Captain America Became Nomad

In late 1974, in the Marvel Comics, Steve Rogers abandoned the Captain America identity after discovering that the leader of the Secret Empire was a high-ranking U.S. government official heavily implied to be President Richard Nixon, a storyline that clearly echoed the post-Watergate mood in America. Shaken by that betrayal and the wider disillusionment of the Vietnam and Watergate era, Rogers concluded that he could no longer serve as a symbol tied so directly to the government. He then took the name Nomad, which the comic explicitly framed as meaning “man without a country,” and debuted the identity in Captain America #180.

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