Comic Book: Truth: Red, White and Black
What This Book is About:
Controversial miniseries posits that America's first super-soldier was an African-American test subject, Isaiah Bradley, whose heroism was covered up by the racist attitudes of that era.
Data Sheet:
Jan 2003 to Jul 2003
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Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Plus: Captain America (
Isaiah Bradley), Nazis, Josef Goebbels.
Comics Index
Total Indexed Comics:
7
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
January 2003"Truth, Part One: The Future"
Script: Robert MoralesJuly 1940: in New York, a young married couple, Isaiah and Faith Bradley visit the World’s Fair during the special Negro Week. They have a good time, until they are denied entrance to a show featuring white dancing girls because of their race…. [...]
February 2003"Truth, Part Two: The Basics"
Script: Robert MoralesAt Camp Cathcart, Mississippi, the Negro troops return from a morning of crawling through mud to the taunts of the white soldiers. Meanwhile, a Mr. Tully and a Dr. Reinstein are requesting two battalions of colored soldiers for an experiment in enhancing the performances of fighting men. [...]
March 2003"Truth, Part Three: The Passage"
Script: Robert MoralesThe families of the men unwillingly recruited into Project Super-Soldier are informed their loved ones were killed in an explosion….
At the Project site, white soldiers are incredulous when Reinstein claims that there is no difference between white and Negro blood…. [...]
April 2003"Truth, Part Four: The Cut"
Script: Robert Morales1942: At Army Headquarters in New York, Faith Bradley is demanding the truth about her husband’s death, since the body sent her in a closed coffin was that of a white man. [...]
May 2003"Truth, Part Five: The Math"
Script: Robert Morales [...]
June 2003"Truth, Part Six: The Whitewash"
Script: Robert MoralesFive days ago, Captain America arrived at a federal prison to visit the former Lieutenant Merritt, now serving time for domestic terrorism for his part in a white supremacist agenda and dealing drugs out of his chain of comic shops. Cap then recognizes him as having been in the room when Dr. [...]
July 2003"Truth, Part Seven: The Blackvine"
Script: Robert MoralesCaptain America meets with Colonel Walker Price at his brother’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery. Cap asks him about Isaiah Bradley; Price insists that Bradley died at Schwarzebitte. [...]