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The Grand Director (William Burnside〔''Captain America'' #602〕), also known as the Captain America of the 1950s, is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. He was created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema in ''Captain America'' #153-156 (September–December, 1972) as having been a specifically different Captain America, the Captain America introduced in 1953 in ''Young Men'' comics. In a later storyline, the character was given a new white costume and the title "The Grand Director" by Buscema and writers Roger McKenzie and Jim Shooter in ''Captain America'' #232 (April, 1979) and altered to be a villain, leader of a group of White Supremacists that included a brainwashed Sharon Carter. The character was killed off at the end of that storyline, and not used again until ''Captain America'' (Vol. 5) #42, returning to being active as the "Captain America of the 1950s" separate from the then-current Captain America, James "Bucky" Barnes. ==Publication history== A character with a complicated history, the Grand Director's origin lies in discrepancies that crept up in the history of Captain America. As a character, Captain America had been continuously published from 1941 until 1949. He was then unsuccessfully revived in 1953 in ''Young Men'' #24–28 (Dec. 1953 – May 1954) by Stan Lee with Mort Lawrence and John Romita, Sr. These stories starred the original Captain America and Bucky in both their civilian and superhero guises and were clearly set in the 1950s, with the character prominently battling communism and a communist Red Skull. The character also made appearances in ''Men's Adventures'' #27-28 (May -July 1954) and ''Captain America Comics'' #76-78 (May - September 1954). However, when Lee revived the Captain America concept a second time in 1964 he chose to ignore his own previous stories (in some interviews Lee claims to have simply forgotten the brief 1950s revival). When the character reappears in ''Avengers'' #4 (March, 1964) Lee reveals that the original Captain America had fallen in to a state of suspended animation after a battle he fought near the end of World War II in 1945. The 1950s stories were thus considered outside of official canon until Englehart's 1972 ''Captain America'' storyline which attempted to resolve the discrepancy by revealing how an unnamed man and his teenaged student had assumed both the public and private identities of the original Captain America and Bucky as part of a government-sponsored program which planned to replace the lost heroes to combat the "red threat" (i.e. communism). However, as Englehart's 1972 story reveals, the treatment, which made no mention of the vital Vita-Ray radiological component, which these individuals underwent to replicate the original Captain America and Bucky's abilities was flawed and as a side-effect they developed psychotic symptoms. As a result of this the government placed them in suspended animation in the mid-1950s only for them to be revived decades later in contemporary times to battle the original Captain America. This complicated origin is the reason that some sources list ''Young Men'' #24 as this character's first appearance, when in fact that and subsequent 1950s-published Captain America stories were clearly created with the intention of depicting the original Captain America. A 1977 story, ''What If'' Vol. 1 #4, (August, 1977), introduces two other, previous Captain Americas (William Naslund, appointed by Truman in 1945 to succeed the original Captain America, and Jeff Mace, who succeeds Naslund as Cap in the spring of 1946 after Naslund is killed in action). These versions of the character were created to resolve the discrepancy created by the Captain America stories which had been published between 1945-1949 in the newer, post-''Avengers'' #4 continuity. Though depicted in an issue of the ''What If? '' series, this story was explicitly noted as taking place as part of the formal canon.〔''Captain America'' Annual #6, ''Captain America'' vol. 1 #285 (Sept. 1983)〕 The 1950s Captain America was known for a time as Captain America IV. In later years, yet earlier "Captain Americas" were introduced, obscuring the numbering of the various Captain Americas, though most of these other later-introduced Captains are not formally part of the recognized linage (such as the Revolutionary War-era ancestor of Steve Rogers). Many recognize this character today with the specific terms "1950s Captain America" or "Captain America of the 1950s" and "Grand Director" to distinguish him from the World War II Steve Rogers. In 2010 the character's birth name ("William Burnside") was revealed in ''Captain America'' #602. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grand Director」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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