When planted evidence put Nick Fury on the trail of Monroe as the Red Skull's assassin, he sent Carter to investigate, but she was quickly captured by the same guy who soon after set a bomb to blow under Philadelphia.ĭecades ago, his partner had been found in the water missing one arm and most of his memories after the drone plane explosion. A mysterious figure also killed one-time Bucky Barnes fill-in and eventual Nomad Jack Monroe (whose full story is told in CAPTAIN AMERICA #7 by Brubaker and Jean Paul Leon). agents went to save Paris, Union Jack discovered that someone else had already killed all of the Skull's agents in London and made off with the bomb. While Rogers, Sharon Carter, and other S.H.I.E.L.D. However, the Red Skull's agent Crossbones made the call himself to set off the other bombs in Paris and London. Eventually they found out about the plan to blow up the Big Apple and stopped it. came found the Red Skull's body by way of an anonymous tip.

In that same span of time, Lukin revived the man in the tube and sent him to kill the Nazi villain and steal the wildly powerful object!Ĭap got called in when S.H.I.E.L.D. See, he planned to fuel the cobbled-together weapon by harnessing the destructive energy released by bombing Manhattan, London, and Paris. It would take the Skull five years to piece together a Cube. Lukin said he would only trade it for Red's Cosmic Cube neither agreed to those terms. When the Skull saw a man with a robotic arm in suspended animation, he recognized it and wanted to make a purchase. The whole story began five years prior, when the Russian deserter General Aleksander Lukin offered to sell the Red Skull some KGB-developed experimental weaponry from a secret facility.

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