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Captain America (vol. 1) #330 (June 1987):
“Night Shift”
by Mark Gruenwald, Tom Morgan, Sam DeLaRosa

Captain America (vol. 1) #330

Title: “Night Shift”

Medium: comic

Cover date: June 1987

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Mark Gruenwald
Art by: Tom Morgan, Sam DeLaRosa


16 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 Captain America (Steve Rogers)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  Marvel Timely 5,992
D-Man D-Man (Dennis Dunphy) hero
CBR Scale: A Salvation Army
Night People; The Avengers...  Marvel 60
Skein Gypsy Moth (Sybil Dvorak) villain clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M Hedonist cult (leader); Gypsy/Roma (raised)
Femizons; Initiative: Women Warriors...  Marvel 35
Werewolf By Night Werewolf By Night (Jack Russell) hero
  Night Shift; The Howling Commandos Marvel 273
Shroud Shroud (Maxillian Quincy Coleridge) hero
CBR Scale: M Hindu (Cult of Kali)
Night Shift Marvel 70
Dansen Macabre Dansen Macabre villain clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M Hindu (priestess of Shiva);
formerly in Cult of Kali
Femizons; Hood's Army... 
[powers briefly amplified by Satannish]
Marvel 22
Commission on Superhuman Activities Commission on Superhuman Activities supporting character group
  [U.S. govt. agency for regulating superhuman activities] Marvel 24
Karl Malus Karl Malus villain scientist
  [scientist; surgeon] Marvel 7
Power Broker Power Broker (Curtiss Jackson) villain
  The Corporation
[one of Red Skull's division chiefs]
Marvel 12
Digger Digger (Roderick Krupp) villain
  Hood's Army; Night Shift Marvel 24
Needle Needle (Josef Saint) villain
  Hood's Army; Night Shift Marvel 22
Tatterdemalion Tatterdemalion (Arnold Paffenroth) villain hero
  Hood's Army; Night Shift...  Marvel 33
Ticktock villain
  Night Shift Marvel 11
Brothers Grimm Brothers Grimm (Percy and Barton Grimes) villain
  Hood's Army; Night Shift
[Powers were briefly amplified by Satannish.]
Marvel 34
Maggie supporting character
  [1st app: Captain America (vol. 1) #267 (Mar. 1982)] Marvel 3
Misfit Misfit (Mitchell Godey)
(behind the scenes)
villain
  Night Shift Marvel 7

This is the first appearance of the super-team known as "Night Shift," organized by the hero Shroud from a group of Los Angeles-area super-villains. Shroud was a hero, but made people believe he was a villain so that he could better infiltrate and work against the criminal underworld. Shroud organized "Night Shift" to use the group to do good, but they were unaware of his true motives.