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Comic-book veteran Captain America fights his last good fight

VITO PILIECI, CanWest News Service
Published: Thursday, March 08, 2007

After 66 years of protecting the American way of life, Captain America has met his end.

The Sentinel of Liberty is assassinated by a sniper in the latest edition of his monthly Captain America comic. The comic hit store shelves yesterday.

In a posting on Marvel Comics' website, which is made to look like the comic-book newspaper the Daily Bugle, the company states, "We can now confirm that the victim has been identified as Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America. Rogers was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital."

According to the comic book, he did not have his signature star-studded shield with him when he was assassinated.

The stories of Rogers and his transformation into Captain America were key to keeping up the spirits of U.S. soldiers during the Second World War.

Rogers started his comic-book adventures as a scrawny weakling who was repeatedly passed over by the military.

He signed up for Operation: Rebirth, a dangerous experimental strengthening procedure that ended up turning most test subjects into raving madmen. Rogers was the heroic exception.

Along with his sidekick, Bucky, Captain America - who draped himself in the Stars and Stripes - fought against Hitler and the communist threat.

His character spawned a TV show in the late '70s and numerous movies. Life will go on in a Captain America movie slated to hit theatres in 2009.

In the current comic-book story, before he was assassinated, he was to stand trial after protesting the U.S. government requirement that all superheroes register their names, powers and all personal details in exchange for a steady paycheque, benefits and a pension.
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2007

Daily Bugle: Captain America shot and killed

Living legend assassinated on steps of Federal Courthouse

By The Daily Bugle Staff

Earlier today, we reported on the attempted assassination of a former superhero. We can now confirm that the victim has been identified as Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America. Rogers was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital due to injuries suffered from multiple gunshot wounds to the shoulder, chest and stomach.

photo by Steve
Epting, Daily Bugle
staff photographer

Eyewitness reports claim that the initial bullet, tagging Rogers in the shoulder, came from a sniper perched atop or in one of the buildings adjacent to the Federal Courthouse. Several other shots were fired during the ensuing commotion--hitting Rogers in the chest and stomach--but witnesses fleeing the scene, as well as the U.S. Marshals who were escorting Rogers, have stated there was only one sniper shot fired.

The identity of the assassin(s), as well as the origin of the other shots, have not yet been revealed. Agents from S.H.I.E.L.D., the FBI and local police are working together on the investigation and have begun combing the buildings in the area. A S.H.I.E.L.D. spokesperson declined to comment on the shooting, and stressed that few details regarding the investigation would be available while it's being conducted.

Rogers, a veteran of World War II, thought lost during the close of those hostilities, returned to action decades later and was instrumental in the early days of the Avengers. He had been at the forefront of American superheroics until recently when he openly and violently opposed the U.S. government's Superhero Registration Act. As Captain America, Rogers battled pro-Registration forces last week in Manhattan until surrendering himself to S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. He was on his way to his arraignment when he was struck down earlier today.

photo by Steve
Epting, Daily Bugle
staff photographer
Rogers has never been married and has no known living relatives.

For more on the shooting, please see Captain America #25 and for further perspective on Captain America and these events, keep reading the Daily Bugle.

UPDATE: Daily Bugle Staff Photographer Steve Epting has submitted photos from the scene.

:cry: You will be missed.

Ushanewnewba Wrote::cry: You will be missed.

indeed
what a great loss :cry:

G

PS More photos

Quote:Dan Buckley, president and publisher of Marvel Entertainment, will not divulge details of what he describes as “really cool plot twists,” but does not rule out the possibility that Captain America is not really dead or is somehow resurrected.

Plot twists!

I always thought Captain America was invincibubble...

just take into account how many times iron man has died (3)

and hes still alive


cap is fine

To those who research there characters (like I did before picking the name) Captain America was test subject #1 from a line that eventually had Test subject X (wolverine) so to all who think I have died, think again! It has never been released but with everyone wondering whether I'm alive or dead, I am very much alive and now that I have to release tiny bits of a bigger secret, the regeneration originated with me!

Do not worry, I will still live on!

just for the record, according to wolverine's backstory, his regeneration is natural and the experiments on him were involving the application of adamantium to his entire skeletal structure, while your experiment actually involved the introduction of regeneration and superhuman strength and agility.


...reading ftw