Public Identities.

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

Hiya kindly experts at the comm...

I'm currently drawing up some stuff for the christmas challenge, and I was wondering something about public identity and our favorite men.

After new Avengers got formed, after Extremis, but way before Civil War, in regular Marvel canon:

1) Is it public knowledge that Tony Stark is Iron Man? Because in some comics it seems that it is... but I read in Extremis that it was still hidden...

2) Is it public knowledge that Steve Rogers is Captain America?

Just wondering... please help!

Comments

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Steve was unmasked in 2001 for sure. There was a series dealing with the 9/11 attacks and at one point Steve is on TV and is all "America didn't kill this guy *remove mask* I did"

Now whether anyone knew before then and he was just making a point or whether that was an official unmasking, I don't know.

In the Secret War trade paperback I have (which is about Nick Fury being stupid, not the Beyonder)the SHIELD notes say Captain America's identity status is public, and the trade is came out in 2005 and I think it's collecting a story for 2004-ish.

So my guess is that at least 2001- on Steve was known as Cap, before that no idea at all.

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember it coming up in Alias, since the first story arc is about Jessica finding out Cap's identity, and then a few arcs later someone is all "Hey did you hear that Cap unmasked?"

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Hey did you hear that Cap unmasked?
Cool. I keep wanting to pick those up to get a better feel for Jessica.

Heh you know the real reason Steve did it was to make his art sell better. The minute after he unmasked the price of his artwork increased exponentially =P (joking of course)