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Sales of Captain America: Steve Rogers fell from #5 in sales for the first issue in May (99,768) to #36 in sales for the second issue in June (66,416).

What YOU can do:

- Keep boycotting the comic, and keep informing people who buy comics about the important points behind the boycott, and WHY the boycott is important to YOU. If you unsubscribe from Marvel Unlimited, click the comment box and tell Marvel it’s because of Hydra Cap. Be patient and polite with comics shop staff and other fans.

- Keep sending tweets, comments (here), email (here) and letters to Marvel (address here). Remember to mark your email and letters “Okay to Print”. Explain why HydraCap offends YOU. Be respectful when stating your case.

- Disney is Marvel’s parent corporation. Contact Disney (here) and politely inform them you are boycotting Marvel comics, dvds, toys and other merchandise because of HydraCap. Again, explain WHY it’s offensive.

- Keep using the  #CapIsNotHydra and #SayNoToHydraCap hashtags on social media. Add @marvelentertainment to your Tumblr posts so that marvelentertainment.tumblr.com receives notification. Remind people that Marvel has yet to address the insensitivity and disrespect in making an icon of freedom into a life-long member of Hydra.

- Sign a petition: here and here .

- Donate the price of one issue or of one subscription to the comic to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (here) and/or the Anti-Defamation League(here) and/or the Disabled American Veterans (here). Help some good come out of this for those most disrespected by the HydraCap plot twist!

- Participate in the #WeNeedHeroesProject, a fandom initiative (not just focusing on Steve Rogers and Captain America, but all our favorite heroes) that highlights the goodness of these people we know and love. Write a oneshot, drabble, gifset, or fanart that highlights the heroics and goodness of whatever Marvel hero you choose. Tag it with #WeNeedHeroesProject so it can add it to the masterlist. More infomation here.

I have been a fan for many years. My first comic was a Marvel comic. When I was six. Over 30 years ago. You have never failed to disappoint me... until now.

Now you are whitewashing characters, erasing back stories, belittling the most badass female characters to have ever been invented, and expect the fandom to swallow it whole. A large portion of your fan base is not happy. Not at all.

We are angry about Gamora being made into nothing but a green girl in a tight suit. One of the best assassins in the galaxy - reduced to a love interest for a womanizing schmuck with a spaceship. Not likely, in any way.

We are angry about Black Widow not getting her own standalone movie. A character that is known and loved in the movie universe, whose fans have been asking for a movie since she first came on the scene. We want to know what happened in Budapest. We want the story behind her on the big screen. Yet we have been denied, time and again.

We are angry about the role of Doctor Strange being given to Benedict Cumberbatch. We don't want another white actor with a history of violence against women, misogynistic behavior, and elitist attitudes. We want somebody with a different ethnic background - Doctor Strange in the comics has no canon ethnic identity, and could be cast as someone from just about anywhere. We want somebody who actually looks like the character.

Your latest insult is ignoring the years of backstory that have been built around the Lehnsherr/Maximoff family. These are characters that have been fully developed. They have been taken in, loved, and hated by the fandom. Pietro and Wanda ARE Magneto's children. They ARE mutants. They ARE Jewist/Romani descent. Yet, instead of simply hiring Romani or Jewish actors and representing minority groups, you have found it easier to erase this long history to be able to hire white actors.

As a longtime fan, I urge you to consider these mistakes. I have been with you for many years. In fact, my attraction to the Marvel universe has lasted longer than any other relationship in my life (even longer than contact with my family). However, if you continue to ignore your fans, you will be losing many of us.

We want good representation of female superheroes, not a bone tossed to us in the hopes we will go away.

We want good representation of multiple ethnicities, which line up with what has been established in the comics.

We want actors and actresses who are not abusive to other human beings.