, the Skull sends Sharon back to SHIELD HQ then uses the Cosmic Cube to teleport Cap to the grounds of a government testing lab. Spotting who they think is the criminal Red Skull, security guards open fire. At that moment, to seal Cap’s doom, the Skull causes the lab to explode. Cap overpowers the guards and flees, escaping in a “borrowed” car. The Red Skull, in the hero’s guise, informs the police that the Red Skull can be found driving along a certain highway. The police set up a roadblock and when Cap comes along, it is only his expert driving skills that allow him to bypass the barricade and continue along the highway, with the police in pursuit. At a toll booth Cap crashes through and heads off on a side road. Meanwhile, the Avengers are watching on their viewscreen, wondering why Captain America is not pursuing his enemy. A concerned Rick Jones heads to the park following a tip from the Teen Brigade and finds “Cap” who insults him and drives him off. An embittered Rick decides to walk out of Cap’s life forever. At that moment, the real Cap arrives at Avengers headquarters to seek their aid, but his teammates reject the “Red Skull’s” claims to be Captain America and they attack. The Avengers easily defeat their perceived foe, who won’t fight back, and when they receive a summons from SHIELD, they tie him up to deal with later. The Red Skull then conceives an ironic death for his archenemy: he brings Sharon Carter to Avengers HQ and compels her to shoot the captive “Skull.” Cap pleads with her and something within her stays her hand…the emotion of love, which even the Cosmic Cube cannot overcome. The villain switches to an alternate scheme, transporting Cap to the one place that means instant death for the Red Skull: the Island of the Exiles.


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Suprema, Deadliest of the Species!
At the hidden headquarters of Suprema, mysterious mistress of menace, the lady mastermind tells her assembled gang that the time has come to strike. When a minion questions her plans to become Queen of Crime, she silences him with a karate chop to the head and continues. She reveals her plans to seize control of all criminal rackets within 24 hours by using the power of witchcraft! She begins by heading for the Long Island club of Aces Wilde in her Wolverine Jet; there, by her mysterious powers, she persuades Wilde to sign over control of his casino to her. For the rest of the day, Suprema and her gang move from one crook to another, taking over their operations solely through the beauteous witch’s influence. Meanwhile at SHIELD HQ, Captain America gives a judo demonstration to trainees using Nick Fury as a stooge, then goes back to brooding over Sharon Carter, blissfully unaware of what is about to take place. Suprema, using the sensitive electro-scanner in her Wolverine Jet, is on the lookout for a SHIELD agent; she finds Dum-Dum Dugan by tracking his special mini-badge. She captures Dugan’s mind and persuades him to lead her and her men to SHIELD’s weaponry range just outside the city. There she announces that she is the new Director of SHIELD, bringing Nick Fury and the assembled agents under her spell. Cap is the only one unaffected and he barely manages to fight his way past the enemy gang to safety, hijacking their vehicle. Stopping off at the Daily Bugle and Stark Industries to do some research, Cap finds the means of defeating his foes. Back at SHIELD HQ, Fury and his men suddenly snap out of the spell and quickly overpower Suprema’s gang. Knowing that Suprema and her partner Scarbo were former sideshow hypnotists, Cap had generated an electrical signal to short-circuit the device which amplified her powers. The defeated villainess offers to make Cap her partner, promising him power…but Cap will have none of it and he walks away.


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The Sting of the Scorpion!
A brooding Captain America walks the streets, weary of his endless battle against evil and the changing attitudes of his country, now cynical about patriotism. He goes home to slam down his shield, pull off his mask and wonder where he can find his soul. Unable to resolve his dilemma, he falls into a fitful sleep where he is troubled by dreams of Sharon Carter in danger from A.I.M. assassins. In another part of town, the leader of a spy ring is informed that SHIELD is on their trail, ready to close in when their Agent Thirteen gives the word; the boss has already hired an out-of-town specialist to eliminate her. A restless Steve Rogers goes out early in the morning and is attacked by the Scorpion, who is testing his powers against a random stranger. Steve swings at his enemy only to slam his fist into a wall, enabling the Scorpion to knock him cold. The sudden arrival of the police prevents the villain from stealing the briefcase containing Steve’s Captain America outfit. Steve dashes back to his hotel to don his costume, then searches the city for his foe. In a surprisingly short time, Cap spots his quarry getting into a car and follows him in a cab to a wooded area near a walled estate. The Scorpion turns out to be the hit man hired to kill Sharon and he has just trailed her to this location. Cap (who doesn't see Sharon) sends the cabbie to SHIELD HQ with a summons for help and he attacks the Scorpion. After a wild battle, Cap knocks him unconscious with a springing tree branch. In the meantime, Sharon has been captured by the spies and is bound and gagged in the cellar. Cap bursts into the mansion and routs the enemy. SHIELD arrives and Nick Fury hustles Cap out of the building before Sharon can call out to him. On his way back to the city Cap wonder if Sharon has forgotten him.


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Crack-Up on Campus!
Back in New York after their adventure against the Red Skull, Captain America and the Falcon bid a fond farewell to one another. Cap wants to pick up the threads of his tangled life once more so he heads to SHIELD headquarters to find Sharon Carter. On arrival, Nick Fury tells him that Sharon is away on a mission and invites him to get some rest in their new slumber chair. What Fury doesn't tell him is that a posthypnotic suggestion is being planted in Cap to take up a certain mission for them. When Cap goes home, he is drawn to a newspaper ad seeking a phys ed teacher at Manning College and he decides to apply for the job. Arriving at the campus, Steve Rogers sees a protest rally in progress and comes to the aid of a professor being harassed by students. Cap declines to fight but manages to distract the radicals from the professor who introduces himself to Steve as Paul Fosgrave, the noted mathematician. Interviewing with the dean, Steve is hired and informed about the campus unrest: it seems a respected student leader, Mart Baker, has suddenly turned rabble rouser for inexplicable reasons and now he is outside, trying to incite a violent rally. When students start brawling, Steve switches to his Captain America outfit and tries to calm the rioters. The entire scene is being watched on a remote televiewer by MODOK whose agents have instigated the uprising as a cover for kidnapping Prof. Fosgrave in order to seize his secret atomic equations. The A.I.M. agents capture Fosgrave and Mart is shocked to see they have guns. Cap recognizes the weapons as A.I.M. technology and heads to the rescue, accompanied by Mart Baker. Cap shoots down the enemy copter with their own weapon and saves the professor. Without MODOK’s influence, the campus unrest is calmed and Cap returns to SHIELD HQ. When Fury asks why he didn't stay on as athletic instructor, Cap responds that the job was too tough for an old codger like him.


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The Man Behind the Mask!
Steve Rogers walks the streets of New York, his mind in a turmoil. Though his loved ones are now safe from danger because his identity is a secret once again, he doesn't know who Steve Rogers is any more: his entire adult life has been lived as Captain America; he has never had a life or home of his own. As he approaches Avengers headquarters, he decides to make a break with the past, to start a new life for himself, so he turns and walks away. The Avengers spot him from a window and decide to respect his wishes. Steve decides to visit SHIELD HQ to see Sharon Carter and changes into his Captain America outfit before entering through the barbershop. As he enters, Nick Fury is reviewing a videotaped report from Sharon: she has located an entire cell of A.I.M. leaders and, rather than wait for reinforcements, she is going to try to apprehend them herself. Sharon blasts through the villains’ wall and opens up with her weaponry, but the head man calls for the Walking Stiletto, a huge robot with spiked arms and a death ray. In the nick of time, Cap arrives with Rick Jones to fight off the monster, and the three heroes working together manage to destroy it. As SHIELD arrives, Cap asks Sharon to resign from the service but she can't, the service is her life. Dejected, Cap leaves. Later, Steve uses makeup to change his features and darken his hair and sets out to find a hotel room. It turns out to be a more difficult task than he had figured, since a man without ID or luggage looks suspicious. Eventually he winds up in a seedy side-street hotel, where he ponders his future. Suddenly a strange disorienting sensation strikes him and materializing before him is the Red Skull… once more in possession of the Cosmic Cube.Note: The Avengers appearing are The Vision, the Black Panther, Goliath (Clint Barton), Wasp, Yellowjacket.


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The Hero That Was!
Back in wartime, Captain America and Bucky fight their way into a fortress heavily armed with robot guns to plant an electro-bomb to take out the entire mechanism. They accomplish their objective, then must fight their way out though Nazi guards, on their way to silence the coastal guns to make the D-Day invasion possible. The heroic duo hurls their explosive capsules and… Steve Rogers returns to the present, trying to explain to Nick Fury the troubles of being a man out of his natural time. Fury asks Steve how he became Captain America. Steve’s mind drifts back to his early days: rejected for military service because of his frail health, he is recruited for a dangerous experiment. In a secret lab beneath an innocent-looking antique shop, Steve is given treatments by Professor Reinstein which turns him into a physical marvel. At this point a Nazi spy in the room shoots down Reinstein, destroying the possibility of more super-soldiers. The improved Steve swings into action, knocking the spy into an electrical device which kills him. As Captain America, Steve dedicates himself to battling the forces of tyranny. He pretends to be an incompetent GI as a cover for his heroic activities. When camp mascot Bucky Barnes discovers his secret, Cap enlists him as a partner in his fight for freedom.... Back in the present, Steve feels better for having gotten it all off his chest. As Fury takes his leave, he advises Steve to have some fun… but Steve fears he’s forgotten how.


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The Strange Death of Captain America
Watching a television report on the death of Captain America, Madame Hydra rejoices in her great victory and celebrates by burning his Hydra dossier. She reflects on her origin as a European war orphan, her facial disfigurement, her joining of Hydra and rise through the ranks, and seizure of power in her sector through assassination of her superiors, while lamenting that she can never escape the tyranny of her mirror. Elsewhere, Rick Jones is still coming to terms with the loss of his friend and partner; meeting with the Avengers (Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther, Hawkeye, and the Vision), he is unable to speak through grief. A short time later at a funeral parlor, a memorial service is held for Captain America, a dummy taking the place of his unrecovered body. Nick Fury delivers the final tribute, while a number of friends and coworkers, including Sharon Carter, mourn in silence. Fury and the Avengers remain behind in a vigil after the others have left and are exposed to a sleep gas trap set by Hydra. The captives are placed in coffins and loaded into waiting hearses. Rick Jones, who was unable to attend through grief, finally manages to bring himself to visit the chapel, arriving just in time to see the enemy driving off with the captive heroes. He follows them to a cemetery where they are planning to bury the heroes alive, but Rick is captured by a Hydra agent. Suddenly, a motorcycle roars onto the scene—Captain America lives! Cap and Rick battle the forces of Hydra, and at Cap’s orders, Rick fires a bullet into the motorcycle gas tank, igniting the explosive fuel and killing all the Hydra agents. The sole survivor, Madame Hydra, realizing her life is forfeit as the price of failure, launches hunter missiles at Cap and Rick. Cap pulls Rick into an open grave, the missiles pass overhead and return to their source, destroying the crypt where the villainess was hiding. Cap explains to Rick that his death was part of a scheme to convince the world that Captain America is not Steve Rogers, so he sent an inflatable decoy, dressed in his costume and a Steve mask into the hail of bullets. So now Captain America has a secret identity once more.


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Lest We Forget!
As the report that Captain America is dead, slain by his foes at Hydra, sweeps the nation, Iron Man reviews his friend’s Avengers file. He reads about Cap’s adventures at the beginning of World War II: his teaming with Bucky and their battles against the Red Skull, the Butterfly, the Ringmaster of Evil, the Legion of Beggars, the White Death, and the Toadman. When America entered the War, Cap undertook overseas combat exploits with Bucky, culminating in that fateful mission against Baron Zemo in which Bucky died heroically and Cap was lost to the world for twenty years. Tony remembers how Cap was discovered by the Sub-Mariner and set adrift, rescued by the Avengers, joining them in their struggle against evil and tyranny. Soon Cap linked up with Nick Fury and SHIELD, finding love with Sharon Carter and fighting by her side against MODOK and A.I.M. and the fourth Sleeper, and his contests against Batroc, the Tumbler, the Swordsman and the Living Laser, the Exiles, the Trapster, and Dr. Faustus. Now his heroic career is over. Tony salutes his fallen comrade and vows that he will be avenged.


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Now Begins the Nightmare!
The Red Skull has recovered the Cosmic Cube and now controls the fate of the world. He changes the stunned Steve Rogers into his Captain America gear and demands that the hero pay homage to him. Cap instead leaps up and punches the Skull, only to find the figure before him is an illusion. The real Skull knocks Cap down with a power blast from the Cube and gloats over his defeated foe, pausing to explain how he regained the Cosmic Cube: after it was lost in the ocean, a volcanic eruption cast it up on the shore of a Mediterranean island where it was found by a fisherman, who accidentally discovered its powers and used it to make his village prosper. When reports of this miraculous occurrence reached the Red Skull, he and his Exiles went to the island and seized it from the hapless fisherman. When the Exiles demanded a share of the power and wealth that would come from the Cosmic Cube, the Red Skull used the Cube to exert his superiority over his minions, and now he has his arch-enemy Captain America in his power… Elsewhere, Rick Jones is concerned about Cap’s disappearance; he approaches Sharon Carter but she’s busy and Yellowjacket is unconcerned, so he contacts the Teen Brigade to put the word out to contact the Avengers with any news of the missing hero. Meanwhile, the Red Skull is using his powers to torment Captain America: he sends his foe to a dark dimension where he is beset by reptilian horrors, then drops him for miles before launching him into space for an encounter with a tentacled alien. As Cap struggles with his sanity, the Skull shrinks him and imprisons him in a bottle, then dumps him on the floor. The miniature Cap fights back however, but the Red Skull is struck with a hideous inspiration for revenge. He summons Sharon to the room, and then while she is in a trance, the Skull switches bodies with Cap so that when Sharon awakens, she believes “Cap” has saved her from the “Red Skull.” When the man with the villain’s face insists he is really Captain America, Sharon believes the Red Skull has gone mad and clings to her beloved for protection.


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The Coming of…the Man-Brute!
Professor Silas X. Cragg has a mad, fanatical obsession with Captain America, seeing him everywhere he looks. After researching all that is known of Cap’s origin at the library, he proceeds with his plan to destroy the Star-Spangled Avenger. Cragg has devised a serum similar to the one that gave Cap his powers and plans to use it on a powerful man, who will then be stronger and deadlier than Cap and able to destroy him. In the Bowery he spies a hulking giant of a man whom he interests in his scheme, and takes his subject home. The treatment turns the huge derelict into the powerful Man-Brute, ready and able to kill his costumed quarry. Later, Cragg visits Avengers HQ and tells the heroes that he is seeking Captain America to perform in a charity show at an orphanage. The Avengers pass the invitation along to Steve Rogers and he arrives at the site, only to be attacked immediately by the Man-Brute. Children and reporters believe the fight is part of the show but Cap manages to steer the kids to safety. Cap uses his agility to dodge his muscular foe but the room is too small to allow for his full movement. An orphan named Robert ruses to Cap’s aid, hitting at the Man-Brute, and, to Cap’s surprise, the hulking villain turns and runs away, leaving Cap with the orphans. The Man-Brute returns to Cragg’s home where he turns on his creator, lauding Cap as the bravest man he’s ever known, and describing the brave boy who tried to defend his hero—revealing to Cragg that the spunky kid was his own son! Man-Brute shoves Cragg into the machinery and the madman is electrocuted. The powerful giant vows never to use his deadly strength again. Later, Cap tells Nick Fury how he finally located Cragg’s lair and found the scientist dead and the Man-Brute missing. That evening, Cap goes for a walk in the Bowery meditating on his loneliness and deciding he'll never see the Man-Brute again—unaware he has just walked past his former enemy


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Cap Goes Wild!
Captain America sees a band of costumed gunmen leaving SHIELD headquarters with a stolen strongbox. Cap defeats them in a street melee but not before they pass the strongbox to their confederates in a helicopter. As the police take away the captured thugs, a SHIELD agent approaches Cap and seems oddly calm as he tells the hero that the stolen box contained their newest formulae for Life Model Decoys. The agent accompanies Steve back to his apartment where he reveals the real reason for the contact: he shows Steve a movie produced by a Hollywood company which portrays Captain America and Bucky as savage murderers. Meanwhile inside Red China, scientists are using the stolen SHIELD technology to create a perfect android duplicate of Captain America, and they send it to Hollywood to complete its mission: killing Cap and seizing his costume. At the studios of Infinity Productions, head Cyril Lucas is producing a science-fiction epic with the payoffs from Red China. Though his brother Willie opposes the treasonous scheme, Cyril justifies it as providing the funds for Willie’s lifesaving operation. Captain America heads toward the studios for a meeting with the Lucases, unaware it is a trap. Arriving there, Cap finds the place dark and deserted; suddenly he is attacked by his LMD double. The android’s superior strength quickly puts Cap on the defensive while the Lucas brothers watch from a place of concealment. As it seems the LMD is about to kill Cap, the guilt-ridden Willie rushes out and grabs the android to stop him; the android hurls Willie across the room. Cap gains his second wind and fights back with all his might, shocked when the LMD begins to glow. The creature rushes out into the night and as Cap tries to follow he is stopped by the SHIELD agent, who explains that they let the Red agents steal the formula so that the Reds would test it and find the flaws (which they have). Inside the studio, Cyril stands over his brother’s corpse, regretting his acts of treason and grimly awaiting his employers who have only one price for failure.


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Tomorrow You Live, Tonight I Die!
Steve Rogers is called to a late night meeting with Nick Fury at a penny arcade. While waiting, he tries out a fortune-telling machine and receives the ominous message, “Tomorrow you live, tonight I die!” At this point Hydra agents attack him and Steve realizes it was all a trap, made possible by his lack of a secret identity. Switching into his Captain America gear he defeats his foes and heads off to make sure Rick Jones is safe. Later at Hydra headquarters, Madame Hydra orders the execution of the agent who failed in his mission to kill Captain America. Cap’s training of Rick to take Bucky’s place hits a snag, as Rick is quickly losing confidence in his ability to fill his predecessor’s boots. When a session becomes too difficult, a discouraged Rick decides to take a nap. Thus, later, when a message for Cap is slipped under the door, Cap is gone so Rick opens it and is assaulted by a drug causing him to hallucinate about a menacing Bucky. Two Hydra agents burst in and, realizing they’ve hit the wrong target, take Rick as hostage. Cap returns just in time to intercept the kidnappers. One of the villains manages to drive away with Rick, pausing to gun down his partner to prevent him talking to the authorities. While a captive at Hydra HQ, Rick overhears Madame Hydra theorizing that Cap will return to the arcade for clues and ordering her men to set a trap there. Rick manages to escape and heads out to warn his partner. When Cap arrives at the now-closed arcade, he is attacked by the Mankiller, an armored robot. The fight carries on up to the building’s roof where Cap ends the fight by pressing his shield against his enemy’s chest, causing the miniature missiles therein to explode, destroying the robot. Seeing the building surrounded by Hydra agents and hearing Rick’s warning, Cap leaps from the roof right into a hail of enemy bullets and falls into the river. The police, looking for his body, recover Cap’s bullet-riddled mask and shirt, plus a puzzling item: a mask resembling Steve Rogers. The question now is: who was the real Captain America?


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This Monster Unmasked!
Captain America, frozen in ice for twenty years, is worshipped as an idol by Eskimos until the Sub-Mariner hurls him into the sea. Partially thawed, Cap is discovered and revived by the Avengers and recalls the death of his partner Bucky…until his delirium passes and he finds himself with the Black Panther still a prisoner of Bucky’s killer, Baron Zemo. Zemo has ordered the spy Irma Kruhl (actually Agent Thirteen in disguise) to execute the two heroes to prove her loyalty. She fires and Cap easily dodges; she then distracts Zemo by reminding him of her mission: to deliver the location of every missile base on Earth. While the villain aims his deadly solar ray at the first target, Thirteen reveals a hidden miniature flame thrower and destroys the control panel. Cap and the Panther swing into action and the trio fights their way past the guards in pursuit of Zemo, escaping through a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel is a deadly robot, the Destructon, which Cap manages to defeat after an intense struggle. Zemo and his guards arrive and the villain orders them to fire on the heroes. Cap has a revelation, though: Zemo is an imposter, his mask is not firmly glued on. He is Zemo’s pilot, impersonating his dead master, carrying out his mission. The embittered guards kill the deceiver. The Black Panther persuades the now leaderless mercenaries to surrender. SHIELD shoots down the orbiting death ray, and the heroes return to America, with Captain America proposing the Black Panther take his place in the Avengers.


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No Longer Alone
A lonely, dejected Steve Rogers, walking the streets late at night, stops to look at a huge poster of Captain America when suddenly the Hulk smashes through the wall, pursued by the US Army. Steve changes into his Cap costume and arrives in time to see the Hulk blasted with an ionic energy cannon. Despite Rick Jones’ warning, Cap approaches to see if Jade Jaws is alive and, boy, is he. Cap tries to calm the enraged Hulk and ends up knocking him down. Now Rick goes to Hulk’s aid; Hulk seizes him and hurls a lamppost, destroying the cannon. The shockwave causes a nearby building to collapse. Hulk leaps away and Cap rescues Rick, taking him home to recover from his injuries. On awakening, Rick tries on Bucky Barnes’ costume and volunteers to be Cap’s new partner. Cap, afraid to see another boy die, at first refuses but when the Avenger alarm goes off, they answer it together. In the sewers they discover Madame Hydra leading a team of minions in a plot to contaminate the city’s water supply. Cap battles them as best he can, trying to keep Rick out of harm’s way but in the end, Cap chooses to save Rick from drowning, enabling the villains to escape. Captain America and his new partner head on home.


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The Snares of the Trapster!
As the story opens, Captain America is enjoying a workout designed by Tony Stark for SHIELD: dodging and swatting deadly missiles. His SHIELD keeper appears with an assignment … which Cap doesn't want to take, since he wants a life of his own instead of being on call all the time. He changes his tune quickly when he learns that the mission involves the disappearance of his beloved Sharon Carter, who went missing while delivering important info on Project Fireball. The agent hands Cap the tracker for her homing device and Cap heads out on the trail. Elsewhere, we find Sharon glued to a table, a prisoner of the Trapster, who wants to learn the secret of Project Fireball. At this moment, Cap arrives at the condemned building the homing signal led him to. He knows he’s in the right place when a paste trap goes off, and he also knows who he will be facing. Cap miscalculates and grabs onto a paste-smeared bar. The Trapster appears, taunting the helpless hero—but Captain America is never helpless: he swings, kicking the villain across the room, then breaking the bar and using it as a weapon. The Trapster drops Cap through a trapdoor and glues him to a spinning table, to force Sharon to reveal the secret, but Cap breaks loose from the strangely weak paste and batters his foe. The villain drops a plastic tube over Cap and fills it with paste, and taunting him, reveals that he was hired by the Red Skull to sabotage the SHIELD project. Cap then shocks him by breaking out of the paste and punching his lights out, knocking the baddies into his own paste-pot. When Cap finds Sharon glued to the table he is startled to discover she’s an LMD; the real Sharon was orchestrating everything from behind the scenes, even diluting the Trapster’s paste to aid Cap, as part of a plot to get the villain to reveal his employer’s name. The Trapster has escaped but Cap and Sharon take the time to share a kiss.


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The Falcon Fights On!
The Red Skull, in Captain America’s body, observes events on the isle of the Exiles with a growing irritation that his minions have still not captured Cap in the Red Skull’s body. The Skull then realizes that Cap could have removed the mask and changed his clothes but he still expects the Exiles to corner him on that small island. Where, at that moment, Sam Wilson has his falcon, Redwing, spying on the enemy, in preparation for his and Cap’s action against them. Sam dons his Falcon hero costume and Cap gives him a crash course in the martial arts. Meanwhile, back in New York, the Red Skull is awoken in his downtown hotel room by the invasion of Captain America fans wanting to see their idol. The Skull, to ruin Cap’s reputation, insults the fans and escapes from the hotel. Elsewhere in the city, Rick Jones, believing Cap has rejected him as a partner, tears up his Avengers card and heads off on his own. Simultaneously, at A.I.M. headquarters, the sinister scientists have managed to discover a way to render the Cosmic Cube powerless. Finally, back on the island, Cap and the Falcon tackle the Exiles. Though outnumbered and with Cap’s reflexes a little slow in the Red Skull’s body, they hold their own with the aid of Redwing. When Cadavus trains his murder chair on the heroes, the island’s natives rise up and pelt the villains with stones, driving them off. As the Red Skull watches he decides that the time has come for Captain America to die!


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Snakes & Eagles Pt. 4/4: Into The Snake Pit
Rikki Barnes follows her instincts and breaks into the restricted area of the heli-carrier and finds the answer the a large number of problems. In Washington, D.C. Nick Fury prepares to give the order to attack the city. Captain America boldly enters the room to confront Fury. He's amazed that he could actually become the leader of a racist group. In a desperate attempt to avoid the assault, Cap challenges him to a unarmed combat. Fury accepts.During their battle, Fury tells Cap that he's already given the order to attack the city. Giving up on dipolmacy, Cap frees Falcon and the two super soldiers fight against the Sons of the Serpent. When the tide of battle swings away from the Serpents, Fury grabs a large energy weapon and prepares to shoot Cap from behind. Fury is instead shot and revealed to be an LMD. The sharpshooter that took out the fake Fury was the real Nick Fury. He and Rikki explain to their allies that the real Fury has been held prisoner all along. Fury gives the remaining Serpents the option to surrender. They wisely take it.After the battle is over, Fury explains that he's not responsible for reactivating "Captain America". The last action he performed was signing the order to allow a reprogrammed Steve Rogers to reenter society. At that point he was drugged and placed into the unmarked cell. Whoever is responsible for replacing him with the LMD and reactivating Captain America did so for a reason. At the present time, all they can do is guess.Just then another S.H.I.E.L.D. agent transfers a call to Fury. After a few seconds, he tells Cap that they're going to New York. Galactus has arrived.


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Heroes Reunited Pt. 4/4: Let It Be
Story continued from IRON MAN Vol.2 #12.Rikki Barnes returns to her grandparents house in Philadelphia. When she sees that the windows have been shattered, she rushes inside only to find Dr. Doom waiting for her. He informs the spunky teenager that the world will die in the next 24 hours. From the S.H.I.E.L.D. files he stole, she is an chronal anomaly and somehow the key to saving the world.Captain America appears and asks Doom to explain his actions. Doom complies only because time is limited. The Fantastic Four are currently battling four of the heralds of Galactus (Firelord, Terrax, Plasma, and Air Walker) in Central Park. If they fall, the world will share their fate. Doom, Cap, Rikki, and the Avengers appear and help defeat Galactus' emissaries. Avengers' Mansion: Doom, Pym, Richards, Banner, and Stark gather in a conference room to discuss their options. Doom explains to his intellectual peers that he has been able to make a chronal leap backward three times so far. There will not be a fourth leap as his equipment has been severely damaged and can't risk it. Each time, their efforts to defeat Galactus have failed. This is Earth's final stand. Banner makes the suggestion that they create a device that will overload Galactus' internal energy conversion processes.While the big brains to finish their "ultimate nullifier", the other heroes pass the time as best they can. Cap notices a change in his usually perky sidekick and keeps a close watch on her. In truth, Rikki Barnes is uncharacteristically quiet; she's still haunted by Doom's claim she is a chronal anomaly. Unsure what her role in this is, she walks out to the balcony where she meets the Silver Surfer, Galactus' favorite herald. He has come to warn them that Galactus can't be stopped. Instead of fighting it, they should try to evacuate the planet. Rikki takes offense to his defeatist attitude concerning their efforts. She asks why he doesn't help if he's so concerned about the fate of humanity. The Surfer dismisses her comment as youthful ignorance and returns to Galactus. Rikki isn't through talking and grabs the Surfer's board as he leaves. Having observed this encounter, Cap is still surprised that she'd do something this impulsive. Hopping aboard a flying motorcycle, he chases after them, imploring Rikki to drop off. Galactus observes this and takes offense at any creature touching his property. He strikes Rikki with bolts of energy originating from his eyes, hitting her full force. She releases her grip and plunges into the water like a rock. Cap dives in after her. Galactus instructs his herald to continue the preparations. The Surfer is particularly struck by what just transpired.Back inside Avenger's Manion, Cap returns with a wounded Rikki Barnes. While the other Avengers promise to get her immediate medical attention, Cap turns his anger toward Galactus. Richards explains that their weapon will work, but the one who wields it, must be able to survive the process. While the most powerful heroes volunteer, the Silver Surfer appears and tells them that he will help them defeat his master.The heroes return to the Baxter Building where they chanel their power through Thor's hammer Mjolnir to the ultimate nullifier. The Surfer attacks Galactus and disintegrates his corporeal form. The process kills the Silver Surfer as well.Days later, Cap arrives in Arlington to pay his respects to Abraham Wilson. He hopes that he has honored the sacrifice Wilson made. Minutes later Nick Fury appears with Richard and Peggy Barnes, Rikki's grandparents. They inform Cap that Rikki will make a full recovery. Fury pulls Cap aside and makes a small confession. The story about his disagreement with the President was a lie fabricated to get him back into costume. Cap states that he knew all along and rides away on his motorcycle.


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Soldiers
While searching for clues to the location of his mentor Blacquesmith, Cable inadvertently triggers a temporal device that sends him into the Heroes Reborn universe. He appears at the side of Captain America and he prepares to battle Baron Zemo, MODOK, and squad of AIM agents that have taken over the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.After a few minutes, Rikki Barnes joins the battle. Cable determines that she must be the new Bucky. He then telepathically knocks out MODOK and watches Cap fight through the AIM agents toward Zemo. Cable performs a brief telepathic scan and learns - much to his surprise - that this is the real Captain America, not an alternate-world version as he originally thought.Before Cable can actually have a real conversation with the displaced hero, Blacquesmith's machines unexpectedly pull him back to the proper reality.


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Serpents & Eagles Pt. 3/4: Capital Punishment
Captain America reaches Washington DC and meets with Sam Wilson. Thanks to the emergency blood transfusion, Sam Wilson has gained a small portion of the super-solider serum and has become a super-hero code-named Falcon. He sends him on a mission to find the Sons of the Serpent HQ.Cap arranges to meet Nick Fury at the Lincoln Memorial. They discuss the advanced technology that the Sons of the Serpent have and how they are being armed by someone in the Federal government. Fury promises that S.H.I.E.L.D. is looking into this. He also mentions an assault on their local headquarters that will occur tonight. Cap tells Fury that he will be joining them, like it or not.Before that night's mission, he meets with Rikki Barnes and Sam Wilson. Rikki has noticed that something seems off with the S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel; Cap advises her to trust her instincts and investigate. Once the squad is assembled, their mission beings. Cap's instincts tell him something is wrong and begins questioning the agents. Before he can explain himself, they are caught in an ambush. After a bloody fight, only two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents manage to escape. When they describe the outcome to Nick Fury, they report that Captain America is missing, presumed dead. Fury promises to avenge the death of Captain America.Fury then uses one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying cars to carry him to a meeting. Unknown to anyone, Cap escaped the explosion, and is tagging along in the trunk. When he reaches the building, he climbs to the roof and look in on a Serpents' meeting. He learns that Falcon has been captured by the Sons of the Serpent and that the Serpent King is actually ... Nick Fury.


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World War 3, Part 4: War without End...
Continued from IRON MAN Vol.2 #13Captain America leads the remaining superheroes and the American military in their assault on Latveria. Their attack is coordinated with Mr. Fantastic's mission into the Negative Zone to destroy both halves of Dr. Doom's inter-dimensional lock that has merged two universes. In this combined universe, Dr. Doom has risen to power with the help of the alien races known as the Daemonites and Skrulls.Helspont and the Skrull High Emissary observe the battle outside Doom's castle. Doom is absent since he decided to personally defend the Negative Zone half of the inter-dimensional lock from Richards. In his absence the alien generals are caught by surprise at the resolve and number of soldiers that participated in this campaign. Thinking that they may be defeated, they decide to release the Elementrons against the opposing side.The Elementrons consist of Hulk, Namor, Human Torch, and Rainmaker. They have each been fused with a Daemonite and further altered by Doom until they became completely mindless engines of destruction. They attack their former allies without remorse and kill Gorgon, and Warblade. The heroes react in the same fashion. Hulk is killed by Maul (who subsequently dies when he grows too big), Grunge kills Rainmaker, Namor and Thing manage to kill each other, and the Human Torch is killed by his own sister in an effort to save Zealot.Inside the Negative Zone, Spartan-America and Scarlet Witch arrive at the dimensional lock while the rest of their team holds off Doom and his Daemonite/Skrull army. Spartan-America sacrifices himself to destroy one-half of the lock.In Latveria, Captain America and Deathblow arrive at the other half of the lock. They find that the portal to the Negative Zone is open and protected by Helspont. Deathblow lunges at him and takes him into the Negative Zone. The Invisible Woman arrives in a state of shock and tricks Cap into lowering his defenses. She shoots him in the chest with an energy weapon and then shape-shifts back to the Skrull High Emissary. Cap desperately throws his shield at the Skrull, succeeding in driving him into the Negative Zone. The dying solider crawls toward the machinery but is unable to complete his mission. He is found by Rick Jones who uses his last grenade to destroy Doom's machines. Cap congratulates him on winning the war.Inside the Negative Zone, Doom and Richards watch as the fused world begins to come apart. Richards is elated that this nightmare is finally over. Doom promises that he will never forget that he actually bested Richards and vows to try again at his next opportunity.


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Serpents & Eagles Part 1/4: A First Small Hisssss
Steve Rogers informs Rikki Barnes that he will be on an extended leave. He plans to travel the country and try to find a connection with modern-day America. If he can find it, he will resume his duties as Captain America. If not he'll deal with that when the time comes. For now she is to remain behind on the S.H.I.E.L.D. heli-carrier.His first stop on his motorcycle tour is Mexia, TX. He encounters a police roadblock with television cameras. Sargent Jake Wang reluctantly tells him that a local militia called "Sons of the Serpent" is stockpiling high-tech weapons. When Federal agents came around to ask questions, several of them were killed. The police are trying to protect the citizens from the imminent showdown between the groups.When a small group of the militia take hostages in a diner, Rogers finds a private spot, and puts on his costume. Within minutes the hostage situation is resolved; all of the militia members are unconscious.Once outside, Wang meets up with Cap and takes him to the serpent compound on request. Cap asks to speak to the leader of the compound, hoping to resolve this without additional violence. His pleas for reason fall on deaf and bigoted ears. They make their getaway using highly advanced ships. Cap is able to bring down a single ship, but the rest escape.Cap promises to get to the bottom of this.


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Fire
Rikki Barnes breaks into the headquarters of the World Party looking for her misguided brother John. She overhears some of the mercenaries state that Captain America was captured and brought back here. While looking around, she is found by John and his friend Gus, who threaten to kill her. She barely escapes and literally runs into the Red Skull.Below in a holding cell, Cap and Sam Wilson are chained to the wall. Cap tells Wilson that he'll do everything he can to ensure his father's life was not sacrificed in vain. Wilson won't hear any of it. The Red Skull enters with his shield to taunt him. He offers Cap a place in his new world order. Cap refuses and frees himself from his shackles and regains his shield. At this point Master Man enters the cell and stages a coup. He states that nobody will leave this room alive, including The Skull, who is no longer relevant to their objectives. He states that he alone is responsible for the success of the World Party. He has shown up The Skull in every possible way including locating the shield and the shield bearer, something that The Skull was unable to do.Upon hearing his confession, Wilson challenges Master Man for causing his father's death. He is shot in retaliation.Rikki Barnes awakens and finds herself tied to a nuclear missile with the countdown sequence started.


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Crossroads
Nick Fury and Valentina de la Fontaine are brought into the Oval Office. The President has called them in because he wants to know the true facts behind the legend of Captain America.They explain to the Commander-In-Chief how Captain America came to be. Initially labeled unfit for military service because of his frail physique, a scientist responded to his earnest desire to serve his country in some capacity. Subjecting him to a serum designed for strength augmentation, Rogers was transformed into a human in peak physical condition, unlike other test subjects. After further training he was code-named "Captain America" and used to combat the Nazi menace both home and abroad.Fury then admits that following the disagreement with Truman over the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, they felt that they were forced to take drastic action. Putting him in a form of suspended animation, they would bring him out for specific military purposes and alter his memories. Something would eventually cause this to unravel and he'd go back into cryo-freeze.
A few years ago they thawed him out, reprogrammed him, and game him a family. When they learned that the Red Skull had resurfaced, they enabled the "Captain America" portions of his memory.At this point, the man of the hour arrives. The President acknowledges that Cap called the meeting, which prompted his request for the full uncensored history. Cap explains that he's remembered more about his life than in previous "lives" he's lived. He states that his life has been ruined for political reasons he doesn't fully understand.Because of this he is resigning his commission in S.H.I.E.L.D. as his allegiance lies with the country, not the government. He tells Fury that either he will be allowed to have his own life or he will go public with the full story of Captain America, dirty secrets and all.With the full support of the President behind Cap, Fury has little choice but to comply. Cap leaves the Oval Office and sets out to reconnect with the country.


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Serpents & Eagles Pt. 2/4: Horror For Hollywood
Cap's pursuit of the Sons of the Serpent leads him from Texas to Arizona to Hollywood, California. After he helps capture a gang of Serpents, the local police force arrives to arrest them. While the Serpents are being loaded into the van, Cap is able to discuss the recent actions of the militia with Detective O'Brian. O'Brian knows that there is one person that gives the orders, but they can't figure out how it is or how he's doing it. Cap asks for a few minutes alone with one of the prisoners. After some aggressive interrogation (in the La Brea Tar Pits), Cap learns of a nearby weapons depot. He arrives too late to prevent their mission, but learns that they plan to kill key figures in Hollywood to symbolically strike back against the glamorization of declining American morals. Also he learns that someone in the Federal government is providing them with their weaponry. He arrives at the target area, saves the Hollywood elite, and captures the squad of domestic terrorists.Back at police headquarters, O'Brian has been unable to get any useful information out of the prisoners. They all have a very limited knowledge of the plans of their leader, the Serpent King, who provides everything on a need-to-know basis.Reports being pouring in detailing violent actions against minorities in seventeen states, pushing the death toll over 300. The Serpent King broadcasts his agenda to the country: purge the country of all impurities. If half the country must be scarified to achieve this goal, so be it.Cap heads for Washington, D.C. to get to the bottom of this once and for all.


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Patriotism
1945, The Oval Office. Captain America meets with President Harry Truman following the victory in Germany. He informs Cap that due to the expected loss of life needed to win the war against Japan, they have dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima. He knows that the American public will have difficulty accepting this and orders Cap to address the nation in support of this plan. Cap respectfully declines and leaves with the intention of going public with this information. Truman asks his adviser General Ross what can be done. He introduces the President to Sergeant Nick Fury, newly-appointed leader of S.H.I.E.L.D., who promises to make the problem go away.Now: Fury concludes his tale of Cap's past. Borrowing a plan from Hitler called "Operation: Sleeper", S.H.I.E.L.D. was able to alter his memories temporarily, making him forget he was Captain America. When his memories returned, he would be reprogrammed and assigned a new job. The super-soldier serum in his bloodstream kept him young, making it easier to fit him into new lives.Fury offers him a choice: get reprogrammed and start a new life or resume his duties as Captain America. Rogers chooses the latter. He is given a new costume and membership to and exclusive club: The Avengers.Later on, Cap arrives in Arlington National Cemetery and pays his respects to Abraham Wilson. At the grave is Wilson's son Sam. When Cap attempts to offer his condolences, Wilson snaps at him, blaming him for his father's death. Before Cap can explain himself, he is attacked and battered unconscious by another agent of the Red Skull - Crossbones.


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First Gleaming
Captain America is fighting Cobra and
Mr Hyde when he is interrupted by Iron Man, showing him the remnants
of his original shield, accidentally shattered by Rhodey (James Rhodes) after he
retrieved it from the ocean....
Elsewhere, Kang the Conqueror wishes to
enter into an alliance with the new Red Skull, with the Cosmic Cube
now internalized. Kang reveals that Captain America was responsible
for the Skull's imprisonment in the Cube. Kang also tells of an
ancient bit of knowledge that will give the Skull godlike power—and
also serve Kang some 2000 years hence....
Sharon Carter shows Steve Rogers the
capabilities of his new force-shield: it can take on the forms of a
staff or blade. This does not distract Steve from his loss of his
original shield. Steve and Sharon go to a meeting with the Ramirez
family. They have their apartment back because it was discovered
their son Javier is a legal genius; he sued the landlord and he now
has a job as clerk at a law firm and they thank Steve and Sharon.
While at the law office, attorney Connie Ferrari flirts with Steve,
making Sharon jealous....
Returning to Steve's apartment, they
find The Watcher there. He point them to an open door and looking
through they see the Red Skull in all his power standing in a void.
The Skull wraps them in the distorted floor boards of the apartment,
he boasts of his power, dismissing them with a nod and takes off. Cap
and Sharon question The Watcher who gives them a vision of a dismal
future, one in which the Red Skull holds full power and every US
citizen a slave. There is also a vision of all the world's heroes,
the Avengers, FF and more, crucified on the steps of the Capitol on
Washington D.C.--including Sharon. The Watcher then shows them that
all this will take place in less than a day—and it's Captain
America who is responsible for it....


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Live Kree or Die! Chapter Two: Stuck in the Middle
This story follows from IRON MAN (1998) #7The Lunatic Legion – an extremist Kree military group -- have declared war on Earth – and specifically the Avengers. They mistakenly blame them for detonating the bomb that destroyed their homeworld. Their first battle was against Iron Man and Warbird. They were unable to stop the Legion from acquiring an experimental power source that would further their plans. Warbird abandoned Iron Man to pursue the Lunatic Legion while they were escaping, leaving him to evacuate civilians.
In Brooklyn, Captain America stops two criminals trying to loot the headquarters of Congressional Candidate Andrew Bolt and then burn it to the ground. Bolt received the Skrull imposters support only to have his campaign abruptly halted when the truth was revealed. Cap delays them just long enough until the fire department arrives and extinguishes the fire.
Bolt arrives on the scene and is met by Cap. He explains that he will be unable to continue his campaign due to the actions of the Skrull impersonator. Cap then apologizes for his doppleganger ruining Bolt's career.
His conversation is interrupted when Warbird contacts him over Avengers' Identicard. She is being attacked by the Lunatic Legion in an abandoned missle silo near Cape Canaveral. As he leaves, he encourages Bolt to stay in the race.
Moments after she ends her transmission, Warbird is rendered unconscious by the Lunatic Legion. They decide that she would be of use in their experiments on human exposure to the Inhumans' Terrigen Mists. They hope that her Kree/human genetic structure will enable them to transform humanity into a race of slaves.
Warbird awakens during another experiment but is unable to stop the process or free herself. At this point Cap burts through the door and frees everyone. He was able to pinpoint her location through the Identicard. Once everyone has been evacuated from the room, Warbird updates Cap on the situation. She also admits that she has not contacted the other Avengers, much to Cap's dismay. The Kree have jammed all outgoing signals, preventing them from calling in reinforcements. With little choice Cap and Warbird begin to fight their way out of the compound.
In Los Angeles, General Ulysses Chapman unexpectedly divulges the complete mission parameters to remove a dictator in Moldavia during a live interview. The Pentagon is unable to abort the mission in time.
Cape Canaveral: While fighting their way out of the Kree compound, Cap's shield is heavily damaged by Legion member Byon Char. One punch from Char sends Cap flying into a separate building where the bodies of the dead test subjects are stored. He is horrified at this discovery and is reminded of the mass graves he saw during World War II. When Char comes in to finish him, he finds an angry Captain America waiting for him.
He quickly defeats him and rejoins Warbird, who points out that the Legion are preparing to leave. Cap tells her to let them and help evacuate everyone else. When she protests, Cap tells her that her behavior is unacceptable. She didn't call in the other Avengers because she was trying to prove herself to him. She's not fit for duty as an Avenger if she refuses to work with her teammates; her power fluctuations (which she believes to be the reason he disapproves of her) is irrelevant.
Despite his honest assessment (and subsequent protests), Warbird still pursues the Legion leaving Cap to evacuate the civilians. She is quickly captured by the Lunatic Legion – as was their plan all along. They decide to begin experimenting on her back at their moon base.
Continued in QUICKSILVER #10.


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Museum Piece
At Avengers Mansion, Tony Stark creates a new shield for Cap to use until his original can be retreived from the Atlantic Ocean. Initial tests do not go well and Cap has trouble adapting to the new model.
As he leaves he is swarmed by an ever-increasing number of fans. Their attention approaches on idol worship and continues to make him uncomfortable. He passes an electronics store and learns that Hydra has taken over the Smithsonian Museum. They are calling out Captain America in the hopes of gaining revenge on him for stopping their previous attack.
Cap arrives and navigates through the gauntlet they have prepared for him and finds two school children that remained behind when the building was evacuated. During a critical fight with Hydra, he loses his new shield and is wounded. He grabs a museum replica of his original triangular shield and is able to eventually overpower the remaining terrorists. As a token of their appreciation, the Smithsonian gives him the shield. Cap thanks them and comments on the familiarity of this particular shield.
Once outside Cap addresses the press and announces that he is declaring war on Hydra for their constant attacks. He will not stop until they have been eradicated.
From their hidden base, the new Hydra leader – calling himself The Sensational Hydra – begins to plan his next attack. This one involves Batroc the Leaper.


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Twisted Tomorrows: Part 1 of 3
A fugitive runs through an Idaho
woodland pursued by uniformed guards with ferocious dogs; this runner
is revealed to be Nick Fury and he is caught by his pursuers before
he can reach his SHIELD GPS hidden in a tree stump. Fury is taken
back to the guards' unnamed Master....
In New York, a gang of terrorists are
holding hostages in a restaurant. Captain America, alerted to the
situation, rides his motorcycle through the restaurant's entrance and
quickly takes down the bad guys. The rescued patrons are grateful,
and one of them, an elderly man named Stanley Klein, saw Cap during
the War—and Cap remembers him. There is a brief moment of sorrow
when Klein mentions Bucky but Cap recovers quickly. Outside the
police detective in charge is likewise grateful and offers to repair
the damage to his cycle. Cap takes the rooftop route back to Avengers
Mansion but realizes he is being followed. He doubles back and
confronts his pursuers, who turn out to be three young SHIELD agents,
Corbin, Pyle, and Billups. They are nervous in Cap's presence so Cap
talks directly to their commander Dum Dum Dugan over the radio. Dugan
tells Cap he is not under arrest but is wanted at SHIELD HQ....
At SHIELD HQ, Cap finds his former
partner the Falcon there. Dugan fills them in: a white supremacist
group has kidnapped General McAllister Groves, an African America
serviceman, and used his ID card to get into a top-secret facility
and steal a deadly load of anthrax. Nick Fury (presumed dead at this
point) went in undercover and has been captured. SHIELD needs Cap and
the Falcon to go in....
Interlude 1: Sharon Carter and Turkish
Secret Service Director Mehmet Kemel, who has been transformed into
an ankylosaurus (don't believe me? See issue #21), hijacks a plane
and heads out of Turkey....
Interlude 2: The three young SHIELD
agents, Corbin, Pyle, and Billups, who flubbed their assignment to
find Cap, are reassigned to catalog an enormous warehouse of stuff
accumulated by the US Government since World War 1....
In Idaho, Cap and Falcon are undercover
as a couple of fishermen; Sam keeps annoying Steve by talking about
Sharon and Connie Ferrari. Suddenly their boat is capsized by Nazi
divers but the two heroes quickly change into their costumes and make
short work of the team of divers. Then a pair of helicopters open
fire on them; each hero takes down one craft—then a gas bomb is
detonated. As Cap and Falcon succumb to the knockout gas, the enemy
leader comes forward—the Hate Monger....
2. “Fast Lane Part 2: Feel the Rush”
Writer: Glenn Herdling. Pencils: Gregg
Schigiel. Inks: Richard Case. Colors: Paul Mounts.
Synopsis: An anti-drug public service
announcement featuring Spider-Man appearing in several Marvel comics
this month.


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Power And Glory Chapter Two: Expose
While the Skrull commander continues his impersonation of Captain America, the real Cap tries to escape from the alien handcuffs he was placed in (last issue). They have so far proven to be adaptive to intense heat and electricity.
Later on in the day, Skrull-Cap saves the President from two terrorists. He then arranges for a press conference to make a special announcement. Prior to the conference, Skrull-Cap meets with Congressional candidate Andrew Bolt and gives his public endorsement.
Cap eventually frees himself from the Skrull handcuffs and makes his way to the press conference.
During Skrull-Cap's press conference, he states that they have been invaded by aliens and that 1 in every 20 Americans is a Skrull masquerading as a human. As proof of his theory he points out his comrades and somehow forces them to return to their normal forms. They are soon killed by armed security guards. Skrull-Cap encouraging average Americans to attack anyone that looks different. The city explodes with multiple, random acts of violence.
The real Cap arrives, unaware of what his doppelganger has done. When they encounter each other, Cap soon learns of the alien's master plan to use his reputation to turn American against each other.
As the Skrull escapes, Cap looks out the window at the alien's handiwork. New York – as well as the rest of the country - has erupted in mob violence.


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Capmania
Captain America teams up with Hawkeye to stop a Hydra agent from unleashing a nerve gas in Times Square. Once the threat has passed, Cap's adoring fans swarm him for autographs, which continue to embarrass him. Among the crowd is Congressional candidate Andrew Bolt, asking Cap for his endorsement. Cap politely declines stating that he doesn't publicly support any politician, but wishes him the best of luck.
Back at Avengers' Mansion, Cap complains to Hawkeye that he is unable to go anywhere without being mobbed by the public. He's accustomed to being popular, but this is more than he can handle. Hawkeye suggests that they leave the masks behind and grab a burger as "Steve" and "Clint". This does not stop Clint from tormenting Steve by purchasing several Captain America items and going on camera to tell exaggerated stories about his (Cap's) accomplishments.
Elsewhere Sharon Carter has rejoined S.H.I.E.L.D. In an effort to discover why she was abandoned by them so many years ago. (Sharon "died" in Cap Vol. 1 #237. She returned in issue #445 and life in exile was explained in #454). She soon discovers that the body of recently interred Nick Fury (Over The Edge: Omega) has been transferred to a cryogenics facility. (This story is continued in Fury/Agent 13 limited series)
Back in New York, Clint has finished up his round of accolades for Captain America. As they part ways, Clint admits that despite the grandstanding actions, Steve deserves all of this attention. Steve wanders around thinking about his role in current society when Batroc makes his appearance and calls out Captain America. Back at Hydra headquarters, the Sensational Hydra, watches the proceedings aware of the outcome; it's part of his plan.
Steve puts on his costume and initially refuses to fight Batroc. When Batroc attacks, Hawkeye appears after hearing the commotion to defend his teammate. Batroc takes out Hawkeye quickly leaving only the reluctant Cap to stop him. During the fight, Batroc reveals that while Hydra paid him to take a fall, he refuses to do so for a worthy opponent like him. Cap ultimately defeats Batroc, causing him to retreat. When Cap begins complaining that this battle served no real purpose, Hawkeye reminds him that even small things like this can inspire people. With this Cap begins to accept his role.
On Skull Island, the shadow-being that was once the Red Skull appears, burning the skin off the remaining guards as a sign of his return.


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The Difference!
Captain America on a motorcycle crashes
into a Hydra hideout where they are holding SHIELD Agent Whedon
prisoner. Cap defeats the Hydra Agents and learns from Whedon that
they were planning to bomb the UN Peace Initiative. Dum Dum Dugan and
more SHIELD Agents arrive to clean up matters, the Initiative having
been canceled and the delegates sent back to Embassy Row. From the
baddies' confidence, Cap suspects that Embassy Row was the target all
along and departs....
Reaching a rooftop where he can keep
watch over Embassy Row, Cap encounters Crossbones, hired by Hydra to
bomb the neighborhood. Crossbones also introduces his
assistant—Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man, disguised as a brick
chimney. 'Bones leaves Cap in Creel's hands and goes to set the bomb.
Cap dodges and dances around his foe and manages to wreck his
wrecking ball; Creel responds by turning to steel and doubling his
efforts to kill the hero. Cap topples him with judo and holds his
shield to the villain's throat; Creel grabs hold of some wires and
becomes a being of electricity. Cap topples a water tank on him which
takes a lot of fight out of Creel. He tries to absorb Cap's shield
but Cap turns in time for the baddie to touch his bare shoulder,
turning the Absorbing Man into a normal human who can be flattened
with a punch from Cap....
Cap catches up to where Crossbones is
priming the bomb to go off and they spar with 'Bones explaining how
he is an artist of murder and terror. Cap also learns that the bomb,
once primed, cannot be defused—and that Creel doesn't know he is a
party to mass murder, thinking this is all for a heist. As the bomb
is nearing detonation, Crossbones escapes as the angry Crusher Creel
returns to battle Captain America. Cap tries to explain about the
bomb but doesn't know if he is getting through to Creel—until Creel
touches Cap's shield. Having absorbed the unique alloy of Vibranium,
he enfolds the bomb in a bear hug and it explodes harmlessly. Creel,
unharmed, turns into vapor and blows away, intending to avenge
himself against Crossbones and Hydra. And Cap realizes that one man
can always make a difference.


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The Return of Steve Rogers, Captain America
Our story opens in Tokyo, Japan. American culture has taken root in this country. While many citizens are thrilled to be able to wear American fashions and eat fast food, there are those that prefer Japan remove this influence from their culture.At an American-themed restaurant named "Uncle Sammy's", Japanese terrorists known as Strikeforce Ukiyoe have taken over the establishment. The leader identified as Akutagawa announces that the American influence is corrupting their culture and all they have struggled to achieve will be lost if decisive actions are not taken. They are prepared to do what is necessary to purge the American influence from their country. When they attempt to burn the American flag in protest, a familiar red-and-white shield flies across the restaurant and knocks the terrorist unconscious. It careens off three others before returning to its owner - Captain America.Akutagawa is shocked at this development as are the customers who flock around a very confused Cap. The terrorists use this to their advantage and leave the building, stating that he'll die tonight. When Cap makes his way outside, they have disappeared into the crowd. When he tries to enlist the help of local authorities they assume it is part of tonight's celebration and humor his report.Frustrated, Cap begins to familiarize himself with his surroundings. He's aware he's in Tokyo, but his last memories were of fighting Onslaught in Central Park. He claims that this was "yesterday". He struggles trying to read magazines and newspapers as his Japanese is very limited. He eventually stumbles on a picture that explains (in part) the event that Akutagawa mentioned. Cap just misses a televised interview with the Fantastic Four explaining that he (Cap), Iron Man, and Thor have been classified as Missing In Action following the battle with Onslaught.Osamu Akutagawa meets with Lady Deathstrike to recruit her for his cause. When asked, he explains that Masao Hashikura's uncompromising stance against Westernization was his biggest influence. Hashikura and his followers in the Haru Society committed ritual suicide in public to protest Japan's new pro-Western direction. Lady Deathstrike explains that a recent possession by an ancient spirit reminded her of the importance of honor. She then corrects his story. Not all of Hashikura's followers went through with the suicide; he did not. Akutagawa admits his cowardice and explains that he began this group to make amends for this failure. He explains that their first campaign would have been successful if not for Captain America's involvement. Authorities think this was part of a publicity stunt for tonight's event and do not take it seriously. Deathstrike is surprised to hear about this and suggests that they turn this to their advantage by using tonight's event to cover their activities.Later that day, in an effort to avoid being surrounded by curious citizens, Cap purchases an overcoat capable of covering his costume and removes his mask. Walking around the streets as Steve Rogers, he discovers a giant Cap statue in front of a movie theater. This confirms what he saw on the magazine cover earlier: tonight is the premiere of a big-budget movie based on his life. He now understands why Akutagawa hates his very presence. The palpable excitement surrounding "Capmania" makes Rogers squirm. He is uncomfortable with the celebrity surrounding his alter ego. The various Cap-products annoy him as he feels Captain America should be a symbol of freedom not monetary gain. His discomfort ends when he sees disguised members of Strikeforce Ukiyoe make their way into the theater using false movie credentials.Once inside Strikeforce Ukiyoe make preparations to lock all the doors and release a nerve gas into the unsuspecting crowd. Cap makes his way inside and stops them but is attacked by Lady Deathstrike. Their fight becomes public and while he maneuvers her into destroying the relays on the canisters of nerve gas, the crowd is still unable to leave. The movie plays while Cap and Deathstrike continue to fight. Since the movie was recorded in English, Cap finally learns that he disappeared over a year ago. Despite the shock at this revelation, Cap eventually defeats Lady Deathstrike by pinning her under a lighting rig.From the catwalk, Akutagawa announces that his preparations are complete and he is ready to go through with their plan and kill everyone in the theater. Cap sees an unlocked door near Akutagawa's position and realizes that he plans to escape after he releases the gas. He throws his shield into the door handle, barring his escape. Cap then calls his bluff. Despite his insistence, Akutagawa breaks down and can't go through with the plan. Later when the authorities have arrested Strikeforce Ukiyoe, Lady Deathstrike is noticeably absent. After interviewing Cap, the reporter - who knows that this is the genuine article - asks his audience how this elevation from hero to idol will affect him. Istanbul: Sharon Carter (once again Agent 13) completes a mission and learns that Rogers is alive again. Her emotions are ... conflicting. She decides to book a flight to New York for some answers.Wisconsin: A shadowy figure that represents the remains of the Red Skull peels himself off the wall and leaves the facility.In an undisclosed location, Kang the Conqueror witnesses the return of Captain America and prepares his latest scheme against him and the Avengers.