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Captain America fights new foe: suicide

Captain America’s latest foe is deadlier than the Red Skull.

The character armed with his trademark shield faces off against suicide in a new story that publisher Marvel Entertainment released on Wednesday for free through its website and app.

The toll-free hotline for America’s National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is featured in the work, too.

The 11-page story “Captain America: A Little Help” is written by psychologist Tim Ursiny and illustrated by Nick Dragotta.

In it, a despondent youth is poised to jump off a building when he spies Captain America facing a bevy of villains on a nearby roof. The fracas keeps him from going over the edge, literally and figuratively.

There is no dialogue, save for the end, which ends with the boy saving both the hero and, in the process, himself.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .