The Grand Director (William Burnside), 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.
After the above 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.
The character has refuted his tenure as the Grand Director, since he was under mind control at the time, and returned to being active as the "Captain America of the 1950s" separate from the current Captain America, James "Bucky" Barnes, but disappeared again at the end of the same storyline.
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