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At the end of Truth: Red, White, and Black, Robert Morales and Kyle Baker's 2004 re-imagination of the Captain America mythos as a story of cross-cultural negotiation, readers learn that the events of this graphic novel have been narrated by Faith Bradley, wife of the first governmentally created Cap - an African American man named Isaiah Bradley. Faith tells the story to Steve Rogers, the white Captain America who has worn the superhero's public face since the 1940s, after his search for the true results of the wartime "super-soldier" experiments leads him to the Bradleys' Bronx apartment. To illustrate her points about the misrepresentation of cultural history and identity, Faith introduces Rogers to her husband, a genially smiling man who cannot speak since he suffered brain damage in a military prison. Isaiah poses for a photograph with his superheroic double; the two Captains' clothing underscores the contrast between their respective experiences and public images. Steve Rogers wears the full Captain America costume, complete with a blue mask that covers his face except for his mouth and nose, while Isaiah Bradley wears khaki pants and a blue t-shirt, the ragged upper half of his costume draped across his chest. He smiles broadly, his left hand clenched into a fist that recalls 1960s Black Power salutes; his right arm is slung across Rogers's shoulders, while the latter smiles from behind his mask, his clenched right fist mirroring Bradley's. (Figure 1) Although the white Cap's features are concealed by his costume, he embodies a government-sanctioned notion of heroism, his legitimate ownership of the red, white, and blue uniform accentuated by the visibly white skin of his nose and mouth. Bradley, on the other hand, stands nearly half a head taller than his companion and possesses obviously larger physical features, which are emphasized by the dark skin of his hands, arms, neck, and face. This distinctive racial trait severs his costume's connotations from their official origins, suggesting that his blackness both exceeds the boundaries that attempt to contain it and undermines the ideological basis of American patriotism. While Steve Rogers personifies familiar notions of the twentieth-century American superhero, Isaiah Bradley exists as the frame's visual center through the very unfamiliarity of his physical signifiers within conventional narratives of superheroics....