In Falcon and Winter Soldier, it’s Bucky who knows about Isaiah, not Sam. Isaiah also seems to have kept his mental faculties, but at the loss of his notoriety among the Black superhero community. He battled Hydra, was sent on an unenviable mission to deal with an unstoppable assassin who had killed every other operative sent after him, and when the war was over he was jailed for 30 years and experimented on, including by Hydra agents.
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He was still part of an American attempt to recreate the serum that gave Steve Rogers his powers, but the series puts his service in the 1950s, during the Korean War. Isaiah in Falcon and the Winter Soldierįrom his brief appearance in Falcon and Winter Soldier’s second episode, it seems that the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Isaiah, played by Carl Lumbly, is not that different from the one in the comics. In the Marvel Universe he remains a legend among the Black community only, and especially among Black superheroes. Between the serum and the confinement, he developed severe dementia, and no attempt at reparations for the damage done to his life or other Black lives in the pursuit of the Army’s secret post-Captain America super-soldier program was ever made. He was eventually quietly pardoned, thanks to the advocacy of his wife, but only after serving 17 years in solitary confinement with little to no medical treatment for the physical toll that the bootleg super-soldier serum took on him. Image: Reginald Hudlin, Soct Eaton/Marvel Comics Luke Cage (speaking) is another Black Marvel superhero who got his powers from forced experimentation, seen here at the wedding of Storm and Black Panther. When he was smuggled back to America, however, he was court-martialed and given life in prison for stealing Captain America’s costume. He gets captured by Nazi elite, who plan to dissect him and mail his body parts back to the Allied forces, but is rescued and kept in hiding by German resistance fighters with Black members in their ranks. Thanks to the serum, Isaiah does not die on his suicide mission. Baker’s loose cartooning style, honed on comedic comics, allows the emotions of the series to read bigger and broader than they would in a Marvel house style, and each issue is a punch in the gut. Just before the mission, he stole a Captain America uniform to wear, and succeeded in destroying the Nazi base, in a harrowing sequence in which he stumbles through rooms stacked high with piles of corpses, finds vivisected children still on examination tables, and is gassed along with Jewish prisoners.ĭescribing the concept of Truth belies in many ways the emotional power that Morales and Baker packed into its seven issues, through meticulous research and expert characterization. army’s motivational comics about the new super-soldier known as Captain America - Bradley connected the dots between what had happened to him and the story of Steve Rogers. In the action climax of the series, Bradley was ordered on a one-man suicide mission to destroy the Nazi’s super-soldier experimentation site.Ī fan of comic books - including the U.S. In the pages of their series, Morales and Baker introduced an ensemble cast to represent numerous different facets of early-20th century Black life in America, but the only one of them to survive the ravages of war crimes, forced experimentation, and the whims of racist officers was Isaiah Bradley, a new father of a baby girl he’d never met.
Image: Robert Morales, Kyle Baker/Marvel Comics But they didn’t.” Steve Rogers looks at the wall Isaiah’s wife keeps of photos of him with admirers, in Truth: Red, White & Black. Then editor in chief of Marvel Comics Alex Alonso asked Morales to pitch on the idea of a Black Captain America who was created by the same real, historical, and racist philosophies behind criminal medical studies like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and other campaigns of experimentation and forced sterilization.Īfter coming up with a supporting cast and an ending, Morales has said “I wrote a proposal that was so staggeringly depressing I was certain they’d turn it down. government’s attempts to compete with Nazi Germany’s super-soldier program by reengineering the lost super-soldier formula that turned Steve Rogers into Captain America, through the murder of and forced experimentation on 300 Black army soldiers.
Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s creator on race and Captain AmericaĪs a concept, the book was rather simple: A story about the U.S.
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