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Captain America 350 [ 48-49 ]
"Seeing Red"
Writer: Mark Gruenwald
Penciller: Kieron M. Dwyer
Inker: Allen Milgrom
Letterer: Jack Morelli
Colorist: Gregory A. Wright
Editor: Ralph Macchio
On Sale Date: October 11, 1988

48-49 – The Women in Captain America’s Life, featuring Sharon Carter. Text: Sharon Carter… Agent 13 of SHIELD and younger sister of Captain America’s wartime sweetheart. As a SHIELD operative, Sharon shared more combat action with Cap than any other woman. Forever torn between her devotion to her work and her love for Cap, Sharon met her untimely demise while on a field assignment for SHIELD.


Captain America 354 [ 11 ]
"Reawakening"
Writer: Mark Gruenwald
Penciller: Kieron M. Dwyer
Inker: Allen Milgrom
Letterer: Jack Morelli
Colorist: Bob Sharen
Editor: Ralph Macchio
On Sale Date: February 14, 1989

11 – Flashback to Captain America #102, which, when someone recounts it to Steve, Steve remembers it was Sharon who held the key and says that was the comic book version.


Avengers 322 [ 18 19 20 21 ]
"Into the Fire"
Writer: Mark Gruenwald
Penciller: Jim Reddington
Inker: Mickey Ritter
Letterer: Christopher P. Eliopoulos
Colorist: Joe Rosas
Editor: Howard A Mackie
On Sale Date: July 3, 1990

18 – Peggy is trying to raise Steve on comms to tell him how happy she is that the new room is operational when she accidentally calls up news footage of Sharon’s death. Except then the image of Sharon, still on fire, starts speaking to her.

19 – She thinks she imagined it, but then it looks like Sharon is on the security footage and is walking toward Corridor Wiz, where Peggy is. Sharon approaches her and tells her she has a visitor.

20 – Peggy argues with Sharon that she’s dead. Sharon says that, like Cap, Sharon isn’t dead anymore, either. Peggy insists that Sharon is dead; Sharon insists that she isn’t. Sharon recaps what happened to her and says Peggy was supposed to take care of her.

21 – Peggy apologizes and reveals that she’s almost twenty years older than Sharon, who tells her to join her in death and offers Peggy her hand. The two hug, and Peggy falls to the floor, seeming dead and surrounded by the same fire that had been around Sharon.


Avengers 324 [ 22 ]
"Armies of the Night"
Writer: Mark Gruenwald
Penciller: Richard Levins
Inker: Fred Fredericks
Letterer: Christopher P. Eliopoulos
Colorist: Joe Rosas
Editor: Howard A Mackie
On Sale Date: August 7, 1990

22 – It’s revealed that Sharon is an illusion cast by Mother Night, created because Sharon’s death is Peggy’s personal nightmare, and used to hypnotize Peggy into doing Mother Night’s bidding.


Avengers 325 [ Cover 18 19 ]
"Party Games"
Writer: Mark Gruenwald
Penciller: Richard Levins
Inker: Fred Fredericks
Letterer: Brad K Joyce
Colorist: Ed Lazellari
Editor: Howard A Mackie
On Sale Date: August 21, 1990

Cover – Sharon, on flames, is a party guest, duplicated throughout the party (maybe they’re serving burgers and she wanted more than the per person limit).

18 – Sharon is an illusion created by Mother Night; apparently, when Peggy and the others manipulated by Mother Night see her, they’re to consider Sharon an enemy and “neutralize her.”

19 – Peggy tries to kill a man, accusing him of mocking the memory of her sister, but he blocks the shot.


Guardians of the Galaxy 17 [ 16 ]
"Homecoming"
Writer/Penciller: Jim Valentino
Inker: Steve Montano
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Colorist: Evelyn Stein
Editor: Craig Anderson
On Sale Date: August 20, 1991

16 – Sharon appears in a flashback to Marvel Two-In-One #4.


Captain America Annual 11 [ 27 ]
"Captain America's Top 10 Villains"
Writer: George Caragonne
Artist: Larry Alexander
Letterer: Jonathan Babcock
Colorist: Renee Witterstaetter
Editor: Ralph Macchio
On Sale Date: July 7, 1992

27 – Steve tells Rachel Leighton about his villains, including Faustus. He recaps Sharon’s death and says he and Sharon were very much in love.



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Captain America Vol 6 #1 - Captain America Vol 7 #25

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Sam Wilson: Captain America #1 - Sam Wilson: Captain America #6