What If...? introduced us to a Peggy Carter Variant who took the Super Soldier Serum in place of Steve Rogers. Now, another version of that character is coming to the Marvel Universe in the pages of Captain Carter #1 next March from the creative team of Jamie McKelvie (Young Avengers) and artist Marika Cresta (Star Wars: Doctor Aphra). McKelvie has also redesigned Carter's costume.
The five-issue limited series will introduce Captain Carter in an adventure that finds Peggy Carter as a woman out of time, facing the reappearance of an old foe in the modern-day and deciding what she stands for as the wielder of the shield.
In a reality where Agent Peggy Carter took the Super-Soldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers, the hero is pulled from the ice after being lost in action during World War II. Peggy struggles to find her footing in a modern world that’s gotten a lot more complicated – cities are louder, technology is smarter and enemies wear friendly faces. Everyone with an agenda wants Captain Carter on their side, but what does Peggy want and will she have time to figure it out when mysterious forces are gunning for her?
"I'm as big a fan of the Captain Carter we've seen onscreen as anybody, so I jumped at the chance to create our own version," McKelvie says. "I'm having a great time exploring what it would be like for Peggy to wake up nearly 80 years after the end of the war. The world remembers the myth of Captain Carter, but to Peggy the reality was just yesterday. Now she finds herself in a nearly unrecognizable new world, how does she fit in? Can she be the super hero people want her to be? Exploring these questions has been really exciting."
The first issue of Captain Carter arrives on March 9, and you can check out both the cover art for issue #1 and McKelvie's take on Peggy's new costume below: