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Don't tell me you haven't heard of Isaiah Bradley -- The black Captain America!?

—Agent Damian Spinrad

Appearing in "Part Six: The Whitewash"

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Synopsis for "Part Six: The Whitewash"

Five days before Steve visited Faith, he visited Merritt at Lompoc Federal Prison in California and he remembered him being present when Doctor Reinstein was killed before accusing him of firebombing his lab and destroying his life's work as it happened. Then, Agent Damian Spinrad of the F.B.I. showed photos of a damaged Captain America suit, along with a photo of Hitler and a Nazi flag, in his warehouse.

In October, 1942, Isaiah woke up in an office Berlin chained to a chair with a Captain America reel playing before Hitler and Goebbels both offered to "help free his people when the time comes" if he stood with them, although he declined.

Back in the present, Merritt told Captain America that he chose the Super-Soldier Program because he read the first issue of Captain America and was enraged, insisting that the black soldiers who were sent out on missions resented him and were "jealous" of his costume. He also recalled how he believed that America was on "the wrong side" and how Hitler was "protecting" Germany from outsiders before Agent Spinrad revealed that he was part-German and that his grandparents were active in the Resistance. Merritt revealed that he retrieved the costume from Isaiah and Spinrad was surprised when Steve had never heard of him.

Back in 1942, Hitler and Goebbels planned to have Mengele make an example of Isaiah before the Nazi leader told the American soldier that a doctor would treat his wounds and that they would release him.

In the present, Steve walked out of the room because Merritt didn't know what happened to Bradley. Spinrad followed him and told him the story of how resistance members, including his grandfather Klaus, attacked carrying a chained Isaiah Bradley on the way to Auschwitz and freed him.

Notes

  • The flashbacks in this comic take place in October 1942.

Trivia

  • Agent Spinrad claimed that Denzel Washington and Spike Lee were going to make a film about Isaiah Bradley before making Malcolm X, instead.
  • In prison, Merritt had a photo of Captain America with John Ney Rieber's and John Cassaday's names on it.

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