Captain America (vol. 1) #167 (Nov. 1973):
“Ashes to Ashes”
by Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, Frank Giacoia

Captain America (vol. 1) #167

Title: “Ashes to Ashes”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Nov. 1973

Publisher:
Written by: Steve Englehart
Art by: Sal Buscema, Frank Giacoia

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
Yellow Claw (Plan Tzu)	Chinese traditional religion; alchemist; occult	[leader of own crime organization]		15
Nick Fury	secular	black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Howling Commandos; The Ultimates		1,898
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
Dum Dum Dugan	Catholic	Deadly Dozen; Godzilla Squad...  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos		555
Contessa Valentina		Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D.		146
Life Model Decoys	N.A.	S.H.I.E.L.D. [android duplicates of people, usually VIPs]		24
Leila Taylor	black supremacist	black [Falcon's former girlfriend]		50
Peggy Carter		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff) [Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]		72
Suwan	possessed by spirit	Asian; Atlas Foundation [Yellow Claw's traitorous niece]		40
Fan-Le-Tamen	Egyptian classical religion; spirit	[Yellow Claw put this evil spirit into his niece Suwan]		2
unnamed assassin (9-panel cameo, pg. 5-7)	Chinese traditional religion	Asian [Contessa stopped him from killing Nick Fury]		1
Anubis (statue, pg. 3, panel 5)	Egyptian deity	[Heliopolis god of funeral rites]		9
Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) (mentioned, pg. 12, panel 7)  Yellow Claw (to Suwan): "...the robots used to impersonate us in the past... ...so too, do I desire the death of whomever designed those robots-- for HIS is the power of a potential enemy!" In this issue, there are at least 3 or 4 other references to the creator of the Yellow Claw and Suwan impostor robots, but no references to this creator (Doctor Doom) by name.	Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism	Fearsome Four; The Cabal		1,176
Nazis (mentioned, pg. 11, panel 4)  Captain America (to Peggy Carter): "Mademoiselle... You can't fight with me. It just wouldn't be safe for you. The Nazis were children compared to the supervillains of today."	Nazi	[generic WWII Nazis]	, etc.	4,222
Osiris (mentioned, pg. 16, panel 8)  Yellow Claw (chanting incantation): "Dwellers in... antiquity... among the aged... pyramids... great Osiris ...noble Set..."	Egyptian deity	Council of Godheads [one of the Gods of Heliopolis]		40
Fritz von Voltzmann (Karl von Horstbadden) (mentioned, pg. 17, panel 1)  Suwan: "Good! Get that one in the hold and then get the robot of Voltzmann!"	Nazi	[Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration camp]		23
Amanda Carter (mentioned, pg. 10-11)  Sharon Carter (to Steve Rogers): "Steve, Peggy's still missing! My parents are frantic--" [more]	Christian (denomination unknown)	[Sharon Carter's late mother]		4
Harrison Carter (mentioned, pg. 10-11)  Sharon Carter (to Steve Rogers): "Steve, Peggy's still missing! My parents are frantic--" [more]	Christian (denomination unknown)	[Sharon Carter's late father]		5
Seth (mentioned, pg. 16, panel 8)  Yellow Claw (chanting incantation): "Dwellers in... antiquity... among the aged... pyramids... great Osiris ...noble Set..."	Egyptian deity	[god of evil and death; one of the Gods of Heliopolis]		45
Yellow Claw (imposter) (mentioned, pg. 12, panel 5)  Yellow Claw (to Suwan): "...for now, we must overcome everyone on this aircraft-- and steal at least one of the robots used to impersonate us in the past!*" [footnote: "See Strange Tales #160-167.] [more] There are many references in this issue to the Yellow Claw and Suwan impostor robots. Story focuses on the real Yellow Claw and Suwan trying to steal these from SHIELD.	N.A.	[robot look-a-like of original Yellow Claw]		1
Commissioner Feingold (mentioned, pg. 10, panel 2)  Steve Rogers (thinking, worried about his lack of money): "I may have to give the Police Commissioner a call -- see about going back on active duty, at least..."		[police commissioner]		8
The Avengers (mentioned, pg. 11, panel 4)  Captain America (to Peggy Carter): "Mademoiselle... You can't fight with me. It just wouldn't be safe for you. The Nazis were children compared to the supervillains of today. Besides, with the Avengers and Falc, I have all the partners I need."		[1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		100
Radames (mentioned, pg. 14, panel 1)  Yellow Claw (to Suwan): "The gas works exactly as Radames, the dog who invented it for me, claimed it would! The SHIELD agents are ALL asleep."		[invented sleeping gas used against SHIELD Heli-Carrier]		1

One source (http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=8666) lists a Suwan robot as one of the characters in this issue. Suwan apparently dies in this issue, burned to ash by her grand-uncle Yellow Claw. The concept that this might have been a robot (created by Doctor Doom) is probably a retcon, used to explain how Suwan shows up later, not dead. Or something.

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