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The New Patriot From Secret Empire Actually Appeared Two Months Ago (Captain America: Sam Wilson Spoilers)

The first Patriot, Jeffrey Mace, created by writer Ray Gill and artist Bill Everett, debuted in The Human Torch #4 in 1941. He was a reporter who became a costumed adventurer after seeing Captain America in action, and was later a member of the World War II superhero team the Liberty Legion. The Patriot himself became the third Captain America. The second Marvel Universe character to use the name Patriot debuted in Young Avengers #1 in 2005, Eli Bradley, grandson of Isaiah Bradley, the original black Captain America.

Secret Empire: Brave New World sees a new Patriot character pick up the name and costume. But who is he?

Well, today's Captain America: Sam Wilson #21 gives us a better idea.

With a certain someone, out on the streets in painted face and costume, picking up Sam Wilson's "Captain America No More" speech, with his own costume designs and names ready…

Rayshaun. Who we have seen in previous issues… Captain America: Sam Wilson #19, inspired by the unjust guilty version against Rage, to paint his face in that manner, take to the streets and throw a molotov cocktail at a bank.

And also in Secret Empire #1 previews, Rayshun Lucas.

That's the new Patriot.

Whatever the justification, and Captain America: Sam Wilson goes out of its way to show those as valid and real, the new Patriot appears to have begun his masked career as a terrorist. And now fighting the Secret Empire

Just one now fighting the Secret Empire…

Captain America: Sam Wilson #21 by Nick Spencer and Daniel Acuna is published by Marvel Comics today.

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