![]() ![]() ![]() They began mental implantation to reprogram his mind and make him loyal to no one but the Soviets. He knew how to fight, and how to speak four languages, but had no clue how he knew all this.įitting him with a cybernetic arm, the Soviets began work on the Winter Soldier Project. ![]() While he had no memory of his previous life, Bucky demonstrated a remarkable ability: reflex memories. After administering electricity, CPR and adrenaline directly into his heart, Bucky was brought back from the dead. Apparently flash-frozen in the waters, the Soviets slowly increased his temperature to thaw out his tissues. Not far from the area, the sub quickly charted the depths and discovered Bucky's tattered body, his left arm completely torn off. ![]() In April 1945, an experimental Soviet spy-submarine helmed by Comrade Karpov was crossing the English Channel when it intercepted a transmission claiming that Captain America and Bucky had been blown up. Major Story Arcs The Winter Soldier Bucky as Winter Soldier This path has since led to Bucky replacing Steve Rogers as Captain America in the Marvel Universe. Modern AgeĮd Brubaker finally brought Bucky back to real life when he restored him in another retcon, this time showing how he had become the Winter Soldier. Instead, Bucky appeared in flashbacks and in tales of his and Cap's World War II history together (for example in The Invaders series). However, despite Captain America returning as a mainstream Marvel hero, Bucky was left apparently permanently dead for many years to the extent that it was assumed he would never be revived (a la Spider-Man's Uncle Ben). When Captain America returned in the pages of the Avengers #4, the first retcon was made to Bucky's history, revealing that he and Captain America met their fatal end at the close of World War II in an airplane explosion, and that subsequent appearances of the two were actually stand-in heroes posing as Cap and Bucky. A brief revival in the early 50's sadly fizzled and the character was left dormant after Captain America #78 in September 1954. Golden Ageīucky was a major feature of the Golden Age of comics as Captain America's sidekick, although the decline in superhero comics in the late 1940's saw him replaced by Betsy Ross (Golden Girl) as Captain America's partner. Character Evolutionīucky has been through some drastic changes in his career. He first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 in March 1941. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Bucky Barnes as a sidekick for Captain America, named after a childhood friend of Joe Simon's. While Captain America's body was frozen in a state of suspended animation for years, Bucky's body was never found. Bucky found himself too close to the explosion which sent him and Captain America falling into the waters below. It was booby trapped and the bomb detonated. In the closing days of World War II, during a mission overseas to take down Baron Heinrich Zemo, Cap and Bucky hopped on a plane carrying a bomb and hoping to disarm it. Bucky also teamed-up with a group of teenage superheroes called the Kid Commandos. During this time he teamed up with other sidekicks to form the Young Allies and later the Liberty Legion to help the Invaders in their fight against the Red Skull. As they were about the same age, Bucky and Toro would become close friends, along with the Human Top and Golden Girl, who dubbed themselves "The Kid Commandos". He soon joined Cap as a member of the Invaders, fighting alongside such other heroes as Namor the Sub-Mariner, Jim Hammond the Human Torch and Thomas Raymond the Toro. The press then came up with a cover story: "Camp kid becomes Cap's sidekick," which made kids all over the country think it could happen to them too. It wasn't long before he was made Captain America's partner, who unlike Cap could get his hands dirty doing the little tricks that Cap wasn't allowed to do because of regular military methods. To his superiors Bucky was the best natural fighter they had ever seen. and another month of special training back in the United States. Because of his skills Bucky was sent to England on his sixteenth birthday, where he went through two months of combat training with the British S.A.S. After losing his father at a young age during World War II, James Buchanan Barnes was adopted as the mascot for Camp Lehigh and nicknamed "Bucky". ![]()
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