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Dear Captain America

Summary:

Young Tony Stark writes fan mail to his personal hero.

A maze of personal correspondence from the desk of Tony Stark, ages 8-13.

(This story is currently abandoned. My apologies!)

Notes:

There are a lot of small character cameos, and characters who are not explicitly named. If you are the first reader to guess who one of them is, you can choose any character you like (within the bounds of some rules) to also appear as a cameo. It's like a fun game!

(See the end of the work for more notes and other works inspired by this one.)

Chapter 1: Winter, 1979: Dear Captain America

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Dear Captain America,

My name is Tony. I am eight. I know you're not really Captain America. You're a writer at Timely Comics who pretends to be Captain America on the letters page of the comic book, but that's all right, because you are the one who thinks like the character in the comics, so it's almost the same thing. Who knows what the real Steve Rogers thought? For all we know, he could have been an asshole. a real jerk.

So I wanted to write to you because I saw a mistake in the last comic book. The schematics for the hovercraft that the Grand Director was piloting just would not work. There wouldn't be enough lift. It might work now, if you used a lightweight aluminum alloy, but in the 1940s, the engine would just have had to be too large and would weigh the whole thing down.

I've drawn you blueprints for a better hovercraft that could have been built using 1940s technology. I hope you like it.

Sincerely,

Tony Stark

Notes:

Timely Comics is the company that published the original run of Captain America, and eventually evolved into Marvel Comics. For the sake of this fan canon, I've decided that since Captain America continued to be published into the 1970s, Timely Comics continued to exist in this world.