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For Jack Kirby Week, Marvel Kills Off 4 Fantastic Four Characters? (SPOILERS)

This is Jack Kirby Week. Marvel Comics, after settling with his family and estate with a mid-eight figure sum over royalties due for his lifetime's work for the publisher, are keen to reassociate themselves with his name and celebrate his legacy.

Which is why this week's Captain America: Steve Rogers #4 by Nick Spencer, Javier Pina, Miguel Sepulveda and Rachelle Rosenberg may rankle some.

Oh no, it's nothing to do with Captain America having his life rewritten by a cosmic cube spot that he has always been a sleeper agent of Hydra. That's just the kind of thing Jack Kirby would have done.

It's just that while we've seen this version of Steve Rogers avoid killing someone, either accidentally or on purpose… this time we are not so lucky.

Because he goes all out on , the Red Ghost's super-apes, Grigori the Gorilla, Igor the Baboon, and Peotr the Orangutan.

And then for the already truncated Red Ghost himself.

We are spared the killing blow, however. Hey, I thought he was able to go intangible?

Maybe he did.

The Red Ghost and his apes were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Fantastic Four in 1963 and acted as a Communist version of the Fantastic Four, a government agent and his three experimental apes who had all received powers from cosmic rays, and acted as a parallel for the Cold War, then raging.

I don't know, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, constantly putting their personal politics into their comic books, why couldn't they just tell good stories like Chuck Dixon?

Also, RIP Harambe.

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