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CAPTAIN AMERICA HISTORY

CAPTAIN AMERICA 1 STEVE ROGERS

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CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 WILLIAM NASLUND [THE SPIRIT OF 76]

When the original Captain America, Steve Rogers, and his sidekick, Bucky Barnes, went missing in action in 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman recruited Naslund and a young man named Fred Davis to become the new Captain America and Bucky.^[the new Captain America stopped a Nazi plot to destroy the Potsdam Conference. They briefly fought alongside the post-war All-Winners Squad, Naslund was killed in 1946 in the line of duty when he was crushed to death by a robot serving

the android named Adam II while warning the rest of the All-Winners Squad of Adam II's attempt to kidnap or kill then-Congressional candidate John F. Kennedy in Boston

CAPTAIN AMERICA 3 JEFFERY MACE [PATRIOT]

Jeffrey Mace was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a reporter at the Daily Bugle, who was inspired to become a superhero after seeing Captain America in action. As the Patriot, Mace becomes one of several superheroes who fight Nazi saboteurs and supervillains duringWorld War II, He he

lps found the superhero team the Liberty Legion, billed as "America's home front heroes" who fight saboteurs, Fifth Columnists and other wartime threats within the United States.

After the war, the Patriot continues to fight crime on a regular basis, eventually helping the All-Winners Squad prevent the assassination of a young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1946. The skirmish costs the life of the second Captain America, William Naslund, formerly theSpirit of '76. Mace is recruited to be the third Captain America, retiring in 1949. He marries Betsy Ross, who as the superhero Golden Girlhad briefly been the post-war sidekick of his Captain America, and in modern times succumbs to cancer at an old age.^[

CAPTAIN AMERICA 4 WILLIAM BURNSIDE [GRAND DIRECTOR]

Having idolized the original Cap to the point of obsession, the future 50s Captain America focuses his life in an intense analysis of American history with Captain America as its best representative. He attains a PhD in American History in the early 1950s , with a thesis on the life of Captain America. Soon after graduating, he further researched the secret "Project: Rebirth" and discovered private Nazi files revealing the true identity of the original Captain America as well as the lost Super Soldier serum formula.

William returns to the United States with this information and legally changes his name. Then he approaches the FBI offering the Super Soldier serum as leverage to become the next Captain America as a symbol during the Korean War.

He undergoes surgery to get the physical appearance and voice of Rogers. After all of this preparation, the situation in Korea changes and the FBI cancels the project.

The FBI sets up the new Rogers at the private preparatory Lee High School in Connecticut to take advantage of his extensive American history background as a teacher. He beg

an wearing glasses and smoking a pipe and settled into his quiet life as a teacher. He found an intense advocate in James "Jack" Monroe who shared his obsessive fascination on the wartime exploits of the original Cap. When the Red Skull resurfaces in the mid-1950s (this communist Red Skull was not the Nazi original but a successor) attacking the United Nations in an elaborate scheme now promoting Communism, "Rogers" takes matters into his own hands and injects himself and Monroe with a sample of the unproven "Super-Soldier Formula" and goes off with him to confront the Red Skull as the new Cap and Bucky. However, without the vita-ray exposure Rogers received to activate and stabilize the serum, his 1950s successors underwent a dangerously flawed application.

Although initially accepted in the roles of the new Captain America and Bucky, the radiologically untreated formula they ingested eventually gave them psychotic symptoms. The two become unreliable with a violent paranoia that led them to attacking innocents simply for their race or for holding opinions that even remotely differed from their own. They were arrested and put into suspended animation by government agents.

The "Captain America of the 1950s" and his "Bucky" are kept in suspended animation until they are reawakened decades later. The still mentally ill duo were sent out to kill the original Captain and his then-partner Falcon. They were defeated by the heroes and returned to their suspended animation, although Rogers had the disquieting thought that he could have suffered his 1950s successor's fa

te himself in the same circumstances.

They are given over to the custody of the psychologist Doctor

Faustus for treatment. he mind-controls the 1950s Captain

in an attempt to use him against the World War II Steve Rogers. William returns as "The Grand Director",the leader of a Neo-Nazi group called "The National Force" under the mind control of Dr. Faustus. Faustus orders the Grand Director to kill Captain America and Daredevil. Instead, horrified with the revelation of his manipulation against his former identity as 1950s Captain America, the Grand Director curls up into the fetal position and presses a button on his utility belt engulfing his body in flames

CAPTAIN AMERICA 5 JOHN F. WALKER [U.S AGENT]

Soon after, the original Captain America, Steve Rogers, was forced to abandon his costume and identity or blindly serve the U.S. Government. Rogers resigned, donning a black costume and called himself the Captain. Dr. Valerie Cooper, a member of the Commission on Superhuman Activities, suggested that Walker should be made the new Captain America, as a U.S. government operative. After a meeting with her, Walker was made the fifth Captain America. The Commission's chairman, Douglas Rockwell, was secretly an ally of the Red Skull. The Red Skull came up with the plan of destroying Captain America's image, and at this point his plan was working as Walker was more brutal than his predecessor, due to his reactionary points of view.

CAPTAIN AMERICA 6 JAMES BUCHANAN 'BUCKY' BARNES

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