Yes, while this issue serves as a super-hero vs super-hero battle that fans love, it also touches on some interesting social issues that are still relevant today.

Captain America agrees to work along with the less than angelic Tarantula in order to aid in the battle against communism, a very topical issue to bring up not long after the Iran-Contra scandal and during the tail-end of the Cold War. Captain America is also unsure, who is the terrorist and who is the freedom fighter.

The refugees being detained after fleeing their country and fearing the US is relevant today, as we have candidates running for President on platforms of walling off our borders keeping out immigrants from Latin America and banning refugees of certain backgrounds all together. It’s interesting to see Peter and Mary Jane looking into Amnesty for an undocumented alien in the 1980’s, not a system you would expect to be in place in the 1980’s and something we still debate today.