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

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Steve's never really had a secret identity post-unfreezing, in that Captain America's identity was already public knowledge at that point. Back during WWII, though, he spent his out-of-costume time pretending to be "Private Rogers," an ordinary soldier (at least, at the beginning of the war, he did). He's also concealed his identity as Captain America from people on various occasions, but this mostly consisted of saying "Hi, I'm Steve Rogers," and leaving out the "yes, that Steve Rogers, the one who's Captain America." Needless to say, this tactic never worked well.

Tony's identity as Iron Man was a secret from the general public until late in Volume 3 (around 2001-ish), when it was accidentally revealed. He then regained it at least partially by lying kind of a lot post-Disassembled ("I've totally given up being Iron Man! Yes! Totally! Not me in the costume, lalala!") and then publically revealed it again during Civil War.

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

He's also concealed his identity as Captain America from people on various occasions, but this mostly consisted of saying "Hi, I'm Steve Rogers," and leaving out the "yes, that Steve Rogers, the one who's Captain America." Needless to say, this tactic never worked well.

ROFL. I'd say Cap mostly sucks at lying...