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I've always believed that all you need is one man to make a difference. To stand up when others are told to sit down. To speak loudly for those who have no voice. And to fight the good fight.

—Captain America

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Synopsis for "Courage"

Steve Rogers awakens from a dream where he saw himself as the old World War II hero Captain America fighting Nazi's during the war while the Pledge of Allegance booms in his mind. Awakening from yet another nightmare like this, Steve decides that he still won't tell his wife Peggy of these recurring dreams. The next morning he has breakfast with Peggy and his son, Rick, before picking up a ride with his co-worker Nathan to go to work at the factory.

Along the way, they listen to a radio report about the World Party which prompts a conversation about their possibly racist backgrounds. Steve is curious about the idea of Neo-Nazi's being in Philadelphia. As they drive by an old black man with flies hovering around him, Steve swears that he's seen the elderly African-American somewhere before but dismisses it to go to work. The man seems to recognise Steve too and utters the word “Captain”.

During their lunch break, Steve confides in his co-workers about the strange dreams that he's been having lately of himself as a costumed superhero. They all get a good laugh except for Nathan who rushes off to make a phone call on a secure line and tells someone that they may have a problem.

That night as Steve nods off watching television he has yet another dream about Captain America. This dream frightens him as well but he still can't find a way to tell his wife about it.

The next night elsewhere in Philadelphia, Rebecca Barnes is upset that she got rejected from the Juilliard Dance Academy. She is confronted by her brother John and his friend Gus, nicknamed “Lunk”, who suggest that she wasn't given a spot in the school because she is white. Rikki finds this assertion ridiculous, and is shocked that her brother is going off to listen to a speech being given at a World Party rally. Her attempts to stop her brother from going, suggesting that their grandfather won’t allow John to go and standing in his way, fail miserably as Lunk easily pushes her aside.

While at the church headquarters of the World Party, Alexander, the World Party's leader and former Nazi super-soldier Master Man, muses about what the architects of the Nazi Party (Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler), would do if they knew their dream wouldn’t be achieved until after they were long dead. His thoughts are interrupted when he receives a report from his minion, Hauptman, telling him that they have spotted the “old man” right there in Philadelphia. Alexander tells him that the man wouldn’t be there unless he had a reason and for Hauptman to find out why the man is there before Hauptman kills him. He then asks why the mysterious man has been able to evade Hauptman’s previous attempts to kill him, with Hauptman insisting that this time he won’t fail. When asked about the shield, Hauptman also insists that he will retrieve it too. Master Man then makes his way onto the stage for the World Party rally.

As Master Man gives his thinly veiled hate speech, S.H.I.E.L.D. Special Agent Hunt, who has infiltrated the World Party, goes snooping around and is horrified to find a stockpile of nuclear missiles located below the church. However, before he can radio in his findings, he is captured by some mysterious being whom Hunt is shocked to see alive and well.

At this time Steve Rogers is walking the streets, trying to figure out what all the strange dreams he's been having are about, when he's suddenly confronted by the strange old man he saw earlier, who again addresses him as “Captain”. Steve insists the man must be mistaken and that Steve isn’t a Captain. The man asks Steve to walk him home, where he has something to show Steve. After startling Steve by using his name the man starts walking away.

The man introduces himself as Abraham Wilson, who convinces Steve to follow him to an old warehouse and says that he met Steve during World War II. where he reveals to him the shield of Captain America. Abraham then tells Steve that he's really Captain America, and that Abraham has been spending the better part of his life tracking down Cap's lost shield and then Captain America himself since he went missing after the war.

Just as Abraham hands over Cap's shield to Steve, agents of the World Party blow up the warehouse. Steve pulls himself out of the rubble, remembering that he is in reality Captain America. He orders the armed men to stand down, and when they refuse to do so he soundly beats them. Realizing that Abraham is still in the rubble, Steve digs him out to find him dying. Abraham tells him to go to his wife and son as they are not safe before he dies, and Steve vows to get revenge on his killers if it's the last thing he does.

Meanwhile, aboard the SHIELD helicarrier, Timothy Dugan and Sharon Carter report to Nick Fury to advise him that Captain America has been revived. Fury is determined to make Captain America come back with him to SHIELD headquarters or force him to do so.

This story is continued next issue...

Notes

Errors

  • Page 8: The word supremacist is spelled incorrectly as supremist.
  • Page 15: Juilliard School is spelled incorrectly as Julliard.
  • Page 20: Hess is spelled incorrectly as Hesse.
  • Page 23: Shmidt is spelled incorrectly as Schmidt.

Trivia

  • The song that plays on the television as Steve falls asleep is God Bless America written by Irving Berlin.
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov is referenced as Rebecca Barnes had been to see him perform at the Lincoln Center.
  • Gene Kelly’s death, which took place a few months before this issue was published, is referenced. This may mean the year on Counter-Earth is 1996 since it’s mentioned that Rebecca Barnes cried on the day that he died.
  • Hauptmann is a Rank in German Military. It is the equivalent of a Captain in the U.S. Army.
  • Master Man mentions that the Nazi Party’s dreams would be achieved on this version of Earth only after the deaths of its architects. Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler died in 1945, and Hess in 1987. Presumably the history of Counter-Earth, in that respect, matches that of Earth-616.

See Also

Links and References

  • The Grand Comics Database: Captain America Vol II [1]

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