Captain America's Best-Kept Secret Shows His Real Priorities as a Hero
Warning: contains spoilers for Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1!
Marvel's Captain America's best-kept secret reveals a key aspect of his personality — and also shows readers exactly what type of man he is and isn't regarding fame and fortune. Steve Rogers is very much a public figure as Captain America (and so is Steve himself, ever since he publicly revealed his secret identity in 2001), making it difficult for the Star-Spangled Man to live a relatively normal life when he isn't defending the country and fighting supervillains like the Red Skull. But Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1 proves Rogers deliberately avoids the spotlight as much as possible — for a very heroic reason.
Captain America is a title, and said title has been awarded to multiple people throughout Marvel history. From Isaiah Bradley to John Walker to Bucky Barnes, multiple superheroes (and more nebulous characters) have carried the signature shield into battle while Steve Rogers was frozen in ice, captured, de-powered, and even killed (though he was eventually resurrected after one year). Sam Wilson's Captain America was so popular that Marvel allowed him to retain the name along with Steve Rogers, who became the Sentinel of Liberty (while Wilson took the name Symbol of Truth).
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Thus, in Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1, written by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly with art by Carmen Carnero, Steve Rogers decides to put away the costume for awhile and return to his roots as a simple resident of Brooklyn in New York City. He rents out an old but otherwise nondescript apartment in his old neighborhood — which, unbeknownst to everyone else, is actually his
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