{"id":515,"date":"2007-03-07T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T22:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2007-03-07T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T22:53:26","slug":"captain-america-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/captain-america-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain America: Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Superman, then Batman. Now Captain America. He’s dead. Marvel killed him. Can’t wait for him to come back…
\n\"captamer.jpg\"
\nRead more after the jump.
\nVia Gary
\nCaptain America has undertaken his last mission \u2014 at least for now.<\/strong> by the AP
\nThe venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported. On the new edition’s pages, a sniper shoots down the shield-wielding hero as he leaves a courthouse.
\nIt ends a long run for the stars-and-stripes-wearing character, created in 1941. Over the years, some 210 million copies of Captain America comic books, published by New York-based Marvel Entertainment Inc., have been sold in 75 countries.
\nBut resurrections are not unknown in the world of comics, and Marvel Entertainment Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada said a Captain America comeback wasn’t impossible.
\nStill, the character’s death came as a blow to co-creator Joe Simon.
\n“We really need him now,” said Simon, 93, who worked with artist Jack Kirby to devise Captain America as a foe for Adolf Hitler.
\nThe superhero was spawned when a scrawny arts student named Steve Rogers, ineligible for the army because of his poor health but eager to serve his country, agreed to a “Super Soldier Serum” injection. The substance made him a paragon of physical perfection, armed only with his shield, his strength, his smarts and a command of martial arts.
\nIn the comic-book universe, death is not always final. But even if Captain America turns out to have met his end in print, he may not disappear entirely: Marvel is developing a Captain America movie.<\/strong>
\nCaptain America Is Dead; National Hero Since 1941<\/strong> by George Gene Gustines (NY Times)
\nCaptain America, a Marvel Entertainment superhero, is fatally shot by a sniper in the 25th issue of his eponymous comic, which arrived in stores yesterday. The assassination ends the sentinel of liberty\u2019s fight for right, which began in 1941.
\nThe last episode in Captain America\u2019s life comes after the events of \u201cCivil War,\u201d a seven-issue mini-series that has affected nearly the entire line of Marvel\u2019s library of titles. In \u201cCivil War,\u201d the government began requiring superheroes to register their services, and it outlawed vigilantism after supervillains and superheroes fought during a reality show, accidentally killing hundreds of civilians. The public likened the heroes to weapons of mass destruction that must be controlled.
\nThe registration act polarized the superhero community. Captain America (whose true identity was Steve Rogers) considered the legislation an erosion of civil liberties; Iron Man, on the other side, believed that training heroes as the military, firefighters or the police are trained would only benefit society. When the factions came to blows and caused more destruction, Captain America chose to fight his battle in court.
\nBut in the current issue of his title, Captain America takes bullets in the shoulder and stomach while on the courthouse steps. The assassin is alleged to be Sharon Carter, an intelligence agent romantically involved with Captain America. She was apparently under the control of Dr. Faustus, a supervillain. \u201cIt seemed a little radical when it was first brought up,\u201d said Dan Buckley, the president and publisher of Marvel Entertainment, about the hero\u2019s death. \u201cBut sometimes stories just take you places.\u201d
\n\u201cWe as publishers and as creative people knew where the ending was going to go for a long time,\u201d he said. \u201cWe knew people might not like it, but I think we delivered a compelling story that made everyone think.\u201d
\nHe added: \u201cThe stories we have planned dealing with Cap\u2019s death are really compelling too.\u201d
\nThis is not Captain America\u2019s first brush with death. Toward the end of World War II he plunged into the ocean during a flight on an experimental plane, and he was presumed killed in action. Actually, he was encased in ice and in a state of suspended animation. Many years later he was discovered by the superhero group the Avengers and thawed out to continue his career.
\nMore recently, Bucky, the Captain\u2019s wartime partner \u2014 who was thought killed by an explosion as he tried to defuse a bomb \u2014 was revealed to be alive. Bucky was saved by Soviet forces, who put him on ice and thawed him for their own missions. Captain America broke the Soviet hold on Bucky, and the two had a brief reunion. Bucky, who has taken on the name the Winter Soldier, is now on a quest to redeem his actions.
\nSo is this the end of Captain America? \u201cHe\u2019s very dead right now,\u201d Mr. Buckley said.
\nStill, these are comic books, where characters have a history of dying and returning. Most famously, DC published \u201cThe Death of Superman\u201d in November 1992. That comic was a best seller, but the Man of Steel eventually returned to the land of the living in August 1993.
\nFans on newsarama.com, a Web site devoted to comic book news, quickly posted their reactions to Captain America\u2019s death. They ranged from a cynical \u201cYeah, right!\u201d and \u201cI know it\u2019s temporary\u201d to the more media-savvy: \u201cI\u2019m fairly sure killing Cap with a movie in development (plus a possible Avengers flick on the way as well) would not be very sensible. So, I shall wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Superman, then Batman. Now Captain America. He’s dead. Marvel killed him. Can’t wait for him to come back… Read more after the jump. Via Gary Captain America has undertaken his last mission \u2014 at least for now. by the AP The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[109,135,162],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-captainamerica","tag-comics","tag-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}