WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Marvels Snapshots: Captain America #1, by Mark Russell, Rico Renzi, Ramon Perez and VC's Joe Sabino, on sale now.

Since his creation by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a Nazi-punching super-soldier in 1941, Captain America has evolved into a modern pop culture icon. Among his most memorable stories is Kirby's "Madbomb" arc from 1976.

Captain America #193-200 covered how a psychotropic bomb was dropped in New York, causing citizens to turn on each other in a fit of rage. The sonic signals basically made them kill each other, but luckily, Cap and the Avengers were there to save the day.

However, as Marvels Snapshots: Captain America shows, there's a dark legacy there that paints Earth's Mightiest Heroes as neglectful toward a particular Black, impoverished community.

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The story focuses on Felix Waterhouse, a young Black teen, as he struggles to understand the concept of selfless and dedicated heroism while the Avengers search for the bigger Madbomb left behind by the Elites. Felix is angry the heroes are paying attention to rebuilding Queens, Manhattan and Long Island along the way, whereas poor areas -- like the South Bronx -- are ignored. Because of the blast radius, a few people turned in his neighborhood, which led to Felix's mom killing his kid brother.

Felix doesn't have much hope, because he feels people of color -- in particular, Black people -- have been forgotten in the wake of the disaster. By ignoring neighborhoods comprised mostly of people of color and working to fix predominately white neighborhoods, the Avengers are making a statement about what kinds of people are worth helping.

Felix also struggles because, with the South Bronx in such a disastrous state, his dad can no longer afford to send him to college. However, A.I.M. swoops in and the terrorist cell recruits Felix.

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A.I.M. knows Felix is a genius and wants to exploit him for a great salary. As the South Bronx is ignored, Felix takes the offer, working as a budding engineer. He eventually gets promoted for his brain and realizes A.I.M. is trying to make new Madbombs. He's torn, because he doesn't feel a duty to America -- the country's treatment of Black people has been atrocious since the start.

Felix rigs the device and even after he's found out, he sets it off. The feedback pulse goes off so hard, the wave hits Iron Man in the field. This brings the Avengers in to shut the operation down, but Felix is pissed.

He doesn't want praise, because had the signal not reached Iron Man -- a white man of great privilege -- nothing would have happened. It shows how the elite really are the ones who have the power to effect change, which is an important point about systemic racism, oppression and how the United States built to stifle minorities and those who truly need help.

He also takes a Stark job offer as an insult, but when Cap comes to South Bronx to literally help with repairs, he and Felix finally make progress and see eye to eye. Steve Rogers shows his human side and apologizes, promising they'll do better. Felix can respect this, because Cap doesn't seem to be operating from a white savior complex or doing the work as some vanity project. Cap wants to make it right and this is the solution Felix wants to build the future: Loyalty, trust, unity and equality.

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