Editing Red Skull (section)

===Bronze age===
During Jack Kirby's return to Marvel in 1976, the Red Skull would again appear in a run of Captain America during which Kirby both wrote and penciled stories of the characters he helped create.  During this run, it is notable Red Skull was the only villain Kirby brought back, having distanced these new Captain America stories from the rest of the Marvel Universe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twomorrows.com/kirby/articles/2970s.html/|title=You Can't Go Home Again Kirby's 1970s return to the "Snake Pit" of Marvel Comics|website=[[TwoMorrows.com]]|last=Gartland|first=Mike|date=2003|access-date= August 24, 2023}}</ref>  During this period, the Red Skull would also be used as an antagonist in the ''[[Invaders (comics)|Invaders]]'' comic book series which focused on period stories from the forties.

For decades, the character's true face was hidden, but in ''[[Captain America (comic book)|Captain America]]'' #297 (September 1984) the Red Skull unmasks in front of Captain America and his face, albeit extremely aged, is fully revealed. In the next issue, the Red Skull retells his story with his face fully visible in his various ages.  The Red Skull seemingly dies in issue #300 (December 1984) after a battle with Captain America and would disappear for five years. When the character is revealed to be alive in issue #350 (February 1989), in a story called "Resurrection", by [[Mark Gruenwald]], the face of Johann Shmidt's original body is hidden again, but the Red Skull's face is fully visible, albeit in his cloned copy of Captain America's body.

The character's origin was more fully illustrated in the miniseries ''Red Skull: Incarnate'', with Shmidt's face fully visible again.