Mark Gruenwald reinventing the Red Skull as an affable all-American businessman living the American dream and getting chummy with politicians and industrialists is such a poignant fucking thing you basically could not write it any better with what we know today. It's so damn good.
Red Skull has such a strange history, after his initial return in '65 he spends about 20 years popping in and out behind various anti-Cap conspiracies before sitting out the back half of the '80s and coming back with this new "evil capitalist" facade as his gimmick? also he fought Kingpin naked once