At the Virtues of Captain America Blog, friend of the Gutter Mark D. White writes about 1998’s new Captain America #1! “Over 500 posts to get a Captain America #1, and now we get another one a dozen posts later? Welcome to modern Marvel Comics, where we go from new #1s to triple-digit legacy numbering and back again in the blink of an eye.

The ‘Heroes Return’ era brings our lost heroes—Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and a handful of other Avengers, plus the Fantastic Four—back from the pocket universe Franklin Richards shunted them into after their battle with Onslaught. While the “Heroes Reborn” were living new lives in the other world, everyone in the 616 universe believed them dead, with the other heroes soldiering on (and some new ‘heroes’ taking their place).”

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