In 1932, the United States Public Health Service and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention began documenting the long-term effects of untreated syphilis in approximately 600 impoverished African-American men in Macon Country, Alabama. Isaiah’s fictional origin draws heavy influence from the very real “Tuskegee Syphilis Study,” one of the most racist and unethical government operations in American history. Isaiah was among the last test subjects standing, and after barely escaping certain death in Nazi Germany, he was betrayed by his country and sentenced to life in prison, similar to his MCU counterpart’s conviction.
FLACON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER SERIES
The series reveals the US government had secretly experimented on hundreds of Black American soldiers in its attempt to recreate the Super Soldier serum. Isaiah debuted in the 2003 comic miniseries Truth: Red, White & Black, by Robert Morales and Kyle Baker. True to the serum’s potential, Isaiah held his own against HYDRA’s deadliest agent, destroying half of Bucky’s iconic metal arm during the fight.
In an effort to gather intel on the sudden mass reproduction of the Super Soldier serum that transformed Steve Rogers into Captain America, Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes brings Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson to Baltimore, Maryland, where he meets Carl Lumbly’s Isaiah Bradley, “one of the ones feared by HYDRA the most, like Steve.” Old and embittered, Isaiah explains he met Bucky in 1951 in South Korea, during the latter's involuntary tenure as the Winter Soldier and the former's brief stint as a government-appointed Super Soldier. RELATED: The Falcon And The Winter Soldier: This Is The Show’s Best Performance (So Far) Who is Isaiah? And why is his inclusion in the MCU so significant? Though his brief back-and-forth with the title characters appears banal, his existence speaks to the show’s themes and its central character’s journey. The show’s second episode introduces Isaiah Bradley, a retired Black Super Soldier, never before mentioned in the MCU until now.
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