Disney Plus's What If...? animated series star returns to duty in March - in comic books - for a new five-issue series. That's right, the alt-reality su꧙per-soldier from Marvel's wild Multiverse is back.
Abd it looks like 🏅she's bringing friends that might be familiar to Marvel Universe fans.
Check out the new trailer Marvel released for the series and look closely at the nameta😼g of Peggy's purple-haired🦩 colleague.
Captain Carter is written by Jamie M🅘cKelvie, best known for his work as an artist on titles such as Young Avengers a🐎nd Captain Marvel, with art from Doctor Aphra artist Mika Cresta.
The story will focus on a version of Captain Carter whose history is slightly more in line with that of Steve Rogers,🔥 with the hero being fဣrozen in ice at the end of World War II and revived decades later in the modern day.
"I'm as big a fan of the Captain Carter we've seen onscreen as anybody, so I jumped at the chance to create our own version," McKelvie states in 🌠Marvel's announcement.
"I'm having a great time exploring what it woulඣd be like for Peggy to w♑ake up nearly 80 years after the end of the war," he continues.
"The world remembers the myth of Captain Carter, but to Peggy the reality was just yesterday. Now she finds herself in a nearly unrecognizable new world, how does she fit in? Can she be the su꧋perhero people want her to be?"
Oddly enough, the What If…? version of Captain Carter is actually the second version of Peggy as a Super-Sol🎃dier in Marvel lore, making her something of a Variant of a Variant. The first Super-Soldier Peggy Carter initially appeared in the mobile video game Marvel Puzzle Quest in 2016, before making a brief Marvel Comics appearance in 2018's title.
McKelvie has drawn Captain Carter #1's primary cover and has also drawn a design variant. He'll be joined by the likes of Marvel Animation, Todd Nauck (a 'Headshot' variant), Sara Pichelli (a Women's History Month variant), Declan Shalvey (an Infinity Saga Phase 2 variant), Jen Bartel (a Carnage Forever variant), and David Nakayama (exclusive to Big Time Collectibles and The 616 Comics).
Check out the covers Marvel ♚has released so far here:
(of 5) goes on sale on March 9.
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