Story #2Nuff Said - We Dared Them
Writer: Dan Jurgens.
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The script for the previous story.
Story #3Keep in Mind
Writer: Kathryn Kuder. Penciler: Stuart Immonen. Inker: Stuart Immonen. Colorist: Stuart Immonen.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
An elderly man named
Scott visits a classroom of young children to talk about his experiences during World War 2. As copilot on a reconnaissance plane, he was shot down and barely made it back to safety. He closes by mentioning the feeling of solidarity with the people he was fighting for and tells them that it takes as much courage to live in peace as well as fight for it. While he has been telling his story,
Steve Rogers has been shown visiting a battlefield and cemetery in France. As the kids bombard Mr. Scott with questions, Steve stands silent, remembering the sacrifices of his comrades.
Story #4To the Core
Writer: Dan Jurgens. Penciler: Rick Veitch. Penciler: Mike Zeck. Penciler: Dan Jurgens. Penciler: John Romita. Penciler: Ron Frenz. Penciler: Sal Buscema. Inker: Al Gordon. Inker: Tom Palmer. Inker: Bob Layton. Inker: Sal Buscema. Inker: Bruce Timm. Colorist: Edgar Tadeo.
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Captain America visits an old house in a remote area, explaining to an unseen companion about a test he has prepared. Gas fills the room and suddenly Cap is back battling the Nazis alongside
Bucky. The scene changes and he is struggling agains the
Super-Adaptoid, then the
Dragon Man. The latter knocks him from a roof where he is rescued by a young
Falcon. Then on a rooftop he spies the murdered
Roscoe and relives his brief career as
Nomad, and concludes that
Steve Rogers is a man, Captain America is a symbol but he is one person not two, and his life experiences made what he is. We see he has been talking to
Sharon Carter and the house is a
SHIELD facility where a truth gas unlocks subject deepest memories. Cap did this to open up to Sharon, hoping to win her back. She requests more time to think things through; he grants it to her. They kiss. And watch the sunrise.
Story #5Relics
Writer: Brian David-Marshall. Penciler: Igor Kordey. Inker: Igor Kordey. Colorist: Avalon Studios.
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Steve Rogers sits at home, taking a call from Sharon Carter requesting more time to think about their relationship, while idly tossing around his shield. Later, watching a Saturday Night Live sketch lampooning him, he receives a phone call from Nick Fury, trying to cheer him up. Suddenly Steve hears a beeping in his closet: it is a long-forgotten signal device, reporting a missing nuclear bomb turning up in New Jersey. As Captain America, he heads to the site indicated: a fenced-off abandoned town. Scaling the fence he finds a suburban neighborhood populated by elderly folk dressed as the Red Skull; overwhelmed by the mob he awakens to find himself chained inside a Nazi church with the bomb on the altar before him. The leader explains his group were Nazis relocated to the US and pardoned in exchange for reveling Hitler’s nuclear secrets; betrayed by the US government, they recovered a hidden bomb and aged into a suicide cult, planning now to detonate the bomb in a final act of revenge. Cap breaks loose and, holding off the Nazis, rips the detonator from the bomb and hurls it out the window. Seconds later there is an explosion….
Later, Nick Fury and his team, in hazmat suits are combing the rubble of the church for any sign of Captain America….
Story #6A Moment of Silence
Writer: Jen Van Meter. Penciler: Brian Hurt. Inker: Jim Mahfood.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
At an elementary school, the kids are playing at superheroes when shy
Ranji, an Indian boy, asks if he can have a turn at being
Captain America.
Mark, the group’s leader, agrees. Later, an announcement is made over the school speaker that Captain America has been reported killed in a bomb blast in New Jersey. A group of white boys attack Ranji in the classroom because he is "foreign," thinking he hated Cap and Mark refuses to get involved. A saddened Ranji goes home to his room which is covered with pictures of his idol, and he tells his mother that Captain America is dead.
Story #7Stars & Stripes Forever
Penciler: Kevin Maguire. Inker: Kevin Maguire. Colorist: Avalon Studios.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
The nation reacts to reports of
Captain America’s death (in order):
Iron Man, Janet and
Hank Pym, Union Jack, Jack Monroe, Thor, Mister Hyde, Namor, MODOK, elderly veteran,
Tony Stark, skateboarder,
Rick Jones, J. Jonah Jameson, the Fantastic Four, the Mad Thinker, crazy homeless man,
Dum Dum Dugan and other
SHIELD agents
, the Absorbing Man, USAgent, Black Widow, Quicksilver and
Scarlet Witch, Hydra, Arnim Zola, Henry Peter Gyrich, Hawkeye, barroom cynic,
Doctor Doom, Whirlwind, Hulk, a police officer,
Jarvis, a comic book guy,
Black Panther, Batroc, the Red Skull, Nick Fury, and finally
Sharon Carter. At his well-attended funeral, Sam (the
Falcon) Wilson gives the eulogy for the fallen hero.