Prime / Captain America #1 (Mar. 1996):
“Accept No Substitutes”
by Gerard Jones, Len Strazewski, Norm Breyfogle

Prime / Captain America #1

Title: “Accept No Substitutes”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Mar. 1996

Publisher:
Written by: Gerard Jones, Len Strazewski
Art by: Norm Breyfogle

Number of Pages: 40

9 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (lead character)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
Prime (Kevin Green) (lead character)  Story features regular Malibu Universe Prime, as well as "Evil Prime," from an alternative dimension, an evil duplicate of Prime Shoat wants to use to replace Prime.	Jewish	Gross Babies; UltraForce		116
Bill Clinton (details)  Story features both "regular" Bill Clinton (of the Malibu Universe), and "Evil Bill Clinton," from an alternative Earth, who Shoat wants to use to replace his Earth's Clinton.	Baptist	[U.S. President]		646
Chelsea Clinton	Methodist	[U.S. President's daughter]		35
Mr. Shoat		[Used Phade as a pawn]		7
Liberty		[soldier under Col. Samuels; later gained ultra powers]		1
Dr. Finkle		[1st appeared and died in same issue]		1
Secret Service		[defends U.S. President, among other duties]	, etc.	42
The Hulk (Bruce Banner) (mentioned)  At one point, Captain America wakens in Prime's arms. Seeing somebody green and muscular, he mistakenly thinks he is held captive by the Hulk.	Catholic (lapsed)	Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order; The Ultimates; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Saviours		4,551

This issue is divided into two chapters:
- Chapter One: Accept No Substitutes
- Chapter Two: Real is as Real Does

These could be listed as separate stories, but because they were created by the same creative team and they constitute a single narrative, we have listed them here as a single story.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. An alternative form of this story's title is: “Accept No Substitutes / Real is as Real Does”. Webpage for Prime / Captain America #1 (Mar. 1996) created 10 September 2012. Last modified 24 April 2014.

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