publication date: September 1984

pencil: Paul Neary

story: Jean Marc DeMatteis

inks: Roy Richardson

colors: Robert Sharen

Captain America relives the last fight alongside Bucky, during World War II, but this time it is Zemo’s mind to control the hallucination.
Cap and Bucky end up tied up on the rocket plane that killed Bucky, only Cap's will changes events and they both end up falling overboard, alive.
Zemo was defeated, but now Cap must face the Red Skull.

publication date: October 1984

pencil: Paul Neary

story: Jean Marc DeMatteis

inks: Roy Richardson

colors: Robert Sharen

In the villa of the Red Skull, he and Cap have a long conversation, in which the Nazi recounts his origins.
Son of Herman and Martha Schmidt, two farmers, man remembers everything from conception.
His mother died in childbirth, his father committed suicide a few years later, Johann ends up in an orphanage.
Teenager escapes and grows up on the street, often ending up in a cell.
He fell in love with a young Jewish woman, Esther, whom he attempted to possess by force. Rejected her he killed her with a shovel.
When the Nazis came to power, he became Hitler's waiter.
Hitler casually chooses him to become a worthy representative of the Aryan race.
At the end of the training he provided him with the Red Skull mask.
After his return and yet another defeat against Cap, he meets a young woman equal to his mother, whom he got pregnant to have a worthy heir.
Unfortunately the woman disappointed him, giving birth to a girl.
Despite the contempt, he decided to keep the child and train her, making her Mother Superior.

publication date: July 1985

pencil: John Buscema & Tom Palmer

story: Roger Stern

colors: Christie Scheele

The Avengers are joined by Ka-Zar and Shanna, a few months pregnant, to defeat Terminus.
In space, meanwhile, Captain Marvel meets the mercenary leader, Nebula, a kree bent on conquering the Skrull empire.
Terminus is shot down, discovering that it is just a giant robot piloted by a small and deformed alien, who is left to die in the snow.