Published from January 2003 to July 2003, the series Truth: Red, White & Black is composed of seven comics: "The Future",[1] "The Basics",[2] "The Passage",[3] "The Cut",[4] "The Math",[5] "The Whitewash"[6] and "The Blackvine".

[12] Axel Alonso was taken by the idea "inherent of politics of wrapping a Black man in red, white, and blue" and "a larger story ... a metaphor of America itself"; he also immediately thought of the Tuskegee Study.

[12] In a meeting involving Joe Quesada,[13] Alonso proceeded to pitch the idea to Robert Morales, who was brought in to write the story and create the supporting cast and the ending.

Set in the Marvel Universe, the series takes the Tuskegee Experiments as inspiration for a tale that re-examines the history of the super-soldier serum that created Captain America.

[13] Beginning in 1942, the series follows a regiment of black soldiers who are forced to act as test subjects in a program attempting to re-create the lost formula earlier used to turn Steve Rogers into Captain America.

"[13] In an interview with Comic Book Resources, he recalled: When we posted our first image of Isaiah Bradley – the silhouette of an African American man in a Captain America costume – the media latched onto it as a story of interest, but a lot of internet folks lined up against it, assuming, for whatever reason, that it would disparage the legacy of Steve Rogers.

One high-profile reviewer even wrote a column admitting he'd unfairly pre-judged the series, that he now saw it was about building bridges between people, not burning them – which I deeply respected.