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COMIC URBAN LEGEND: Robert Morales was going to bring Bucky back less than a year before Ed Brubaker ultimately brought Bucky back.

STATUS: True.

Robert Morales’ run on Captain America was troubled nearly from the start.

Morales was given the ongoing Captain America title on the strength of his Truth: Red, White and Black mini-series that he had written, depicting the story of an African-American precursor to Steve Rogers named Isiah Bradley.

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Morales’ first issue on Captain America was 2004’s Captain America #21.

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Morales’ story were quite political in nature, including Captain America visiting Guantanamo Bay.

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Ultimately, Morales’ plan was to revisit an idea that was brought up in the aforementioned Byrne and Stern run (although, do note that the idea came courtesy of Roger McKenzie and Don Perlin, who considered doing it during their earlier run on Captain America).

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He was going to have Captain America run for, and actually be ELECTED, President, with the plan that he would be president for four years (perhaps four years real time).

Well, the problem was - while this was approved and Morales was already well on his way towards this story - it quickly hit a snag when the rest of Marvel editorial found out about it.

Ultimately, it was determined that no, Captain America would NOT be elected president.

Now, though, Morales needed a new storyline for his book, so it was determined that he would bring Bucky back!

Again, Marvel editorial argued over this turn of events as well, and I knows Tom Brevoort specifically was against the idea, so once again, Morales’ story was changed (this time, though, I do not believe Morales had taken any steps towards actually writing this story - please someone correct me if I am mistaken).

Morales’ run on the title ended with issue #28.

Soon afterwards, Tom Brevoort took over editing Captain America himself, and new writer Ed Brubaker told him his idea - he wanted to bring back Bucky. Again, Brevoort protested, but this time, his laundry list of concerns were addressed by Brubake to Brevoort’s satisfaction, so Brevoort was willing to go along with Brubaker’s idea.

And, ultimately, the return of Bucky has been a good storyline for Marvel.

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