Captain America (vol. 1) #122 (Feb. 1970):
“The Sting of the Scorpion!”
by Stan Lee, Gene Colan, Joe Sinnott

Captain America (vol. 1) #122

Title: “The Sting of the Scorpion!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Feb. 1970

Publisher:
Written by: Stan Lee
Art by: Gene Colan, Joe Sinnott

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 (Steve Rogers) (lead character)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
Scorpion (Mac Gargan)	manifestly non-religious	Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Sinister Twelve; Spider-Man Revenge League; The Masters of Evil; The Thunderbolts		315
S.H.I.E.L.D.		[government agency; intelligence agency...]		1,188
Agent 13 (Sharon Carter)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D.		262
Specs		[leader of a gang of spies]		1
Smiler		[spy]		1
A.I.M. (dream, pg. 6, panel 2)	Scientism	[terrorist]		390
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (dream, pg. 6, panel 1)  Captain America's flashback dream features a villain holding Sharon Carter in his hand. It looks like Red Skull to me, but at least one archivist thought this was Baron Strucker.	Nazi	Axis Mundi; HYDRA...  The People's Militia; THEM [Captain America's arch-nemy]		298
M.O.D.O.K. (George Tarleton) (dream, pg. 6, panel 1)  Quote: "Captain America's nightmarish flashback dream about villains who have threatened Sharon Carter."	Scientism	A.I.M. (leader)		199
Baron Strucker (Wolfgang von Strucker) (dream, pg. 6, panel 1)  I think this image is the Red Skull, but at least one archiver thought this was Baron Strucker. Captain America's flashback dream is somewhat nebulous.	Nazi; HYDRA (founder)	Blitzkrieg Squad (founder); HYDRA (leader)		130
John F. Kennedy (mentioned, pg. 5, panel 3)  Captain America: "So I BELONG to the establishment! I'm not gonna knock it! It was that SAME establishment that gave them a Martin Luther King -- a Tolkien -- a McLuhan -- and a couple of brothers -- named Kennedy!"	Catholic	[U.S. President]		521
Martin Luther King, Jr. (mentioned, pg. 5, panel 3)  Captain America: "So I BELONG to the establishment! I'm not gonna knock it! It was that SAME establishment that gave them a Martin Luther King -- a Tolkien -- a McLuhan -- and a couple of brothers -- named Kennedy!"	Baptist preacher	black		252
Robert Kennedy (mentioned, pg. 5, panel 3)  Captain America: "So I BELONG to the establishment! I'm not gonna knock it! It was that SAME establishment that gave them a Martin Luther King -- a Tolkien -- a McLuhan -- and a couple of brothers -- named Kennedy!"	Catholic	[politician; activist...]		253
J. R. R. Tolkien (mentioned, pg. 5, panel 3)  Captain America: "So I BELONG to the establishment! I'm not gonna knock it! It was that SAME establishment that gave them a Martin Luther King -- a Tolkien -- a McLuhan -- and a couple of brothers -- named Kennedy!"	Catholic	[wrote "Lord of the Rings"]	Sirena Film; PBS	15
Marshall McLuhan (mentioned, pg. 5, panel 3)  Captain America: "So I BELONG to the establishment! I'm not gonna knock it! It was that SAME establishment that gave them a Martin Luther King -- a Tolkien -- a McLuhan -- and a couple of brothers -- named Kennedy!"	Baptist/Methodist (raised); agnostic (temporary); Catholic (convert)	[coined terms "medium is the message", "global village"]		10
Matthew (mentioned, pg. 4, panel 4)  Captain America: "I think it was Matthew who said -- "What is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" When am I to find -- the soul of Steve Rogers?"	Jewish; Christian apostle	[tax collector]		50

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