Captain America has never been dead longer than a year or two. Marvel arent going to let one of their big-name characters be worm food permanently, but they usually manage to fake out fans for at least a few months. Then theres the strange case of Captain America being killed off for a single issue, and resurrected the next month. In 2002, the Captain America comic was cancelled, awaiting a reboot with a brand-new first issue and renumbering. That finale issue was full of short stories by different creative teams, with the most shocking being a tale told by Brian David-Marshall and Igor Kordey, where Cap investigates an abandoned town in New Jersey overtaken by the Red Skull. That story ends with Captain America sacrificing himself to stop a bomb that the Skull and his surprising amount of devoted followers planned to detonate in New York. And...he dies. Seriously, the rest of the stories in the issue are about people reacting to the tragic news. But he stayed alive in Avengers, and the next series started with Rogers alive. Never explained.
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