The Watcher presents a world in which
Captain America—Steve Rogers—was eventually elected President of
a fascist United States: this world diverged from our own when
Rogers, turned into a super-soldier by Dr. Erskine's formula, saved
Erskine from the Nazi assassin sent to kill him. As a result the
formula is available for creating more Super-Soldiers. Steve is
trained and sent out as the hero Captain America but one day he gets
the order to abandon his sidekick Bucky (who now goes on to survive
the war) and report to a base in New Mexico. There he learns that he
is to command a team of 500 Super-Soldiers, including Nick Fury, Dum
Dum Dugan, and Gabe Jones. They are dispatched on Operation: Invaders
where they will be parachuted into Berlin to stop the Nazi aggression
at its source. It takes only a few hours to overthrow the regime with
the Red Skull gunned down and Cap stopping Fury from killing Hitler
so he can stand trial for his crimes....
The news spread all over the world with
Human Torch and Toro realizing that they missed out on the action by
waiting too long and Japan surrendering so they don';t have to face
the Super-Soldiers, as Sub-Mariner tells Betty Dean.
The Super-Soldiers liberate the
concentration camps and are shocked by what they see. Cap pauses to
talk to a little boy named Magnus and fills him with hope for the
future so that he does not grow up to become Magneto. On their way
home, the Queen Mary is torpedoed by a renegade Nazi sub and
Cap is the only survivor. He is given a hero's welcome in America and
named head of the newly-created SHIELD by President Rossevelt; the
new agency is staffed with Super-Soldiers personally selected by
Steve Rogers. Rogers announces to the nation that because of the need
of a booster shot, the super-soldier serum cannot be manufactured for
the use of the general population. After this, the Super-Soldiers
invade Russia and overthrow Stalin, leaving the USA as the only
superpower. Rogers is then elected President in 1956 and again
promises the Serum will be distributed to all citizens. He explains
on TV that the Serum will not work on African-Americans, which is a
lie just like the lie about the booster shot; President Rogers
personally shoots an aide who worries about consequences. African
Americans peacefully protest the serum segregation and are brutally
quashed, the state-run media painting their protests as a riot;
Rogers uses this as the pretext for shutting up the “colored
people” in relocation camps....
America becomes a paradise for the
privileged few. After this, a group of four try to sneak into a
spaceport and hijack a rocket; they are killed by super-soldier
guards so there is no Fantastic Four. Dr Bruce Banner is found to be
conducting illegal experiments with Gamma radiation and is killed. TV
star Spider-Man is likewise executed as a freak, along with his
family. The government hit squad is headed up by Captain Frank Castle
who has trouble with one of his men who enjoys the killing too much,
Clint Barton....
Decades pass: the sixties, the
seventies, the eighties as Steve Rogers keeps being reelected
President. Then the derelict and Amnesiac Namor is discovered in the
Bowery and the hit team pursues him; a leap into the river restores
his memories and he returns to Atlantis to find it destroyed by
American bombs. He vows revenge on the human race and takes on the
hit squad in the Arctic and defeats them...then Namor discovers Inuit
people worshiping a man frozen in ice...Captain America....