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Captain America (vol. 1) #170 (Feb. 1974):
“J’accuse!”
by Steve Englehart, Mike Friedrich, Sal Buscema, Vince Colletta

Captain America (vol. 1) #170

Title: “J’accuse!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Feb. 1974

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Steve Englehart, Mike Friedrich
Art by: Sal Buscema, Vince Colletta


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 Captain America (Steve Rogers)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  Marvel Timely 5,992
Falcon Falcon (Sam Wilson) hero
CBR Scale: S Baptist
black; SHIELD Super-Agents...  Marvel 531
Nefarius Moonstone (Lloyd Bloch) villain
CBR Scale: I Committee To Regain America's
Principles (temporary)
Secret Empire Marvel 10
Black Panther Black Panther (T'Challa) hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M African primal-indigenous
religion; Black Panther Cult
(leader)
black; Fantastic Force...  Marvel 786
Leila Taylor Leila Taylor supporting character
CBR Scale: M black supremacist
black
[Falcon's former girlfriend]
Marvel 50
Quentin Harderman Quentin Harderman villain
CBR Scale: S Committee To Regain America's
Principles (leader)
Secret Empire (ally) Marvel 6
Committee To Regain America's Principles Committee To Regain America's Principles villain group
CBR Scale: M Committee To Regain America's
Principles
Secret Empire
[launched smear campaign against Captain America]
Marvel 5
unnamed security guard
(7-panel cameo, pg. 10-11)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [killed by Moonstone while stealing moon rock] Marvel 1
Stone-Face Stone-Face
(6-panel cameo, pg. 15-16)
villain
  black
[former leader of Harlem gangs]
Marvel 14
Tanzika
(6-panel cameo, pg. 8, panels 2-7)
supporting character villain
CBR Scale: R African primal-indigenous
religion: Black Panther Cult
black Marvel 11
Jangles
(5-panel cameo, pg. 16, panels 1-2, 4-6)
villain
  [henchman] Marvel 2
Lee
(4-panel cameo, pg. 2-3)
supporting character
 indeterminate  black; NYPD
[tried to arrest Captain America (framed for murder)]
Marvel 1
Viper Viper (Jordan Dixon)
(3-panel cameo, pg. 12, panels 3, 5-6) 
villain
CBR Scale: S activist; Committee To Regain
America's Principles
(temporary)
Crime Wave; Secret Empire...  Marvel 10
Hank Hank
(3-panel cameo, pg. 2-3)
supporting character
 indeterminate  NYPD
[tried to arrest Captain America (framed for murder)]
Marvel 1
Jack
(3-panel cameo, pg. 10, panels 4-6) 
supporting character
 indeterminate  [killed by Moonstone while stealing moon rock] Marvel 1
The Sanitation Unit
(1-panel cameo, pg. 19, panel 5)
villain group based on a real person
CBR Scale: D Committee To Regain America's
Principles
[engineered prison break for Captain America] Marvel 3
Number Four
(1-panel cameo, pg. 19, panel 5)
villain
  Secret Empire; The Sanitation Unit
[tried to bust Captain America out of jail]
Marvel 3
Number One
(1-panel cameo, pg. 19, panel 5)
villain
  Secret Empire; The Sanitation Unit
[tried to bust Captain America out of jail]
Marvel 3
Number Eight
(1-panel cameo, pg. 19, panel 5)
villain
  Secret Empire; The Sanitation Unit
[tried to bust Captain America out of jail]
Marvel 3
Tumbler Tumbler (John Robert Keane)
(corpse, pg. 2, panel 2)
villain
CBR Scale: I Committee To Regain America's
Principles (temporary)
Secret Empire Marvel 5
Secret Empire Secret Empire
(behind the scenes)
villain group
  [1st app: Tales to Astonish (vol. 1) #81 (July 1966)] Marvel 120
The Thing The Thing (Ben Grimm)
(mentioned, pg. 3, panel 4) 
hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  Marvel 5,017
The Watcher The Watcher (Uatu)
(mentioned, pg. 10-11) 
supporting character
CBR Scale: S monotheist / Watcher religion,
focusing on non-interference
and observation
The Watchers Marvel 582
Morgan Morgan
(mentioned, pg. 16, panel 1) 
villain
  [leader of own crime organization based in Harlem] Marvel 28
unnamed store clerk
(mentioned, pg. 2, panel 3) 
supporting character
  [attacked by Tumbler in plot to discredit Captain America] Marvel 1
M'Deari
(mentioned, pg. 15, panel 4) 
supporting character
CBR Scale: R African primal-indigenous
religion: Black Panther Cult
black
[beloved of pilot who flew Leila to Nigeria]
Marvel 1