Wrong on so many levels.  Marvel and DC should be ashamed.

The thing is the story was about Captain America that finds out that the Red Skull is actually his son. This boy born with his father's powers although he grew arrogant and abusive of his powers. He became his father opposite and hated Cap so much that the kid decided to skin his whole head off thus the Red Skull. This Red Skull is a neo nazi, he kills and tortures everybody, men, women, and children. There's a scene where he deliberately toss a baby out of the window to death. The book is very graphic.

I wouldn't give it to a child to read it in a million years. If I were a child wouldn't want to read it. Even now that story give me a chill.

Edited to add:

At the end captain America literally NAILS his son with an aircraft he is send to an hospital and female member of the avengers shot him in the head while his on the hospital bed as a vengeance, it seems that he had raped her.

Foot note: I hate that story.

My only possible reservation is that I am not sure to what degree, if any at all, reading is an activity that kids opt for today as opposed to the late 60s/early 70s when I became aware of comicbooks, not because of increased alternative activities and distractions but perhaps because of a cultural loss of reading overall and particularly at leisure. Anything kids enjoy, today or back whenever, I believe they would make time for, comicbooks included. But, perhaps, contemporary kids are more disconnected from reading for pleasure because the culture overall no longer is as physically paper-book-based as it used to be. Perhaps? I have no stats or studies to cite, mind you, so this could just be an awfully big stretch to help explain what -- back to Matt's point -- is a more simply understandable phenomenon: comicbooks are no longer child-friendly product.

In '08 I went to Japan for four years.  Hadn't seen any North

American comics while there, besides the ones I brought with 

me, which, by the way, were universally mocked for their slim-

ness (lack of pages), price, and ridiculous number of ads.

Upon my return I visited an LCS in San Diego to peruse the racks

and couldn't believe my eyes at the trashy-uber violence my

beloved comics had attained to.

At the time, my wife was eight months pregnant and I lamented 

not being able to introduce my kid to anything new.  Today, my

daughter is 14 months, and while Free Comic Book Day had a nice

Spongebob Squarepants comic book for her to shred, there wasn't

anything super-hero-ish I can imagine inviting her to read.

Not by a long shot.