Interesting Marvel Legends find

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Could it be a variant or simply mis-pack?

Unlikely, as that red skull is from the Face off series. Which is a two pack of characters. Captain Maerica is apparently one of the best Caps made and is therefore ridiculously expensive on secondary market. It's also fairly old as well and made by toy Biz.

How very odd. Curious to see how well it was sealed now

[Briggs23]

The package had been sealed pretty well but had tape holding the top of the blister i know the new ones come with tape on the back this one had that too. If it is a toy biz that makes it even stranger i would think the only thing i could think of is someone took the captain america out of the two pack because he is worth so much then i dono how it ended up in a series around 6 years later packaging.

[reillyd]

Why? That seems to be a whole lot of effort to go to, when the figure was on sale anyway. And risky if you got caught, for very little gain.

[Tallestblue]

That's a disturbing amount of thought put in to trolling a toystore for what,18 bucks?