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Captain America (vol. 1) #331 (July 1987):
“Soldier, Soldier”
by Mark Gruenwald, Paul Neary, Vince Colletta

Captain America (vol. 1) #331

Title: “Soldier, Soldier”

Medium: comic

Cover date: July 1987

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Mark Gruenwald
Art by: Paul Neary, Vince Colletta


30 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
She-Thing Ms. Marvel (Sharon Ventura) hero
  Team America; The Fantastic Four...  Marvel 115
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
General Lewis Haywerth General Lewis Haywerth supporting character
  Commission on Superhuman Activities; Control Marvel 27
Orville Sanderson Orville Sanderson supporting character
  Commission on Superhuman Activities Marvel 6
Adrian Sammish Adrian Sammish supporting character
  Commission on Superhuman Activities Marvel 15
Ticktock villain
  Night Shift Marvel 11
G.I. Max (Max) villain
  U.S. Army
[prototype super-soldier]
Marvel 1
Jake Farber Jake Farber supporting character
CBR Scale: A Catholic
Commission on Superhuman Activities; FBI
[feaured in "Blues Brothers" parody story]
Marvel 5
Elwood McNulty Elwood McNulty supporting character
CBR Scale: A Catholic
Commission on Superhuman Activities; FBI
[feaured in "Blues Brothers" parody story]
Marvel 5
Maggie supporting character
  [1st app: Captain America (vol. 1) #267 (Mar. 1982)] Marvel 3
Lt. Michael Lynch villain
  U.S. Army
[involved with Project: Augment; aide to Power Broker]
Marvel 4
Dr. Lund supporting character scientist
  [scientist] Marvel 1
Task Force 17 supporting character group
  [science lab] Marvel 1
The Thing The Thing (Ben Grimm)
(flashback cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  Marvel 5,017
Skein Skein (Sybil Dvorak)
(cameo)
villain clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M Hedonist cult (leader); Gypsy/Roma (raised)
Femizons; Initiative: Women Warriors...  Marvel 35
Nuke Nuke (Frank Simpson)
(cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: S ultra-nationalist
The Thunderbolts; U.S. Army...  Marvel 15
Werewolf By Night Werewolf By Night (Jack Russell)
(cameo)
hero
  Night Shift; The Howling Commandos Marvel 273
Digger Digger (Roderick Krupp)
(cameo)
villain
  Hood's Army; Night Shift Marvel 24
Needle Needle (Josef Saint)
(cameo)
villain
  Hood's Army; Night Shift Marvel 22
Tatterdemalion Tatterdemalion (Arnold Paffenroth)
(cameo)
villain hero
  Hood's Army; Night Shift...  Marvel 33
Brothers Grimm Brothers Grimm (Percy and Barton Grimes)
(cameo)
villain
  Hood's Army; Night Shift
[Powers were briefly amplified by Satannish.]
Marvel 34
Douglas Rockwell Douglas Rockwell
(behind the scenes)
supporting character villain
  Commission on Superhuman Activities (leader)
[agent of Red Skull]
Marvel 13
Misfit Misfit (Mitchell Godey)
(behind the scenes)
villain
  Night Shift Marvel 7
George Mathers George Mathers
(mentioned)
supporting character
  black; Commission on Superhuman Activities Marvel 10

This is the second appearance of "Night Shift," a team of super-villains organized by Shroud to aid in his heroic efforts against the criminal underworld.

Project: Augment appeared first in this issue (and perhaps only in this issue). Project: Augment was a project sponsored by the U.S. military. Its purpose was to use the strength-augmentation technology of the Power Broker to empower United States soldiers. One of their first subjects - G.I. Max - was intended as a replacement for Captain America, but G.I. Max died battling the Captain. This presumably made it evident to the top brass that the results of Power Broker's strength augmentation process could be dangerous and unpredictable, and Project: Augment was presumably abandoned after that.

Key officers involved in heading up Project: Augment were Gen. Haywerth and Lt. Michael Lynch. The project's principle test subject was GI Max.