New York – Captain America is dead! Assassinated, in fact, as he walks into a federal courthouse in New York, under arrest and in handcuffs, headed to his arraignment for refusing to sign the government’s Superhero Registration Act and forcibly revealing his true identity.
It all happens in the latest edition of Marvel Comics, which hit newsstands Wednesday.
What does this mean? Can the pulverizing patriot really be dead, shot down on the courthouse steps after 66 years of battling villains from Adolf Hitler to the Red Skull? Will the killer or killers be captured? The only way to find out, says Dan Buckley, president and publisher of Marvel Entertainment, is to “read the book” as the story line unfolds.
Buckley will not divulge details of what he describes as “really cool plot twists,” but he does not rule out the possibility that Captain America is not really dead or is somehow resurrected.
“When you live in a world of make-believe, a lot of things are possible,” he said in a telephone interview.
