Given that the original costume for Demolition-Man blatantly aped Wolverine's cowl and Daredevil's tunic, it's not surprising that D-Man's design for the Captain felt so fitting for U.S. I owe you one, pal," to which John reacted by thinking, "Him - calling me 'pal'?!?" Steve was so happy to see D-Man again that he shook John's hand and said, "Thanks. That was in "Captain America" #349 it wasn't until "Captain America" #401 that John and future Captain America Sam Wilson, then still the Falcon, arrived at the Avengers' mansion with D-Man in tow, alive and well after being frozen in the ocean. Agent.ĭ-Man joined Steve and Battlestar on a mission to rescue John from the Flag-Smasher - in the comics, that's Karl (not Karli) Morgenthau - but D-Man appeared to die when he deliberately crashed his plane into Morgenthau's Arctic base, destroying the doomsday device within.
When Steve became the Captain, D-Man fashioned his red-and-black costume, which John adopted as U.S. When Steve was Captain America, D-Man ran his hotline. "Captain America" #340 printed a letter from LaMont Ridgell, who also took Marvel to task for naming Lemar "Bucky." In the very next issue, Lemar adopted his new alias, "Battlestar," after an older man pointed out to Lemar how inappropriate a name "Bucky" was for a Black man who was the same age and size as the current Captain America.ĭunphy purchased super-strength from the same Power Broker who supplied it to John Walker, and later debuted his superhero identity as Demolition-Man in "Captain America" #328, which also saw him help Steve Rogers capture Karl Malus. Instead, Gruenwald was horrified over his own unintended transgression, and worked with McDuffie to correct the error.
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Before he went on to co-found Milestone Media and produce and write the animated series "Static Shock," "Justice League Unlimited," and "Ben 10," Dwayne McDuffie wrote for Marvel Comics, and he pointed out to Gruenwald that "buck" was a slur against Black people.īecause Gruenwald was also the executive editor of Marvel Comics, McDuffie was worried that he might be fired. Agent" miniseries.Īs Brian Cronin reported in his Comic Book Legends Revealed column for Comic Book Resources, Lemar changed his codename to Battlestar after one of Gruenwald's Black coworkers called him out for his ignorance. To protect John's remaining family, the government faked his assassination at another press conference (those never seem to go well for him) and gave him the cover identity of "Jack Daniels," as well as speech and behavioral therapy to erase the mannerisms of the man whom the public had seen "killed." John ultimately reclaimed his original name, but he couldn't save his sister Kate from becoming a supervillain - she adopted his old Super-Patriot alias in the five-part "American Zealot" story arc of 2021's "U.S. John's psychosis over this loss was so strong that, after Steve reclaimed the Captain America mantle, John had to be hypnotized into believing his parents were still alive. In the ensuing fight, they killed John's parents, which caused John to snap and kill all the Watchdogs. When he did, the Watchdogs tried to kill him.
The Watchdogs, an extreme right-wing terrorist group, used this information to take John's parents hostage until he surrendered himself to them.
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