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Truth: Red, White & Black
Series · 5 books · 2004-2019

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Decades

Marvel in the '00s - Hitting the Deadlines

2019

Celebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics, decade by decade - with high-profile stories that sparked a media frenzy in the Tumultuous 2000s! The House of Ideas garnered mainstream attention like never before as they shook things up, introducing a brand new Ultimate universe for a new generation of readers! Telling the story they said could never be told...the origin of Wolverine! And revealing hidden secrets of the program that produced Captain America! Red-hot creator Joss Whedon revamped the X-Men, while Civil War led to Spider-Man's secret identity going public - and Captain America's shocking death! Plus, living legends meet when Spider-Man teams up with President Barack Obama! COLLECTING: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN (2000) 1; ORIGIN 2; ULTIMATES (2002) 1; TRUTH: RED, WHITE & BLACK 1; ASTONISHING X-MEN (2004) 1; CIVIL WAR (2006) 2; CAPTAIN AMERICA (2004) 25; MATERIAL FROM AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) 583
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Truth

Red, White and Black #2

2018

Witness the shocking secret history of Captain America! And it's not Steve Rogers!
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Truth

Red, White and Black #3

2018

What is the secret behind the process that made Captain America?
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Truth

Red, White and Black #7

2018

STEVE ROGERS appears in this conclusion to the hit mini-series issue, as the paths of the two Captain Americas cross for the first time. Will it be the last?
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Captain America

Truth - Red, White & Black

2004

In 1940, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Captain America, a frail patriot who was transformed by a "super-soldier serum" into a physically perfect specimen to champion freedom, an American alternative to the Nazi uebermensch. Now, writer Morales pursues this idea and also draws inspiration from U.S. government experiments in the 1930s that left unwitting African-Americans infected with syphilis, leading to many deaths. Beginning his story in 1940, Morales incisively depicts the racism his various African-American characters confront both in civilian life and in the military. These black soldiers are compelled to act as test subjects for the super-soldier serum; some die, while others become deformed. Ultimately only one survives, Isaiah Bradley. Substituting for Captain America on a mission, Bradley discovers Jewish concentration camp inmates subjected to experiments. Ranging from heroic figures to pointed caricatures, artist Baker makes his varied styles gel. Drawing on copious research, Morales dramatizes how racism corrupted American history, yet verges close to asserting moral equivalency between America and Nazi Germany. Roosevelt was ultimately in charge of the super-soldier program: would he have approved these human experiments? Besides, how can one talk about "truth" regarding a fictional creation? Simon and Kirby devised a fable about an American everyman tapping his inner strength to combat genocidal fascism; Kirby helped pioneer positive depictions of blacks in comics. By adding Morales' backstory to Captain America's origin, Marvel has turned the character into a white superman who owes his powers to the deaths and exploitation of African-Americans.

Authors

Kyle Baker
Kyle Baker
Author · 17 books

Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man. Baker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work in the comics field.

Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis
Author · 511 books

A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts. Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce. Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly. Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six. Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion. He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.

Robert Morales
Author · 8 books

Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

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