Energizing_Ion

Originally Posted by Exxcaliber

There were several "Buckies" The Cap of the 1950's had a Bucky, later known as nomad.
In the comics the US didn't want the world to know Steve Rogers died and had an immediate replacement, The Spirit of 76, who died on his 1st mission as Cap and the patriot who served in the role until afet the war [1949ish] Both of these men had a Bucky, Fred Davis I think.
So obviously a huge Cap fan, saw both made for TV cap films of the lated 70's early 80's as well as the 1st Cap movie from the 90's, LOVED this movie!
Hit just about every note a cap fan could hope for
The Jim Hammond/orignal torch easter eggg was especially funny given the Mr Evans also played Johnny Storm
And Bucky did die, the term 'bucky dead' was aroundin comics for along time. It was only in the last 4 years or so that he was brought back. so from 44 [or 63 depending on your viewpoint] till 2009 or so is a long time to be dead in the comics world

Originally Posted by Nericus

I'll add this also:

Back in the Captain America Comics of the 40's and 50's from Timely/Atlas (Marvel's previous incarnations as a company), the book always had Steve Rogers as Captain America. Both he and Bucky survived the war and would eventually fight the communists. The original Bucky, James Barnes, was shot and wounded too badly to continue as Bucky as I recall. Fred Davis becomes the next Bucky until he was shot in the leg and had a permenant limp afterwards. Cap's next partner was then a woman, whose character name escapes me.

After Marvel Comics got started, they did a story with Johnny Storm as the Torch that had a foe of his masquerading as Captain America who was exposed as a phony. At the end of the story was a caption box that asked fans if they wanted Captain America back in action. The answer was a resounding: YES. Thus comes Avengers #4, the Submariner at the time was a villain, or at least a bit deranged, and came across some Eskimos worshipping a frozen man. He drives them off and hurls the frozen person into the sea where the ice block drifted to warmer waters and began to thaw and melt. The Avengers are in their submarine searching for Submariner when they see a figure floating in the waters and pull him aboard. Beneath the torn military uniform he wore was the costume and shield of Captain America. He wakes up, a bit confused, has a brief skirmish with the Avengers until he calms down and tells the story of his last mission in the war, which was about an experimental plane being stolen by the enemy and how it was booby trapped and Bucky was killed in the explosion and Cap fell into the icy waters. This story was a major retcon from Cap's history in Captain America Comics, and part of the retcon was that Bucky was killed due to Stan Lee having an "anti sidekick philosophy" at the time.

The retcon is expanded in later years and it's shown that the Spirit of 76 and Fred Davis were asked to take over as Cap and Bucky by the President so that the public and military wouldn't be demoralized by the knowledge that Cap was gone. Spirit of 76 was killed pretty quick and Jeff Mace aka the Patriot becomes the 3rd Captain America with Fred as Bucky. Fred gets wounded and Cap gets a new partner for a time until he retires as Cap. In later years the Patriot would perish from cancer. The Cap of the 1950's, the "Commie smasher" Cap, was a man who idolized Captain America and wanted to be him to the point that he wrote essays on Cap and found an old Nazi storage area that contained a book that had the formula to the super soldier serum in it. He has himself alerted to look and sound like Rogers and the deal was that the govt would deploy him in Korea but that war ended before he was ready. He then becomes a teacher and meets another Cap fan, Jack Monroe. They decide to be the new Cap and Bucky and take the serum and fight the commies. The serum drove them nuts and they were captured and put in suspended animation. Jack eventually gets better and becomes Nomad. The other Cap would be brainwashed into becoming an enemy of Cap and be supposedly killed until he was recently brought back in the comics for a time. Last I heard was that he was killed again but of course there is always a door open for a return.

For years Bucky was on the officially unofficial DO NOT RESURRECT list until Ed Brubaker brought him back as the Winter Soldier. He is eventually rescued from that, takes over as Cap when Steve was "dead", and continued as Cap after Steve returned and was recently killed in the current FEAR ITSELF mega event. He had a hole punched through his chest so I'm not sure how they will undo that to bring him back, but of course this was also done to get Rogers back as Cap for the movie.