 In attaining the position of Editor-in-Chief, he became only the third person in 15 years to hold the position, and one of the few in the company's history to gain it "without tumult or corporate bloodshed".The last few years of Alonso's tenure as Editor in Chief saw Marvel deal with both dwindling sales and public controversies.In May 2016 a storyline that saw Captain America transformed by timeline manipulation into a double agent for the evil, Nazi-like organization Hydra prompted such criticism that Marvel released a statement indicating to readers the character would eventually be reverted to his original benevolent, patriotic identity, which occurred in August 2017.