Captain America (vol. 1) #162 (June 1973):
“This Way Lies Madness!”
by Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, John Verpoorten

Captain America (vol. 1) #162

Title: “This Way Lies Madness!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: June 1973

Publisher:
Written by: Steve Englehart
Art by: Sal Buscema, John Verpoorten

26 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
Falcon (Sam Wilson)	Baptist	black; SHIELD Super-Agents...  The Avengers		531
Agent 13 (Sharon Carter)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D.		262
Peggy Carter		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff) [Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]		72
Doctor Faustus (Johann Fennhoff)	Nazi / Freudian	National Force (founder); The Corporation [led own gang]		61
S.H.I.E.L.D.		[government agency; intelligence agency...]		1,188
Amanda Carter	Christian (denomination unknown)	[Sharon Carter's late mother]		4
Harrison Carter	Christian (denomination unknown)	[Sharon Carter's late father]		5
Dr. Johann Wolfgang		[assistant to Captain America enemy Dr. Faustus]		2
Cutler		[henchman]		1
Sturges		[henchman]		1
Harry S Truman (1-panel cameo, pg. 13, panel 7)  In Flashback, Pres. Truman comforts Peggy Carter's parents after fake Captain America disappears. (Or perhaps it is Peggy's doctor.)	Baptist	U.S. Army		174
Bucky (Bucky Barnes) (hallucination, pg. 10, panel 2)  (pg. 14) Captain America: "Peggy Carter... I thought I'd lost her, like I lost Bucky and everything else from the first part of my life!" [other references] Seen on page 10 and cover in hallucination caused by Dr. Faustus.	Protestant (nominal)	Kid Commandos; Liberty Legion...  The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Invaders; The Young Allies		395
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (hallucination, pg. 8-9)  Seen on pages 8-9 and cover in hallucination caused by Dr. Faustus.	Nazi	Axis Mundi; HYDRA...  The People's Militia; THEM [Captain America's arch-nemy]		298
M.O.D.O.K. (George Tarleton) (hallucination, pg. 9, panel 4)  Seen on page 9 and cover in hallucination caused by Dr. Faustus.	Scientism	A.I.M. (leader)		199
Baron Zemo (Dr. Heinrich Zemo) (hallucination, pg. 9, panel 4)  Seen on page 9 and cover in hallucination caused by Dr. Faustus.	Nazi	The Masters of Evil (founder); Thunderbolts (Counter-Earth)		121
Agent Axis (Hiroyuki Kanegawa, Aldo Malvagio, Berthold Volker) (hallucination, pg. 9, panel 4)  Seen on page 9 and cover in hallucination caused by Dr. Faustus.	Shinto / Nazi / Aryan supremacist / Italian sadist	Axis Mundi [changed to Pterorist by necromancer Jonas Eckhardt]		10
The Grand Director (William Burnside) (photo/picture/video, pg. 13, panel 6)  Sharon Carter: "Then, in '53, came the story that shook the nation." newspaper headline: "Captain America alive! Bucky, too, as duo battles at UN bldg." Sharon Carter: "We didn't know it was the fake, of course-- but it made no difference anyway, after talking to Peggy's doctors. They said her mental state had become so precarious that..." 1950s Captain America's face seen in newspaper photo in flashback, as Sharon Carter narrates.	idolizes Captain America	National Force [taught history]		13
Nazis (someone disguised or dressed as, pg. 1-4)  Henchmen of Dr. Faustus dress as Nazi soldiers, but they are explicitly identified as hired thugs who are not actual Nazis.	Nazi	[generic WWII Nazis]	, etc.	4,222
Iron Man (Tony Stark) (mentioned, pg. 11, panel 1)  Falcon (after crashing through glass): "My hunting glove protected by head-- but it is times like this I start wishin' I'd designed a costume more on the order of Iron Man's."	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Force Works; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
The Sub-Mariner (Namor) (mentioned, pg. 17, panel 1)  Captain America: "It's the curse-- my continuing curse: to have remained young while everyone around me turned old! Just me and the Sub-Mariner-- he because of his hybrid body chemistry-- and I because I was frozen-- Only we have stayed as we were, in a world of the middle-aged!"	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  human; Illuminati; The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Cabal; The Defenders; The Invaders; The Order; X-Men		1,864
Vision (mentioned, pg. 14, panel 3)  Quote: "His [Captain America's] voice is as inhumanly cold as his fellow Avenger's, the Vision's."	synthezoid; Catholic (temporary)	A-Next; Galactic Guardians...  Guardians of the Galaxy; The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles); Young Avengers		1,393
Bucky (Jack Monroe) (mentioned, pg. 13, panel 6)  Sharon Carter: "Then, in '53, came the story that shook the nation." newspaper headline: "Captain America alive! Bucky, too, as duo battles at UN bldg." Sharon Carter: "We didn't know it was the fake, of course-- but it made no difference anyway, after talking to Peggy's doctors. They said her mental state had become so precarious that..."		Secret Defenders [sidekick of 1950s Captain America]		131
Godzilla (mentioned, pg. 8, panel 3)  Captain America (referring to a monstrous hallucination/illusion created by Dr. Faustus): "You see? My shield went right through it and bounced off the wall behind!" Falcon: "Godzilla's vanished completely! You were right, man!"	N.A.	[1st app: Godzilla (1954)]	Toho Company	131
Douglas Fairbanks (mentioned, pg. 17, panel 2)  henchman (referring to Captain America): "Look at 'im-- comin' down the stairs like Douglas Fairbanks on a good day!"	Jewish Catholic	[actor; film producer...]		90
Betty Boop (mentioned, pg. 19, panel 2)  Peggy Carter (knocking out Dr. Wolfgang with a karate chop): "I've seen more menace in a Betty Boop cartoon, bosche!"		[1st app: Dizzy Dishes (1930)]	Fleischer Studios, etc.	127

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