Long long ago, when Civil War was neither in the imagination of their creators, it happened a remote epoch that we know today with the frightening and obscure name of "80". There, in the middle of the decade, American society was looking at the problem of drug use, -and in particular the crack-one of [...]
long long ago, when Civil War was neither in the imagination of their creators, it happened a remote epoch that we know today with the frightening and obscure name of "80". There, in the middle of the decade, American society was looking at the problem of drug use, -and in particular the crack-as one of the most serious to those who had to face. In fact, when the surveys were asked about the risks suffered by young people at the time, the answer was unanimous: the crack threatened to teenagers like a bad comic villain is involved.
At the end of the decade, the problem had reached its highest point (as they collected many blockbusters of the moment, from Lethal Weapon RoboCop 2) and someone inside Marvel began to anticipate a problem that would present them at any time ... over the years he had accumulated all kinds of superheroes: boys who acquired powers by the bite of a radioactive spider, eccentric millionaires armored high tech, Norse gods, scientists bombarded with cosmic rays ... even had such a lovely be as Howard the Duck in its portfolio of characters, but one of its most recognizable heroes was a superman who dispensed justice indestructible thanks to the advantages of having used a drug.
And there was a superhero who could hide any stroke of a pen. Captain America was, which meant quite a problem at a time when he had to prove to the youth problems posed by drug use.
So Mark Gruenwald, screenwriter eternal comics Capi (his typewriter served the superhero from 1985 to 1995, a year before his death) began to plot a story that cleared the shadow of the drug hero stars and stripes. Over 7 numbers published from July 1990 (A Spain would not arrive until 1994) and a branch in Daredevil, we attended Poisoned Calles (Streets of Poison), a story in which a Captain America on top of happiness after having begun a flirtation with La Iguana, he discovered that Fabian Stankowicz -a engineer who had been work- Avengers was using a new type of drug called Ice.
Confused with The Punisher, the Capi getting deep into the laboratory where the ice was manufactured, but the building was destroyed in an explosion and when Captain America out of the rubble, the first thing he did was to kiss you here I hope to La Iguana; which, so chaste and man of the 40s that has always been the good of Steve Rogers, was an indication that something was not working right in his head.
The problem was that the explosion in the laboratory had made the hero drug inhaled and by passing his body was mixed with the Super Soldier Serum, who had made him a hero during World War II. The result was that the avenger who had left the lab was a different character, alienated because of the drug, violent and without any respect for human life besucón- amen of what made the Black Widow, Daredevil and the Iguana own they had to intervene to capture him and subject him to a treatment that could help you recover and return to be the example of behavior that was always in the superhero community.
Once captured, Dr. Hank Pym (ie, Michael Douglas in Ant-Man) studied the blood of the hero and came to a disturbing conclusion: the only solution was a complete transfusion, which would eliminate the ice bloodstream, but also erased at a stroke the Super Soldier Serum. That is the only solution to save Captain America was doing to stop being Captain America ... Was not fabulous Gruenwald creating conflicts?
After pulling off the blood and introduce a new, head of Steve Rogers again function normally, but assailed him doubt whether he could ever return to fight crime. Then he left the headquarters of the Avengers, and after a confrontation with Calavera (Frank Grillo in Civil War) in which the hero of the A head gave cakes the villain until at Staples comics, discovered to be the Captain America went far beyond the effects of a drug and that was enough courage and sense of justice to kick criminals in the comic strips of half the world. Therefore, although the end Hank Pym managed to filter the blood of Capi and isolate the precious serum, Captain America decided he did not want it to return into the body.
This shift in the biography of superhero could have stayed there with a declaration of principles by Marvel, Gruenwald and Captain America himself, but as having a Supersoldier it was no longer really a Supersoldier, originated problems within the marvelita ecosystem, the "House of ideas" honored his name and some numbers later, in April 1991, some analyzes carried superhero discovered that really Serum Supersoldier had never disappeared from his body as it had been able to regenerate itself inside your body.
In other words, according to the doctor attending him, Supersoldier Serum was not a drug without more, since his behavior was more like a virus. So that he remained a silver lining in a vital organ, would be extended again and again by the body of Steve Rogers.
This change of name of "drug" a "virus" was coming luxury Marvel to regain Captain America long while an excuse so no one could ever accuse him more than to have powers through the use of a drug .
Who said that comics had no solution for everything?
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