When Does "Truth: Red, White & Black" #6 (2003) Take Place?
"Truth: Red, White & Black" #6 "The Whitewash" is a superhero comic-book written by Robert Morales that released June 18th, 2003. So when is "Truth: Red, White & Black" #6 set?
It takes place on the fictional Marvel Universe timeline roughly in the years:
We know this because the epilogue of the previous issue, "Truth: Red, White & Black" #5 (2003), flows directly into this issue and its setting is also the setting of this issue's main action. It is a largely unplaceable work other than fitting into the current 'present day' of the main Marvel Universe's Steve Rogers/Captain America.
2000s AD
We know this because the epilogue of the previous issue, "Truth: Red, White & Black" #5 (2003), flows directly into this issue and its setting is also the setting of this issue's main action. It is a largely unplaceable work other than fitting into the current 'present day' of the main Marvel Universe's Steve Rogers/Captain America.
Additionally, there is a flashback within this issue to 1942 AD.
If one accepts the concept of the sliding timescale of the Marvel Universe, the events of this story might only take place at this point from its own point-of-view and they might move forward in time relative to new stories. Galactus, a god-like character with this fictional universe says in "The Utimates" #5 v2 that 'The present moment--the "now"--hurtles from past to future along a stream of events. And events have weight. Sometimes, the weight is vast--sometimes, so light as to be undetectable. But some events--those with a peculiar, unique gravity-- are caught by the present. Dragged in its wake, like planets about a sun. Always just a handful of years behind...' As Douglas Wolk wrote in 2021, "The big Marvel story is a funhouse-mirror history".
This comic-book was retroactively collected into a hardcover and paperback re-titled "Captain America: Truth: Red, White & Black".
It is a chronologically midway comic in the Marvel Comics Universe multiverse timeline. It can be read after the previous issue, "Truth: Red, White & Black" #5 (2003).
