Captain Americas life

Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student growing up during the Great Depression. His
alcoholic father died when Steve was a child, and his mother passed away from pneumonia after
he graduated high school. In early 1940, appalled at Nazi Germanys horrific atrocities, Steve
attempted to enlist in the army. Failing to pass physical requirements, he was invited to volunteer
for Operation: Rebirth, a project intended to enhance US soldiers to the height of physical
perfection via the inventions and discoveries of Professor Abraham Erskine. Rogers eagerly
accepted and became the first test subject. After injections and ingestion of the "Super Soldier
Serum," Rogers was exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activated and stabilized the
chemicals in his system. The process successfully altered his physiology from its frail state to the
maximum of human efficiency, including greatly enhanced musculature and reflexes. Soon after,
Professor Erskine was assassinated by a Nazi operative, leaving Steve the sole beneficiary of
Erskines genius. Renamed Project: Rebirth, variations of the Super-Soldier serum were
subsequently tested, under inhuman conditions, on African-American soldiers. The most
successful of these was Isaiah Bradley, and Project: Rebirths resources were eventually
absorbed into a multinational superhuman research project dubbed Weapon Plus.
Rogers was assigned to serve as an who served both as a counter-intelligence agent and a
symbolic US hero to counter Nazi Germany's propaganda successes head by the Red Skull
(Johann Shmidt). Wearing a costume based on his own design modeled after the American flag,
Steve was given a triangular bulletproof shield, a personal sidearm and the codename Captain
America, the Sentinel of Liberty. He was also provided a cover identity as a clumsy infantry
private at Camp Lehigh in Virginia. His first opponents included the Red Skull himself and Nazi
attempts to duplicate Erskines serum with their own super soldiers. During a mission to the
African nation of Wakanda, Cap befriended the nations ruler TChaka and obtained a sample
of the rare metal Vibranium. Subsequent experiments with this metal produced a uniquely
indestructible Vibranium-steel alloy disc, which proved impossible to duplicate. The disc was
given to Cap as his new shield.
Barely out of his teens himself, Rogers made friends with the armys camp mascot, teenager
James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes. Barnes accidentally learned of Rogers' dual identity and

offered to keep the secret if he could become Captain America's sidekick. Rogers agreed, and
trained Barnes. Throughout 1941, Cap and Bucky shared many adventures stateside and
throughout the world. When the US entered World War II, Cap and Bucky teamed with the
android Human Torch, his mutant sidekick Toro, and Namor the ocean-dwelling Sub-Mariner as
the Allied force the Invaders.
In the closing days of World War II in early 1945, Cap broke through Nazi troops for his final
wartime confrontation with the Red Skull, who was seemingly slain by bombing debris (but
lived on in suspended animation). Days later, Cap and Bucky arrived in England too late to
prevent brilliant Nazi scientist Baron Zemo from obtaining and launching an experimental drone
plane armed explosive device on it. Rogers and Barnes reached the plane, but when Bucky tried
to defuse the bomb, it exploded in mid-air. Rogers was hurled into the freezing waters of the
North Atlantic. The US government presumed both were dead. However, Bucky was secretly
retrieved by Soviet operatives, while Cap was recovered by Nazi agent Lyle Dekker, who hoped
to exchange bodies with him. Cap escaped Dekkers base by air, but was shot down and fell back
into the ocean. Due to the Super-Soldier serum Captain America survived, entering a state of
suspended animation and eventually freezing in solid ice.

Personal Life
With his memories restored, Cap has an opportunity to run for president, but ultimately declined.
He grew closer to fellow senior Avengers Iron Man and Thor when he learned their secret
identities while they were all briefly imprisoned by the villainous Molecule Man. Meanwhile, In
his private life, after the pain of losing Sharon had finally faded, Cap established a romance with
new neighbor Bernadette Bernie Rosenthal. Cap faced a new Baron Zemo (Helmut, now
hideously scarred after his earlier defeat), whose machinations led to Bernie discovering her
boyfriends secret identity. While failing to stop Iron Mans descent into alcoholism, Cap had a
better influence on Jack Monroe, formerly the 1950s Bucky, who found new purpose as Caps
sidekick wearing a version of Caps old Nomad costume. Upon returning from a bleak dystopian
future world, recruited by the cyborg soldier Deathlok, to defeat the dictator Hellinger, Cap faced
a brighter tomorrow as Bernie proposed marriage to him.

While Cap led a reorganization of the Avengers, he became romantically involved with exSerpent Society member Diamondback (Rachel Leighton), although their relationship was
strained by her continued loyalties to some of her former criminal cohorts.
Hostilities flared between the interstellar Kree and Shiar Empires, and their conflict destabilized
Earths sun. Cap led the Avengers in protecting Earths interests and following a series of space
adventures that set them against both the Shiar Imperial Guard and the Kree Starforce, the
Avengers learned all parties had been manipulated by the Krees Supreme Intelligence in an
effort to advance the Kree races evolution via the near-annihilation of the Kree empire. After
allegedly 98% of the Kree Empires population were killed, Iron Man and other Avengers
attempted to kill the Supreme Intelligence despite the protests of Cap, who felt the Earth team
had no right to execute an extraterrestrial ruler; although the Intelligence secretly survived, Cap
was disturbed by his teammates willingness to kill and he took another leave of absence from
the team just as D-Man turned up alive.
Back on Earth, Caps adventures continued as he was turned into a werewolf for a time, and was
attacked by an evil doppelganger version of himself, a harbinger of the cosmic Infinity War
waged against Earths superhumans by the tyrannical Magus, an aspect of the artificially
constructed man, Adam Warlock.

Back in Time
While the world believed Captain America had been killed, the shot fired by Sharon actually
flung him out of sync with time, causing him to relive moments from his past. While Cap was
believed dead, Bucky assumed the guise of Captain America. The Red Skull finally engineered
his master plan to bring Cap back to the present, but with his mind controlling Caps body;
however, Rogers defeated the Red Skull within his mind and drove him from his body. Finding
Bucky had adjusted to his new role, Rogers encouraged him to continue as Captain America,
though Rogers briefly resumed his role as Cap to lead the Avengers against Norman Osborn, the
insane arch-criminal given charge of his own Avengers and the Initiative, the USAs
superhuman task force, after playing on public perception of himself. During Osborns siege
against the Asgardians, Caps forces publicly defeated him and exposed him as a dangerous
madman. Rogers accepted the presidents offer to replace Osborn as the new executive in charge
of Americas super-heroes.