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    • The Red Skull is the alias of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by France Herron, Jack Kirby, and Joe Simon, the character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), in which his secret identity is revealed to be George Maxon. It would later be retroactively established that Maxon was mer… See more

    Publication history

    The original Red Skull was introduced in Timely Comics' Captain America Comics #1 (cover-dated March 1941) which was … See more

    Fictional character biography

    Johann Shmidt was a Nazi general officer and confidant of Adolf Hitler. He has been closely affiliated with HYDRA and is an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and the interests of the United States and the free world in … See more

    PublisherMarvel Comics
    First appearanceCaptain America Comics #1 (March 1941)
    Alter egoJohann Shmidt · George Maxon · Albert Malik · Sinthea Shmidt
    Powers and abilities

    Although he has no superhuman abilities, the Red Skull possesses a high intellect and inventive genius and is a highly gifted subversive strategist and political operative. At one point, the Red Skull's mind inhabited a body clon… See more

    Reception

    • In 2006, Wizard ranked the Red Skull 21st in their "Top 100 Greatest Villains Ever" list.
    • In 2013, Complex ranked the Red Skull 16th in their "25 Greatest Comic Book Villains of All Time" list. … See more

    Other versions

    An alternate universe variant of the Red Skull and his successor Ben Beckley / Skull from Earth-9997 appear in Earth X.
    The Green Skull, a fusion of the Red Skull and DC Comics character Lex Luthor, appears in … See more

    In other media

    • The Johann Schmidt incarnation of the Red Skull appears in the "Captain America" segment of The Marvel Super Heroes, voiced by Paul Kligman.
    • The Johann Schmidt incarnation of the Red Skull appears in … See more

    External links

    Red Skull (disambiguation) at Marvel.com
    Red Skull (Johann Shmidt) at Marvel.com
    Red Skull (Albert Malik) at Marvel.com
    Red Skull II at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe… See more

     
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  1. Originally it was just a mask worn by Johann Schmidt, a lowly bellhop working at a German hotel that Hitler decided to turn into the ultimate soldier after a chance encounter. He was personally trained by Hitler and given his hideous red, noseless skull mask to instill fear into the hearts of the Allied forces.
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    He was born as Johann Schmidt in a small German village, probably sometime in the 1910s. The Skull's mother Martha died giving birth to him, causing his drunken lout of a father to try and drown him, saying that the infant had murdered his wife.
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    Johann Shmidt, the Red Skull, was the son of a coarse, drunken German villager named Hermann Shmidt and his reportedly saintly, long-suffering wife Martha, who for years endured abuse and beatings from her husband. Martha died …

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    Sep 27, 2016 · The Supervillain: Johann Schmidt AKA The Red Skull. The Red Skull isn’t just any Marvel supervillain. If there’s a Marvel Supervillain Mount Rushmore, Red Skull is on it. He has been a major figure in comics since his …

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