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Who was the Red Skull in Captain America’s early comic-book stories?
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Captain America
Chris Evans as the title character in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), directed by Joe Johnston.
In the early comic-book stories of Captain America, the Red Skull was depicted as a seemingly invincible Nazi whose face was literally a crimson skull. He served as the chief villain among a variety of bizarre foes faced by Captain America and his sidekick, Bucky Barnes, during the Golden Age of comics.12