A review by jmanchester0
Truth: Red, White & Black by Robert Morales

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Have you seen the MCU series on Disney+ Falcon and the Winter Soldier? 

 

Well, if you’re interested in more on Isaiah Bradley, the first Captain America, check out Robert Morales’s comic series Truth. 

 

Unfortunately, journalist, magazine editor, and comics writer, Robert Morales died in 2013. But I wanted to share this part of his legacy. 

 

Keeping spoilers to a minimum, yes, of course they tested the Super Soldier Serum on other people before they gave it to Steve Rogers. And being in the mid-20th century, who do you think they would have tested it on? 

 

Truth: Red, White & Black, details how the Army tested the Serum on Black soldiers at the beginning of the Second World War. It’s an understandably dark, but engrossing piece which, of course, explains why we’ve previously never heard of Isaiah Bradley. 

 

And read the extensive research that went into this mini-series with the appendix Morales adds at the back with sources (along side Art Spiegelman’s Maus) on  war, Black history, the Holocaust, and the US Government’s history on secretly experimenting on its citizens. 

 

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