According to MSNBC and the Financial Times, the UN has commissioned Marvel comics to create a comic that teams up the United Nations and some of Marvel’s best known superheroes to fight along with UN peacekeepers in a fictional war-torn country. The first 1 million copies will be distributed free to US schoolchildren. It doesn’t say which characters other than Spider-Man will be included but one can hope that Captain America gets to help too.
It is an interesting idea. One that was used before. “The latest U.N. initiative is not the first time U.S. comics have been used for political purposes. During World War II, superheroes were shown taking on Germany
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