Captain America is on a Collision Course With Xenomorphs

In recent years, Fox being under the same corporate umbrella as Marvel has led to Marvel doing a whole line of great comic using Fox properties like Predator and Alien, and starting last year, those properties have begun to crossover with Marvel's superheroes, and that continues with this striking new series sending Captain America against Xenomorphs in World War iI, and CBR has an exclusive preview of the first issue of the series.

Alien vs. Captain America #1 is from writer Frank Tieri and artist Stefano Raffaele, and as Tieri noted a while back, “Sometimes a project comes along and you just have to pinch yourself that you get to be involved with it. I mean, here you have two of the most iconic properties in entertainment—Captain America, who is basically the ultimate hero, going against Alien, one of the ultimate names in horror. As a writer, what more can you ask for than that?"

ALIEN VS. CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 (OF 4)

FRANK TIERI (W) • STEFANO RAFFAELE (A) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU

FOIL VARIANT COVER BY DAN PANOSIAN

VARIANT COVER BY INHYUK LEE • VARIANT COVER BY TBA

VARIANT COVER BY TBA • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY TBA

THE RED SKULL’S NEWEST RECRUITS!

It’s World War II, and Hydra seeks a new weapon to defeat the Allies and win the war. To that end, the Red Skull has sent Baron Strucker on an expedition to the Himalayas to find the fabled city of Attilan. But instead of finding the Inhumans, Strucker uncovers something much more deadly. Much more… Alien. Can Captain America and the Howling Commandos stop the Skull and his newfound Xenomorph weapons…or will the First Avenger learn that in war-torn Europe…no one can hear you scream?

32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$5.99

In the preview pages, we see Captain America and Bucky attacking Castle Strucker in an attempt to capture Baron Strucker, a longtime Marvel villain who was introduced by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee as part of Marvel's clever dual-timeline approach to the Marvel Universe, where they would introduce a character fighting Nick Fury in World War II in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, and then also introduce that same villain in modern time, in a different role. For instance, they would all be Nazis in World War II, but in modern time, Baron Zemo (as an example) would be the leader of the Masters of Evil, and Baron Strucker would be working with SHIELD's nemesis, Hydra.

A relatively recent change in Marvel history (presumably, in part, to tie into the Marvel Cinematic Universe going in this direction) was to establish that Hydra was a villain group during World War II, as well. So in these preview pages, Cap and Bucky are beating up Hydra foot soldiers while looking for Baron Strucker. We get an awesome sequence where we see how devoted Hydra soldiers are, that they kill themselves when captured. Cap and Bucky are left wondering where Baron Strucker is, and the preview ominiously moves to showing Strucker on a mission to a mysterious site in the mountains, and, well, we all know what he is going to find there, but if you want to see how bad things get when Strucker finds the Xenomorphs, you'll have to pick up a copy of Alien vs. Captain America #1, out next week!

Source: Marvel