Captain America (vol. 1) #369 (Apr. 1990):
“The Skeleton Crew”
by Mark Gruenwald, Ron Lim, Danny Bulanadi

Captain America (vol. 1) #369

Title: “The Skeleton Crew”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 1990

Publisher:
Written by: Mark Gruenwald
Art by: Ron Lim, Danny Bulanadi

14 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
Diamondback (Rachel Leighton)		BAD Girls, Inc.; Femizons...  Initiative: Women Warriors; Initiative; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Serpent Society		173
The Black Queen (Selene)	Greco-Roman classical religion (nominal); Cult of Fire (high priestess); sorceress	Externals; The Inner Circle...  The Upstarts		67
Michael O'Brien		Guardsmen; Project: Pegasus...  The Avengers (staff)		65
Hellfire Club soldiers		The Hellfire Club		97
Crossbones (Brock Rumlow)	manifestly non-religious	HYDRA; Skeleton Crew		90
The Hellfire Club		[1st app: The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #129 (Jan. 1980)]		191
Tinkerer (Phineas T. Mason)		[serves the underworld]		104
Machinesmith (Samuel Saxon)		Skeleton Crew; The Masters of Evil		50
Asp (Cleo Nefertiti)		BAD Girls, Inc.; Femizons...  Initiative: Women Warriors; Secret Avengers; Serpent Society		15
Mother Night (Susan Scarbo)		Skeleton Crew		29
Sleeper	N.A.	Skeleton Crew		20
The Voice (Jason Lorne Cragg)	Communist	Skeleton Crew		10
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (mentioned)  The Skeleton Crew search for the Red Skull.	Nazi	Axis Mundi; HYDRA...  The People's Militia; THEM [Captain America's arch-nemy]		298

The Skeleton Crew first comes together in this issue. This super-villain team of henchmen and agents of the Red Skull originally consists of Crossbones, Mother Night, The Voice (Jason Lorne Cragg) and Machinesmith, who is using the Fourth Sleeper (referred to simply as "Sleeper") as a body. Other villains will later join the Skeleton Crew: Minister Blood, Blackwing and Jack O'Lantern.

Most of the members of the Skeleton Crew were mercenaries who did not share the Red Skull's Nazi ideology.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Captain America #369 (Apr. 1990) created 25 January 2011. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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