I have a theory that Marvel has a standing propaganda deal with the government. If you go through their history, there wasn't one of these they didn't glom onto, from the Cold War to the War on Drugs to the somewhat suspect early volumes(much as I love them) of the Ultimates. I mean, even getting Thor in the Just Say No thing. Then again, there was, over at DC, Marv Wolfman at his most insufferably preachy on that subject. (actually, the degree and type of his moralizing in his 80s comics makes me wonder at times if he got mugged and had a religious conversion simultaneously sometime in 1980)