It's a given in the comic book reading world that superheroes just go on and on and usually end up recycled, re-imaged, revamped or in Hollywood.
The artist and writer here, Jim Starlin, apparently got some form of agreement with the suits running Marvel Comics that dead really did mean dead this time round for Captain Marvel. To be honest the character never really did make the big time comic book or comic sales wise. Maybe words like metamorphosis in the title of some of his adventures might just have put some readers off. (It didn't in my case but you already new that didn't you!)
But cancer takes it's toll and Captain Marvel exits stage left, chased by a shrinking audience.
Going back to that Hollywood thing for a moment, if you look at the cover and Captain Marvel is surrounded by superheroes, with the exception of Thor, have had either a TV series or a movie or, in the case of the Hulk, both.
I feel they all walked over the good Captain's corpse to get there too.
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