Bucky says this from a place of honesty, and without ill-intent, but we’re reminded that he is a white man who grew up in the first half of the 20th century. When Sam asks if Steve knew about Isaiah Bradley, Bucky says he never told him, not wanting to give Steve another burden. How do you represent a country that has never represented your people? It’s a question that Steve Rogers, and now John Walker, never had to consider. The encounter gets to the root of Sam’s hesitation to take up the mantle of Captain America. Though their reunion is brief, Bradley clearly remembers his encounter with Barnes, and still has much of his physical prowess, though clearly no love for the government that experimented on and imprisoned him.
government during the Korean War, leading to a fight with the Winter Soldier that cost Barnes half his metal arm. Portrayed by Carl Lumbly, Isaiah Bradley is revealed to have served the U.S. The latest episode of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the first significant mention of Isaiah Bradley in a Marvel property in nearly a decade.
A decade after it debuted, Truth became a hard-to-find collector’s item, the Black Captain America, a piece of little-known trivia, and the character’s name and legacy left largely unmentioned in the pages of Marvel Comics. Josiah X hasn’t appeared since 2004, Elijah Bradley since 2012, and a new character, Rayshaun Lucas, has taken up the mantle of Patriot. When Disney purchased Marvel in 2009, Truth went out of print and hasn’t been republished since, though it was recently released digitally on Marvel Unlimited and ComiXology as of last year. In 2005, Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung introduced Elijah Bradley, the grandson of Isaiah who took up the role of the Patriot as a member of the Young Avengers. Christopher Priest and Joe Bennett introduced the son of Isaiah Bradley, Josiah X, in summer 2003, immediately after Truth reached its conclusion. Still, Truth was impossible to ignore, at least for a time. Morales’ career at Marvel, and work on the ongoing Captain America comic, was cut short by the controversy that followed him. government to task the way he did in a mainstream comic, especially so soon after 9/11, is nothing short of a marvel. Using the Tuskegee Study as inspiration, Morales pulled no punches in the writing of Truth. There was also the fact that Truth is powerfully tragic, Baker’s cartoonish art style catching readers unprepared for the brutal nature of the story. Naturally, Truth proved to be controversial among those who felt the book ruined Steve Rogers’ legacy, as well as racists incensed by the powerful image of a Black man clad in the Captain America uniform. They sterilized him and harvested his sperm and blood for further experiments, while denying him the treatment required for the side effects of the serum, leaving him with the mental capabilities of a child when he was eventually pardoned in the ’70s. And when the government was done with Bradley, they imprisoned him for 17 years for stealing Captain America’s uniform. government and the Nazis had more in common than most would care to believe, and that both systems are a business founded on class control for the benefit of the white and wealthy., Following the death of his squad mates who’d also survived the experiments and body horror that came with them, Isaiah Bradley became the government’s weapon, facing all the obstacles but receiving none of the glory that Steve Rogers received. The research later became the basis for the Nazis’ eugenics experiments. What eventually became the supersoldier serum was originally intended to cull “less desirable” bloodlines, sterilizing ethnic groups and people with disabilities. government experimented on 300 Black soldiers in an attempt to re-create the supersoldier serum in 1942. Within that work, it was revealed that Steve Rogers was not the first, or only, soldier to undergo Project Rebirth during World War II. In 2003, Marvel Comics published Truth: Red, White & Black, a miniseries written by the late Robert Morales and illustrated by Kyle Baker. This all creates tension with America’s newest heroes, John Walker, the new Captain America (Wyatt Russell) and his partner, Lemar Hoskins aka Battlestar (Clé Bennett). This leads Bucky to reveal a secret to Sam, one he kept even from Steve Rogers: America had another supersoldier that it used, and later abused, during the Korean War: Isaiah Bradley.
How does the burden of truth differ between a white man and a Black man? That’s the question at the core of the second episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, “The Star-Spangled Man.” Amidst Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes’ ( Sebastian Stan) efforts to take down the Flag-Smashers, they discover the border-breaking organization comprises supersoldiers.
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