Captain America Hydra Twist Is Hell Of A Clever Idea, Says Stan Lee

The first issue of Captain America: Steve Rogers hit the stores this week with a huge twist. Captain America discloses in the issue that he is in fact a secret operative of the evil formerly Nazi organization Hydra. Marvel comics creator Stan Lee has shares his opinion about the recent Captain America Hydra twist.

“It's a hell of a clever idea,” Lee told an audience at MegaCon (via Comicbook). “I don't know that I would ever have thought of it for him to be a double agent, but it's going to make you curious, it's going to make you want to read the books, they'll probably do a movie based on it. So I can't fault it; it's a good idea. I think it's crazy, but it's a good idea."

Lee's comments come after the controversial twist in Issue No. 1 of Marvel's Captain America: Steve Rogers in which the iconic hero is revealed to be a secret agent of Hydra, an evil organization the super-soldier has spent his life fighting.

In an interview with Time, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort revealed that Captain America's reasoning would be enhanced in Issue No. 2 and that Steve Rogers being a part of Hydra will give readers a new perception on the character and the Marvel universe. "It means on the most fundamental level that the most trusted hero in the Marvel universe is now secretly a deep-cover Hydra operative, a fact that's really only known to the readers and to him. That makes every interaction he has with anyone take on a second layer, a second meaning," he said.

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