Captain America (vol. 1) #172 (Apr. 1974):
“Believe It or Not: The Banshee!”
by Mike Friedrich, Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, Vince Colletta

Captain America (vol. 1) #172

Title: “Believe It or Not: The Banshee!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 1974

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

22 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
Banshee (Sean Cassidy)	Catholic	Factor Three; Generation X (teacher)...  X-Corps (leader); X-Men		1,340
Falcon (Sam Wilson)	Baptist	black; SHIELD Super-Agents...  The Avengers		531
Cyclops (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
Redwing	N.A.	falcon; Pet Avengers [falcon; partner of Falcon (Sam Wilson)]		128
The Sanitation Unit	Committee To Regain America's Principles	[engineered prison break for Captain America]		3
Moonstone (Lloyd Bloch)	Committee To Regain America's Principles (temporary)	Secret Empire		10
Committee To Regain America's Principles	Committee To Regain America's Principles	Secret Empire [launched smear campaign against Captain America]		5
Number Four (details)  Not identified by name, but presumably present among other Sanitation Unit agents who appear in this issue.		Secret Empire; The Sanitation Unit [tried to bust Captain America out of jail]		3
Number One (details)  Not identified by name, but presumably present among other Sanitation Unit agents who appear in this issue.		Secret Empire; The Sanitation Unit [tried to bust Captain America out of jail]		3
Number Eight (details)  Not identified by name, but presumably present among other Sanitation Unit agents who appear in this issue.		Secret Empire; The Sanitation Unit [tried to bust Captain America out of jail]		3
Number Twenty		Secret Empire; The Sanitation Unit		2
Number Twelve		Secret Empire; The Sanitation Unit		2
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (5-panel cameo, pg. 19, panels 1-4, 6)	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
unnamed truck driver (5-panel cameo, pg. 8-9)		[gave Cap, Falcon ride from NYC to Nashville]		1
Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) (3-panel cameo, pg. 19, panels 1-2, 4)	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Quentin Harderman (3-panel cameo, pg. 2, panels 3-5)	Committee To Regain America's Principles (leader)	Secret Empire (ally)		6
Secret Empire (behind the scenes)		[1st app: Tales to Astonish (vol. 1) #81 (July 1966)]		120
Dwight D. Eisenhower (mentioned, pg. 3, panel 5)  Sanitation Unit agent: "Number Twelve is right! Guys like MacArthur--Eisenhower--they knew they were men like you! But these new fellows think they're little tin gods!"	Jehovah's Witnesses; Presbyterian (convert)	[general; U.S. President]		262
Douglas MacArthur (mentioned, pg. 3, panel 5)  Sanitation Unit agent: "Number Twelve is right! Guys like MacArthur--Eisenhower--they knew they were men like you! But these new fellows think they're little tin gods!"		U.S. Army		113
The Bowery Boys (mentioned, pg. 3, panel 2)  Moonstone (Lloyd Bloch): "You're the Sanitation Squad! You're the old pros in crime! Well, so far you've acted like the Bowery Boys!"		[1st app: Dead End (1935)]	Monogram Pictures	48
Merle Haggard (mentioned, pg. 9, panel 4)  Banshee (thinking): "Sirens be praised! I was first in line for the Merle Haggard tickets! Attending concerts is a strange way indeed for a man in hiding to pass his time--yet what could be safer? --For who would expect an Irish-born Banshee to be a fan of American country music?"		[musician; singer...]		64

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