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THE TRUTH: RED WHITE and BLACK.
MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL series starring The Black Captain America!
Detailing the complete saga of the African American Captain America who fought injustice during World War 2!
Published by Marvel Comics, the creators of such beloved superheroes a Spiderman, X-Men, The Hulk, Daredevil, Iron Man, and of course, CAPTAIN AMERICA.
This comic book series, published in 2003, revealed that the ORIGINAL Captain America was in fact a Black American Soldier.
At the time, it garnered a flurry of media attention, and the series sold out and became instant collector's items.
The series is written and drawn by African American writer Robert Morales and artist Kyle Baker.
Printed on glossy paperstock and cardstock cover to enhance the full color expressive style of Baker's illustrations.
Truth writer Robert Morales took a lead from the “Tuskegee experiment.” The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a real-life clinical study in which poor Black men were denied treatment for syphilis, so that the doctors involved could study how the disease spreads through the body and eventually kills the infected person.
Morales posed the questions: What if realizing that the “Super Soldier” serum was potentially so dangerous and perhaps fatal that before testing it on a white man (Rogers), the government tested it on Black soldiers.
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. Becoming Captain America for one 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, and the cost of the Super Soldier serum in creating the Captain America known to most for the past century.
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