You might have noticed that there was no recap for this issue. Despite returning to ‘present’ time, despite the good push this particular story had when we first saw Ka-Zar and Spidey hash things out in the Savage Land right around the first issue of Secret Invasion when all the Marvel heroes that arrived on the ship and they started fighting against the New and Mighty teams.
Well, when this went down, Ka-Zar and his band of Savage Landites happened upon the whole thing and wound up trying to get a handle on what’s going on by talking with Spider-Man as seen in New Avengers #41, only to have Captain America happen upon them and the threat of a fight start. Well, a couple issues later, Spidey and his Savage Friends try talking this Cap down by explaining he can’t be Cap since Cap is dead, but this just leads to, you guessed it, fighting. No one thinks to ask “Hey, Cap! Great to see you back! What the hell are you doing on a spaceship?” Sure, we know it’s not really Steve Rogers (for heaven’s sake, Fallen Son was just one ‘No really, Steve Rogers is really dead we mean it it’s serious, he’s dead, the end!’ after the other), but humor the bastard! Try to get some info out of him!
Well, not-Cap gets blowdarted to bits and falls only to reveal himself as a foamy mouthed Skrull. Cut to a flashback where they talk about how this Skrull got the blood blanket treatment, how it doesn’t always go according to plan, how the Skrull Mind Priestess had to do a little fussing with the memories of this warrior so that he would remember an alternate timeline that would make him believe he’s Steve Rogers with greater clarity but this doesn’t matter at all BECAUSE HE’S DEAD AND THE HEROES CAN’T LEARN THIS INFO.
So the reader is now told that the spaceship that crashed in the Savage Land didn’t have the real Captain America in it. Thanks to Secret Invasion #5, we know that the spaceship didn’t have the real ANYONE inside, but if you read this issue before that, you would have figured out the same thing.
And that’s all you need to know.
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