Captain America (vol. 1) #176 (Aug. 1974):
“Captain America Must Die!”
by Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, Vince Colletta

Captain America (vol. 1) #176

Title: “Captain America Must Die!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Aug. 1974

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

39 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
Iron Man (Tony Stark)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Force Works; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Thor (Donald Blake)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Asgardian; Cosmic Avengers...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Thor Corps		4,362
Nazis (flashback)	Nazi	[generic WWII Nazis]	, etc.	4,222
Agent 13 (Sharon Carter)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D.		262
Secret Empire		[1st app: Tales to Astonish (vol. 1) #81 (July 1966)]		120
Peggy Carter		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff) [Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]		72
Professor Reinstein (Professor Abraham Erskine) (6-panel cameo, pg. 4-5)		[creator of the Super-Soldier Serum]		96
Heinz Kruger (5-panel cameo, pg. 3-5)  flashback	Nazi	[Captain America's 1st foe; Gestapo spy; killed Dr. Erskine]		15
Vision (4-panel cameo, pg. 16, 18)	synthezoid; Catholic (temporary)	A-Next; Galactic Guardians...  Guardians of the Galaxy; The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles); Young Avengers		1,393
Redwing (4-panel cameo, pg. 11-12)  flashback	N.A.	falcon; Pet Avengers [falcon; partner of Falcon (Sam Wilson)]		128
General Chester Phillips (4-panel cameo, pg. 3, panels 1-2, 6-7)  flashback		Project: Rebirth (leader); U.S. Army [involved with Project: Rebirth, Captain America's origin]		17
Sgt. Stone (4-panel cameo, pg. 2-3)		U.S. Army [rejected Steve Rogers' application to join Army]		1
Edwin Jarvis (2-panel cameo, pg. 10-11)	Anglican	The Avengers (staff)		669
Agent X-13 (Cynthia Glass) (2-panel cameo, pg. 3, panels 5-6)  flashback	Jewish Bundist	FBI		6
Giant-Man (Hank Pym) (1-panel cameo, pg. 6)  flashback	atheist	Commission on Superhuman Activities; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Defenders; The Liberators		1,543
Bucky (Bucky Barnes) (1-panel cameo, pg. 6)  flashback	Protestant (nominal)	Kid Commandos; Liberty Legion...  The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Invaders; The Young Allies		395
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (1-panel cameo, pg. 6)  flashback	Nazi	Axis Mundi; HYDRA...  The People's Militia; THEM [Captain America's arch-nemy]		298
M.O.D.O.K. (George Tarleton) (1-panel cameo, pg. 12, panel 2)  flashback	Scientism	A.I.M. (leader)		199
Kang (Nathaniel Richards) (1-panel cameo, pg. 8, panel 5)  flashback		Council of Kangs [born in 31th century]		274
Mole Man (Harvey Elder) (1-panel cameo, pg. 8, panel 4)  flashback		[ruler of much of Subterranea]		297
Captain America (William Burnside) (1-panel cameo, pg. 14, panel 2)  flashback	idolizes Captain America	National Force [taught history]		13
Dr. Murray Anderson (1-panel cameo, pg. 3, panel 7)  Flashback. Observed creation of Captain America. Seen standing next to Heinz Kruger and General Chester Phillips.		Project: Rebirth [present at creation of Captain America]		4
Number One (Richard Nixon) (1-panel cameo, pg. 7)  flashback	Quaker	Secret Empire (leader)		4
Rock Trolls (1-panel cameo, pg. 8, panel 3)  flashback	Norse/Teutonic paganism	[hidden race]		46
Diamond Head (Rocky) (1-panel cameo, pg. 12, panel 1)  flashback	black supremacist	Maggia [led black supremacist Diamond Head gang]		1
Stone-Face (1-panel cameo, pg. 12, panel 3)  flashback		black [former leader of Harlem gangs]		14
Kallusians (1-panel cameo, pg. 9, panel 6)	alien	[alien race]		2
Adolf Hitler (photo/picture/video, pg. 2, panel 4)  Hitler can be seen in newsreel young Steve Roger watches.	Nazi	[1st app: Uma Kaeru (1935)]	Shochiku Kinema	1,593
Uncle Sam (name seen in illustration (or on screen), pg. 3, panel 2)  recruitment poster		[from American folklore]		17
Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (mentioned, pg. 14, panel 3)  Peggy Carter (to Captain America): "Think about your name! It's not Daredevil, or Mr. Fantastic, or anything like that! It's Captain America!"	Catholic	Marvel Knights; Weapon X (Exiles)		1,801
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (mentioned, pg. 14, panel 3)  Peggy Carter (to Captain America): "Think about your name! It's not Daredevil, or Mr. Fantastic, or anything like that! It's Captain America!"	humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist	Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		4,661
The Wasp (Janet van Dyne) (mentioned, pg. 9, panel 6)  Iron Man: "For example-- remember when we saved the Wasp's life by rescuing her doctor from his subterranean captors?"	Dutch Reformed (nominal); atheist	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Ultimates		1,339
The Cosmic Cube (mentioned, pg. 11, panel 4)  Falcon (to Captain America): "I'll never forget the first time we met! You'd been switched into another body by the Cosmic Cube, and trapped on a desert island with a bunch of killers called the Exiles... but you weren't sweatin' it at all!"	pseudo-cosmic entity	A.I.M.		10
Errol Flynn (mentioned, pg. 3, panel 7)  Captain America (recalling the events leading up to him first became a super-soldier): "It was an adventure beyond compare-- just like in the movies, only Bogart and Flynn were nowhere around. The audience--all high-ranking officials--was here to watch ME!"		[actor]		72
Humphrey Bogart (mentioned, pg. 3, panel 7)  Captain America (recalling the events leading up to him first became a super-soldier): "It was an adventure beyond compare-- just like in the movies, only Bogart and Flynn were nowhere around. The audience--all high-ranking officials--was here to watch ME!"	Episcopalian	[actor]	Vitaphone Corporation	156
Dr. Hjarmal Knute Svenson (mentioned, pg. 9, panel 6)  Iron Man: "For example-- remember when we saved the Wasp's life by rescuing her doctor from his subterranean captors?" Iron Man refers to Wasp's doctor: Dr. Svenson.		[doctor; explorer...]		1
Exiles (Red Skull allies) (mentioned, pg. 11, panel 4)  Falcon (to Captain America): "I'll never forget the first time we met! You'd been switched into another body by the Cosmic Cube, and trapped on a desert island with a bunch of killers called the Exiles... but you weren't sweatin' it at all!"

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