During that time, scientists, including members of the CIA and HYDRA, experimented and took his blood, trying to replicate the version of the Super Soldier Serum he had been given. As a result, Bradley was put in prison for thirty years. "For the next thirty years, they experimented on me, trying to figure out why the serum worked." ―Isaiah Bradley to Sam Wilson ĭespite his service to the United States of America in the Korean War, Bradley was punished for disobeying orders and saving his fellow super soldiers. However, the soldiers whom he had saved quickly died, having succumbed to the side effects of the imperfect serum given to them. Wishing to save his friends, Bradley single-handedly infiltrated and liberated the camp, freeing his fellow super soldiers and returning them to their base. Realizing that their unethical experiments on African-American men could come to light, the United States Armed Forces decided to destroy the POW camp with an air strike to eliminate the super soldiers and hide the evidence. No longer able to perform their combat duties adequately, they were quickly captured by enemy forces and placed in a POW camp. So I bust out of the facility one night and I brought them boys back." ―Isaiah Bradley to Sam Wilson īradley's fellow soldiers, who had received the imperfect variants of the Super Soldier Serum, found themselves becoming unstable and dying. I heard the brass talkin' about blowing the POW camp to hell to hide the evidence. "A couple of the boys get captured on a mission. In 2024, when Sam Wilson was named the new Captain America, Bradley's heroics were memorialized at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. In the 1980s, he was freed and was relocated to Baltimore after his death was faked, during which he raised a grandson. When the government feared the ramifications of an African-American super soldier, he spent three decades in prison experimented on by the U.S. A survivor of the trials, he was assigned by the United States military to eliminate the Winter Soldier in South Korea, although he failed. Isaiah Bradley is a Korean War veteran, who was unwillingly subjected to human testings of the Super Soldier Serum in the 1950s. And even if they did, no self-respecting black man would ever wanna be." ―Isaiah Bradley to Sam Wilson
They will never let a black man be Captain America. But they've been doing that for five hundred years. "They were worried my story might get out.