{"id":209052,"date":"2025-12-29T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/209052\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:20:07","slug":"29-years-ago-marvel-made-the-greatest-mistake-with-captain-america-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/209052\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Years Ago, Marvel Made the Greatest Mistake with Captain America Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain America<\/a> has become one of Marvel<\/a>\u2018s most popular heroes, with the character\u2019s role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe making him a household name. However, Cap had been an icon for decades before the MCU was ever thought of. The character was created in 1941\u2019s Captain America Comics #1 by Joe Simon and future Marvel superstar Jack Kirby. He was the most popular Marvel hero of the Golden Age and would reappear in the Silver Age in 1964\u2019s Avengers #4. The character would become the de facto leader of the superhero community and would eventually get his own solo book back, with stories from legends like Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, and a returning Jack Kirby.<\/p>\n

Captain America has starred in some amazing stories<\/a> over the decades, with some of the most talented creators in comics working on the character. His books sold well in the \u201960s and \u201970s, and the \u201980s saw some of his best stories. However, the \u201990s became a problem for the character. The \u201990s were the X-Men\u2019s decade<\/a>, and the rest of Marvel suffered badly. Fans just weren\u2019t really interested in heroes like Captain America anymore, and the House of Ideas didn\u2019t really know what to do with the character. We\u2019d get Cap-Wolf and a weakened armored Cap, but 1995 would bring the best change to the character in years. However, Marvel had other plan,s and they almost ruined everything.<\/p>\n

Heroes Reborn Derailed the Best Cap Run in Decades<\/p>\n

\"\"Image Courtesy of Marvel Comics<\/p>\n

Captain America had fallen down the charts, as had Avengers, Iron Man, and Fantastic Four. Marvel had tried everything (basically just copying ideas from the X-Men and Image Comics) to fix the problem, but nothing worked. So, in secret, the company began to negotiate with Rob Liefeld and Jim Lee, superstar artists who had left the House of Ideas to form Image, to take over the books. However, before this became common knowledge, the publisher put a new creative team on Captain America in Mark Waid and Ron Garney.<\/p>\n

The two of them came on the book after several years of bad stories, with Cap\u2019s supersoldier serum not working and him becoming an armored hero. Captain America #444 would end this plotline and lead into Waid and Garney\u2019s first story, \u201cOperation: Rebirth\u201d in issue #445. This story was back to basics Cap, literally a rebirth of the character. Sharon Carter was brought back, he was working with the government again, and he had to stop Red Skull. It was simple, it was elegant, it was everything that fans wanted and it was praised to high heaven. Sales started to climb as the comic press praised the book and fans realized how great it suddenly was.<\/p>\n

Things were starting to ramp up and then Marvel announced Heroes Reborn. Fans were outraged, because they had finally gotten a Cap book that they loved. Even worse than fan disappointment was what Marvel did to Waid and Garney. The creators didn\u2019t know that they were going to have less than a year on the book; they had no idea they were being replaced. It left a bad taste in a lot of fans\u2019 mouths, one that would be compounded by just how bad the Heroes Reborn books were, including Captain America (Vol. 2).<\/p>\n

Marvel has long been a shady company, but this was beyond the pale. Back then, their shadiness wasn\u2019t as well-known to fans; the situation with the Waid\/Garney run on Cap was the first time that the comic press covered Marvel screwing over creators in real time. Heroes Reborn was a failure, and Captain America (Vol. 2) is widely considered the worst part of it. Readers were turned off to the book not just because no one wanted Liefeld\u2019s Cap, but because they were outraged by Marvel\u2019s treatment of two great creators.<\/p>\n

After Heroes Reborn\u2018s failure, Marvel would bring the two of them back for Captain America (Vol. 3), but even then, Marvel wasn\u2019t done messing with Waid. One of his stories from the book changed so much that he had his name taken off the story and he would leave book after a little over a year before the end of 1999. Marvel, in their zeal to get some of that Image readership, basically destroyed the best Captain America run in decades and then finished the job a few years later.<\/p>\n

What do you think of \u201990s Captain America? Leave a comment in the comment section below and join the conversation on the ComicBook Forums<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain America has become one of Marvel\u2018s most popular heroes, with the character\u2019s role in the Marvel Cinematic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[57781,77368,146,116630,85,46,2079,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-209052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-answer-feature","9":"tag-captain-america","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-heroes-reborn","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-marvel","15":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}