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[[File:SterankoCaptAm-page.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An excerpt of Rick Jones' hallucination in ''Captain America'' #111, showcasing Steranko's [[surrealist]] art style]]
After publishing ''Captain America'' #109, which features a retelling of Captain America's [[origin story]], Kirby departed as the regular artist for the series.{{sfn|Saunders|2022|p=xxxv}} Steranko requested and was given authorship of ''Captain America'' by Lee in part to resolve a dispute between the two: Steranko had quit "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." after Lee placed a [[fill-in]] issue in the middle of Steranko's run that Steranko felt had broken the series' continuity.{{sfn|Steranko|2022|p=348}} Comics scholar [[Ben Saunders (professor)|Ben Saunders]] notes how Steranko's run on "Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." had elevated
Steranko sought to reestablish what he saw as "the formula that had made [Captain America] a cultural icon".{{sfn|Steranko|2022|p=348}} To this end, he had three primary goals for his run: the first was to reestablish Captain America's secret identity, following his unmasking in ''Captain America'' #105 (1968). Steranko felt this decision had diminished "the universal mystique once surrounding" the character, and made him "something less than the quintessential symbol of patriotism".{{sfn|Steranko|2022|p=349}} He also sought to resolve the character's ongoing guilt over the death of his wartime sidekick [[Bucky Barnes]], and to introduce new villians who were more contemporary than the Nazi adversaries the character continued to face.{{sfn|Steranko|2022|p=349}} The former was resolved through the introduction of Rick Jones as the new Bucky – that the new Bucky would be Jones was a directive from Lee, according to Steranko<ref name="GCD110"/> – while the former was resolved through the addition of Hydra, who Steranko had previously used as villains in "Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."{{sfn|Steranko|2022|p=349}}
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