Captain America #42
In "The Death of Captain America Act 3: The Man Who Bought America: Part Six," Steve Epting’s sharp, evocative art captures a fractured Captain America, both in body and spirit, as the legacy of the original hero collides with a present-day world teetering on the edge. Sharon’s desperate escape from the Red Skull’s grasp leads to a shocking twist—Zola’s twisted experiment, the Skull’s consciousness reborn in a robotic shell, and a 1950s Cap wandering the streets, haunted by a past he can’t change. With Ed Brubaker’s masterful storytelling and Epting’s dynamic visuals—both in story and on the cover by Epting himself—this issue deepens the mystery of identity, sacrifice, and what it truly means to be a symbol.
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Sharon escapes from the Red Skull's hands, but not before Zola makes her a part of some sick experiment. Cap takes out Sin and welcomed as a hero by the public. In her escape, Sharon shoots and apparently kills the Skull. But it is only Lukin she kills, as Zola has transplanted the Red Skull's consciousness into one of his (Zola's) robotic bodies. Oh, and the 1950s Cap wanders the streets of New York, hoping for his revenge against the sinful world.
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