Captain America kills Osama bin Laden

Kai Lord · Jun 29, 2003

I haven't read a comic in years, but I heard from a coworker that after 9/11 Marvel ran a story where Cap tracks down either Osama or an Osama type character and kills him. Can anyone tell me what issue this occurred in? Was it in a regular Captain America comic or that new "Ultimates" series?

GMVictory · Jun 29, 2003

In the regular series he kills a terrorist leader (not OBL) of a fictional terrorist group that had wired people with explosives to save them. This terrorist was in the US. I'm at work, so I can't tell you the issue right now, but it is early in the series. Marvel recently restarted Cap (again).

I don't think that has occurred in the Ultimates either. But, I could be wrong. I don't get the Ultimates because I don't like the way Cap is portrayed.

Welverin · Jun 29, 2003

Nothing like that in The Ultimates.

KL if you'd like to read the story go here, and then go to the free section (it's flash so I can't give a direct link). I believe the whole story should be there (they have issues 1-3 and 7 up). It's where I read it, so unless they took some issues down you should be able to as well.

Kai Lord · Jun 29, 2003

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Alzrius · Jun 29, 2003

This is going mildly off-topic, but Marvel did run a special "9/11" issue of one of the Spider-Man titles a little while back (I think it was "Amazing Spider-Man"). The cover was entirely black save for the title of the comic.

It was extremely well-done, dealing with Spidey and some other heroes (and even villains) at ground zero shortly after the planes hit. Captain America is there, and Spidey looks at him and thinks, I wish I hadn't lived to see this once...I can't imagine what its like for him, to have seen this twice.

Silver Moon · Jun 29, 2003

Personally, I'm not fond of the new trend of the Marvel Universe mirroring our world, with the war on terrorism now taking center stage.

Most people have praised the new direction on Cap. And the current Avengers storyline (tracking down a biological weapons leak that killed thousands of Americans) appears to have also been well recieved, but I for one have now dropped that title. I like a little reality with my fantasy, but some books I read to escape from the horrors of the 6PM news.

Wormwood · Jun 29, 2003

Silver Moon said:
Personally, I'm not fond of the new trend of the Marvel Universe mirroring our world, with the war on terrorism now taking center stage.

Of course, over in the Ultimate Universe there's a new 9/11 scale atrocity every month.

Silver Moon · Jun 29, 2003

Wormwood said:
Of course, over in the Ultimate Universe there's a new 9/11 scale atrocity every month.

Which is why I have stayed away from the Universe. I'm amazed that this has actually caught - Marvel's five previous attempts to launch a second universe were all dismal failures.

Viking Bastard · Jun 29, 2003

Wormwood said:
Of course, over in the Ultimate Universe there's a new 9/11 scale atrocity every month.

Which is just not true. There've only been two big scale things in
the UU until this point. The Ultimates vs. Hulk fight (that killed 300)
and the Ultimates vs. X-Men fight (of which I don't know the details
since I haven't read the story). Well, there was a close call with
the first X-Men vs. Magneto fight, but I don't think many civilians
really noticed.

Now, compare this to the Kurt Busiek run on the Avengers a couple
of years back, when each arc had millions dead.

Of course, if there's a comic universe with the highest bodycount,
on a regular basis, the Wildstorm Universe is the ultimate King.

Wormwood · Jun 30, 2003

Viking Bastard said:
Which is just not true. There've only been two big scale things in
the UU until this point.

Wrong.

Off the top of my head, so I may be missing a few:

1. Magneto attacked Washington and New York some time before Ultimate X-Men #1, spurring President Clinton into appoving the Sentinel Program.
2. The Pentagon is attacked at one point (mentioned in Ultimates backstory, IIRC).
3. Magneto *devastates* Washington DC with a Sentinel Army (and humiliates Pesident Bush on live TV).
4. Brotherhood bombs London, blowing the crap out of Parliament and other government buildings.
5. During 'X-Men: World Tour', Xavier Junior kills *thousands* of civilians across the globe.

It's clearly implied that the Brotherhood is an international terrorist group with a long history of conducting bloody attacks on civilian and goverment targets.

I'd be happy to go through my entire collection page by page, but I think you get the point.