Writer Ed Brubaker pushes the Captain America mythos headlong into the future with high adventure and full-throttle action. For more than fifty years, the Soviets employed an undercover agent -- an unstoppable, untraceable killer known as the Winter Soldier -- to assassinate key political figures in the West. His suspected identity? Bucky Barnes, Captain America's one-time partner, thought to have been murdered in the closing days of World War II. Now the Winter Soldier is back, working under the command of the ruthless General Lukin -- who has obtained a functional Cosmic Cube, a weapon of limitless power that can bend reality itself. Vowing to end Lukin's reign of terror and destruction, Captain America relentlessly tracks the Cube -- only to find himself face-to-face with the Winter Soldier. Will Cap be forced to battle his resurrected partner so soon after finally learning the astonishing truth?

COLLECTING: Captain America (2004) 1-9, 11-14