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Steve Rogers may be the best known, but he’s far from Marvel’s only Captain America — and we’re not just talking about Sam Wilson’s newcomer take on the patriotic identity. With the launch of Marvel’s new Captain America comic book series, we can add a new Cap to the mix — the 21st century forgotten Captain America, David Colton.

Introduced in the first issue of the series, released July 2, David is literally a remix on the classic Steve Rogers story: a physically smaller, weaker man given the opportunity to serve his country — and get swole — by a U.S. government looking for super soldiers in a time of national strife. In this case, it’s the post-9/11 era, when Steve Rogers was still frozen in ice thanks to the sliding timeline of the Marvel Universe. When Steve wakes up, he’s sent on a mission with David… and a potential collision is set in motion.

“David is a Captain America lost to time, coming to life in a post-9/11 world,” series writer Chip Zdarsky told Marvel.com about the new character. “And now Steve Rogers, his hero, is back and under David's command. He's finally meeting his hero. They say to never meet your heroes. It's been really challenging and satisfying working out David's story and how a modern world and war would affect someone taking on this mantle. It's been especially satisfying writing Steve, seeing this new world through David's eyes, and what it means for his journey.”

It should be noted that the foreshadowing is already in place for David not to be the paragon of virtue that Steve is, purely by his being an additional Captain America — Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson aside, fate has not been kind to other men trying to be Captain America, with William Burnside (the Cap of the 1950s, as retconned in 1972’s Captain America #153) ultimately becoming a white supremacist villain, and John Walker (the Cap of the late 1980s, as of 1987’s Captain America #333) having a breakdown before faking his death and re-emerging as the U.S. Agent. For that matter, his fate might be sealed by the fact that the current Captain America series is set in the recent past, but there’s clearly no David Colton Cap running around in ‘today’s’ comic book Marvel Universe…

The Cap team-up between Steve Rogers and David Colton takes the two Caps to Latveria to face off against Doctor Doom — and the ‘Our Secret Wars’ story continues in Captain America #2, out August 6.

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