Captain America (vol. 1) #131
Title: “Bucky Reborn!”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Nov. 1970
Publisher:
14 characters in this story:
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Redeemers; Secret Defenders... | 5,992 | ||||||||
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[used by MODOK to trick Captain America] | 2 | ||||||||
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[robot duplicate of Baron Strucker] | 5 | ||||||||
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Kid Commandos; Liberty Legion... | 395 | ||||||||
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Blitzkrieg Squad (founder); HYDRA (leader) | 130 | ||||||||
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Axis Mundi; HYDRA... [Captain America's arch-nemy] |
298 | ||||||||
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Lethal Legion; The Frightful Four | 176 | |||||||||
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Exiles (Red Skull allies) | 8 | ||||||||
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Exiles (Red Skull allies) [May have been glimpsed in Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #41.] |
7 | |||||||||
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Asian; Exiles (Red Skull allies) | 10 | |||||||||
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Exiles (Red Skull allies) [May have been glimpsed in Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #41.] |
8 | |||||||||
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Fearsome Four; The Cabal | 1,176 | ||||||||
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A.I.M. (leader) | 199 | ||||||||
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[generic WWII Nazis] | , etc. | 4,222 |
In this issue it is revealed that the mysterious villain known only as "The Hood" is actually none other than the Nazi weapon master Baron Von Strucker. It will later be revealed that this is not the real Baron Strucker, but that it is a robotic duplicate of Baron Strucker, created by the villainous robotics genius Machinesmith.
In this issue, The Hood recruits an acrobatic young man from a gym in San Francisco (a man who looks similar to Bucky) in order to try to trick Captain America into believing that the real Bucky has been found alive.
What "Baron Von Strucker" (The Hood) did not know was that the evil M.O.D.O.K. had actually commissioned a robot copy of Bucky from Doctor Doom, and planted the robot in the gym, and planted the suggestion in Strucker's mind to recruit somebody to play the part of Bucky. So... Captain America was tricked not just by an look-alike playing the role of Bucky. He was tricked by a robot pretending to be the real Bucky pretending to be a look-alike pretending to be the real Bucky. Yes, it seems complicated, but this is what happened, and it is all explained in Captain America #s 131 and 132.
The robot copy of Bucky is featured prominently in this issue. Also, a photo of the actual Bucky is seen in panel 4 on page 2. This photo inspires The Hood (Baron Von Strucker robot) to formulate a plan in which he recruits a Bucky look-alike in order to trick and demoralize Captain America.
This same photo is seen (again being looked at by the Hood) in panel 1 on page 6.