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    Director's Cut of Captain America # 25 (2005)

    Go behind the scenes on one of the most important issues in Marvel history!

    The events in CAPTAIN AMERICA #25 have been covered in news outlets nationwide, and this bonus edition brings you closer to the tragedy than ever before. Reprints CAPTAIN AMERICA #25 in its entirety and featuring Ed Brubaker’s complete script and other extras.

    Captain America's surrender during the "Civil War" is on the news. The coverage is now focusing on the arraignment of Steve Rogers. The hearing is to take place in New York rather than in front of a military tribunal. It will also be broadcast live on all networks. A crowd of supporters and protesters has gathered outside the courthouse.

    Agent 13, Sharon Carter is among the crowd. She is in contact with Nick Fury who seems to have a plan for something. Sharon recalls her first memories of Captain America and their time together as partners and lovers.

    Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes is also among the crowd. He too recalls his first meeting of Cap and how you had no choice but to look up to him.

    Steve Rogers finally arrives escourted by the US Marshalls. The crowd shouts outs questions and statements of support and disdain. One member even throws a tomatoe that hits him in the face asking, "Since when does Captain America surrender?!" As Rogers shakes off the mess, he notices a red dot appear on the marshall in front of him. Looking up, he finds the source in a building window across the street. Dr. Faustus and the Red Skull (in Aleksander Lukin's body notice that Rogers has found the sniper as they watch on television. The Skull insists that their plan stay in motion as they have done what they could to get the Rogers transferred to New York.

    Cap yells, "Look out!" and pushes the marshall out of the way. The sniper's bullet shoots through his upper chest. The crowd panics. Sharon tries to get to Steve. Barnes also tries to work his way through the crowd. As Sharon is about to reach Steve, a gun is seen and three more shots, at close range, hit Captain America.

    Weak from the shots, Rogers still asks Sharon to get the crowd to safety. Winter Soldier jumps through the window where the sniper shot came from. He is too late. Just then, Falcon flies into the building pinning Barnes against the wall thinking he was responsible. Winter Soldier quickly convinces him otherwise. Fury is able to track where the sniper went, a news copter has swooped down to pick him up. Barnes asks Falcon to carry him out as Steve Rogers is taken by an ambulence.

    In the copther, Tombstone sees that they are being followed. Barnes shoots at them which causes the copter to go down. Tombstone simply jumps out towards Falcon and Winter Soldier as gravity carries them down. Barnes beats Tombstone down as Sin, the Red Skull's daughter observes. She calls her father and he tells her to move on to the next part of the plan. She is seen entering the nearby hospital dressed as a nurse.

    Falcon tells Barnes to leave before S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives, leaving Tombstone with them. As S.H.I.E.L.D. soldier arrive and order Falcon to stand down, he does so willingly to go to Steve's side. As the ambulence arrives at the hospital, the news announces that Steve Rogers has been pronounced dead on arrival. Sharon and Falcon can be seen sitting in a waiting room.

    Later Sharon goes to the restroom to splash some water on her face. At that moment, Sin walks in telling her the doctor wanted her to tell Sharon something. Dr. Faustus wanted her to tell her to "remember." Sharon's eyes roll back as she goes back to when the sniper bullet was fired. She sees herself working throught the crowd to get to Steve's side. Then she sees herself hold a gun up to Steve's gut and fire three times. She crumbles to the floor in tears over what she has done.

    On a hospital bed, covered in a bloody sheet, the lifeless body of Captain America is lying there.

    Captain America #25 script

    Pencils by Steve Epting

    • Page 3 (Cap in WWII)

    • Page 10

    • Page 11

    • Page 12 (Captain America being brought to the courthouse)

    • Page 13 (Cap noticing the sniper)

    • Page 14 (Cap pushing US Marshall and taking the sniper's bullet)

    • Page 15 (Sharon and Winter Soldier rushing to Cap; final bullet)

    • Page 16 (Cap lying on the steps with Sharon)

    • Page 21 (Falcon and Winter Solder going after Crossbones)

    • Page 22 (Crossbones jumping out of helicopter at Winter Soldier)

    • Page 23 (Original and Final versions, landing is different)

    • Page 30 (Sin revealing herself to Sharon in restroom)

    • Page 31 (Sharon recalling shooting Cap at point blank)

    • Page 32 (Final page, Sharon in tears, Cap's dead body)

    In The Trenches

    News articles covering the issue, including Ed Brubaker making the front page of the Daily News, U.S. News & World Report, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and a quote from Stan Lee from Newsweek.

    Cover Gallery

    • Cover to #25 by Steve Epting

    • Unused cover (pencils only) by Steve Epting (shield and Cap's costume full of bullet holes)

    • Variant cover inks by Ed McGuinness

    • Variant cover, final version

    • Cover to #25, Wizard World Los Angeles variant cover by John Cassaday

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