Kyle Baker's cover for TRUTH #1, due soon from Marvel
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Super-Soldiers of Fortune

We all know the tale in the darkest days of the 20th century, America was preparing for war. Choosing a young man to undergo an experimental augmentation procedure, the government engineered a "super solider" for the purpose of creating a new kind of superhero a patriotic icon who would rally the nation and lead us to victory against the Axis forces. The name of that hero would be Captain America, and the young man they chose... was black.

Bet you don't remember that last part, do you? That's because it's taken 60 years to reveal THE TRUTH, but now Marvel has recruited a team to take on that daring mission to uncover the story behind the first man to take the super-soldier serum... and it wasn't Steve Rogers! In this new six-part miniseries, we meet the African-American test subjects who were used by the military in the early stages of the super-soldier project. Cast aside by their own country during a time of intense racial segregation, their role in the saga of Captain America can now be told, thanks to the efforts of writer and VIBE editor Bob Morales, and artist Kyle Baker.