What if Captain America wasn’t one of the good guys after all? The first issue of the Captain America: Steve Rogers comic series revealed that the leader of The Avengers is an undercover agent for the terrorist organization Hydra.
This book features a story written by Nick Spencer and illustrations created by Jesus Saiz. Tom Brevoort, an executive editor at Marvel, sat for an interview with TIME magazine to discuss this surprising turn of events.
When asked what Rogers’ Hydra affiliation means for the Marvel universe, Brevoort answered: “It means on the most fundamental level that the most trusted hero in the Marvel universe is now secretly a deep-cover Hydra operative, a fact that’s really only known to the readers and to him. That makes every interaction he has with anyone take on a second layer, a second meaning.” (via Yahoo! News)