Editing Red Skull (section)

===Silver age===
After an absence for more than a decade, the character of Red Skull returned in new stories starting with ''[[Tales of Suspense]]'' #65 (May 1965) in a Captain America [[World War II]]-period story run.  Marvel resorted to retroactive continuity in recreating the identify of the Red Skull for the Silver age, explaining the real George "John" Maxon was killed and replaced with a lookalike who worked for the real Red Skull.  In traveling to Germany to seek out the real Red Skull, Captain America finally meets Johann Shmidt face to face.

Red Skull was established as a contemporary villain in Tales of Suspense #79 (July 1966), with the explanation that he had been in [[suspended animation]] since World War II.  He would continue to appear in this title after Tales of Suspense was renamed Captain America in 1968 with Marvel establishing the character as the archenemy of Captain America for a new age of readers.