Story #2The Sleeper Shall Awake!
Writer: Stan Lee. Layouts: Jack Kirby. Penciler: George Tuska. Inker: George Tuska. Colorist: ?.
Synopsis
Captain America wraps up the story of
Greymoor Castle which he has been relating to his fellow
Avengers, and explains that he did not get in trouble over his "desertion" because
Army Intelligence knew his secret identity and covered for him. As he readies for bed later that evening,
Steve broods over the loss of his partner
Bucky and recalls his final encounter with the
Red Skull twenty years earlier. Cap was pursuing a fleeing Red Skull who was blown up by his own grenade and managed to tell Cap that his three "
Sleepers" would awaken on
Der Tag—the Day—twenty years hence and revive the
Third Reich. An Allied bombing separated Cap from the Skull and…he is suddenly jarred back to the present by the realization that Der Tag must be coming soon. Steve examines a document he took from the Red Skull that day and finds it to be a list of three German cities and the names of
Nazi agents. Later, in Germany, the first agent leads a group into the hills to open a secret door; out strides the first sleeper: a huge robot, stalking across the land, firing electrical bolts from its claws. Cap parachutes into the area and quickly discovers the Sleeper but finds he is unable to do anything to stop the huge powerful monster. Elsewhere, the second agent prepares to awaken the next Sleeper….