Captain America #206-213 (1977): 1st Arnim Zola, Doughboy

Kirby introduces Arnim Zola, an evil scientist whose face is in his chest.  Actually, it’s a video screen that shows the face of the person whose mind now occupies that robot body. He was the scientist responsible for the clone of Adolf Hitler, who became Hate Monger.

Now, he’s hot for Captain America’s body.

That yellow blob in the background is Doughboy, Arnim Zola’s creation and henchman.

He’s awesome.

Zola is working with Red Skull to create “genetic art,” which translates as a group of superpowered freaks who do their evil bidding.  One such creation is Nazi X, a bio-engineered drone that houses the brain of Hitler.  Cap and a group of SHIELD agents that includes Sharon fight their way through these issues, gradually learning that Red Skull is behind this and that he and Zola’s plans are to put Hitler’s brain in Cap’s body!  They fail, of course.

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Also, Cap klops people.  And Red Skull offers some philosophy about women:

Falcon is barely in these issues. 

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