Project: Rebirth
Project: Rebirth began as a collaboration between US, British and German
eugenicists led by Dr. "Josef Reinstein" (real name Dr. Wilfred Nagel),
and Dr. Koch. When WW II began, Koch took over the German program and
Josef Reinstein took over the American program. Each was attempting to
re-create the super soldier serum which had previously turned Steve
Rogers into Captain America a year prior to Pearl Harbor. Reinstein's
early attempts to refine the formula were tested on African-Americans.
Three hundred of these soldiers were taken from Camp Cathcart and
subjected to potentially fatal experiments at an undisclosed location in
an attempt to re-create the Super Soldier formula, as seen in Truth:
Red, White & Black. Only five subjects survived the original trials. In
the name of secrecy, US soldiers executed the camp's commander and
hundreds of black soldiers left behind at Camp Cathcart. The government
told the families of the three hundred subjects that their loved ones
had died in battle.
The sole survivor of his test group, Bradley stole a spare costume
intended for Captain America before he engaged in a suicide mission to
destroy the Super-Soldier efforts of the Nazis at the Schwarzebitte
concentration camp. There, he was also able to assassinate Koch. The
mission ended when the Germans captured Bradley. Nazi interest in the
American supersoldier was
high; he was even brought before the
Fuhrer himself. Bradley
was later rescued, only to be court-martialed and imprisoned at Leavenworth around 1943. In
1960, Bradley was pardoned by President Eisenhower
and released.
Considered to be the "Black Captain America", Isaiah Bradley became an
underground legend among much of the African-American community in the
Marvel Universe. A number of the most noted Africans and
African-Americans of the twentieth century's last four decades visited
Bradley as a sign of respect and, in many cases, hero worship. His
visitors have included Malcolm X, Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, Angela Davis, Alex Haley, Nelson Mandela, and Colin Powell. Outside
the Black community, however, he remains largely unknown. When he
arrived as a special guest to the wedding of Storm and the Black Panther,
several African-American heroes were awestruck, including Luke Cage, Giant-Man (Bill
Foster), Monica Rambeau, Triathlon, and the Falcon. However, the
Canadian-born (and white) Wolverine was totally unaware of the man's identity or importance.
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