Story #2If Bucky Lives..!
Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Gil Kane. Inker: Gil Kane. Colorist: ?.
Synopsis
One day at
Avengers Mansion,
Captain America receives a message over the monitor: his late partner
Bucky, claiming to have been held prisoner for years and pleading with Cap to come to
Sea Gull Island near
Nova Scotia and rescue him. Confused by Bucky’s maintained youth, Cap takes
Tony’s Stark’s supersonic cruiser and heads for the island. Before Cap can arrive at his destination, a
huge plastic bubble containing the villains
Power Man and the
Swordsman descends to the island and enters a secret high-tech base underground. They are contacted by their mysterious employer who explains that their mission is to destroy Captain America. A
giant ray gun creates another bubble around Cap’s jet, bringing him to the island base as a prisoner. The two villains attack the
Avenger but he is able to defeat them easily. Their mystery leader speaks to Cap explaining his plan for world domination using the plastic bubbles to threaten any city on Earth. By way of demonstration, he traps Captain America in one such bubble and, to explain the secret of Bucky, he steps forward revealing himself as….