Hi Roger its me again with another question about old comics.

After the revelations in the last number of Ed Brubaker´s Captain America, In a Spanish forum we started to have a chit chat about the Grand director saga [Captain America #231 to #237] in those times I think that you were the editor of the series.

Can you remember anything involving the death of Sharon Carter?. I mean how the idea come. And specially why did you didin´t killed her in a big climatic scene (in the Gwen Stacy manner) but rather in such a shy and secondary way. She suicides herself under he mind control of Doctor Faustus but we never see the exact moment, Steve discover it in a video tape after the combat.



Dont misunderstand me. I love the scene and it was so anticlimactic and strange that it attracted my attention when I read this for the first time. But it was weird that you choose to kill Sharon in this way, when she was Steve´s girlfriend since the first Kirby run.

Do you had any plan to bring her back, and that´s why you didint show us the moment of her death or his corpse?. It would be strange because after that numbers Steve changes his life: he moves to a new apartment, get a new job, and eventually meet a new girlfriend in Bernie Roshental, He was cutting all his ties with the past.

Thanks in advance if you have some idea, I understand that all this happened more than 20 years ago...

After all this time, I don't remember why it was decided to kill Sharon Carter. I dimly remember that Chris Claremont was supposed to take over the series, and then had to bow out because of schedule conflicts.

But we probably went with the videotape scene in case we ever needed an out to bring Sharon back.

I'm just surprised that it was about 16 years before someone -- Mark Waid, wasnt it? -- did bring her back.

-- Uncle Rog

Yep after you left the series in those 15 years there were only 2 runs in Captain America, the long run of JM Demateiss and the looooong run of Mark Gruenwald. I suppose that bringing back Sharon never was on his agendas, but then Waid came and revived her in one of the first episodes.

Thanks for the answer, and forgive me for forcing you memory.