Captain America (vol. 1) #181 (Jan. 1975):
“The Mark of Madness!”
by Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, Vince Colletta

Captain America (vol. 1) #181

Title: “The Mark of Madness!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1975

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

29 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.
Nomad (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
Captain America (Roscoe Simons)		[Captain America fan; briefly replaced Steve Rogers as Cap]		11
The Sub-Mariner (Namor)	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
Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) (details)  also identified as "Madame Viper"	nihilist	Fangs (leader); HYDRA...  Serpent Society; Serpent Squad; The Inner Circle [former servant of Chthon]		153
Roxxon (details)  Featured extensively, incl. Roxxon president, oil rig, oil rig workers, as well as Roxxon's own security task force.		[company]		36
Redwing	N.A.	falcon; Pet Avengers [falcon; partner of Falcon (Sam Wilson)]		128
Cobra (Klaus Voorhees)		Initiative; Scavengers...  Serpent Society (leader); Serpent Squad; Thunderbolts Army		87
Princess Python (Zelda DuBois)		Circus of Crime; Femizons...  Serpent Society; Serpent Squad		93
The Eel (Leopold Stryke)		Crime Wave; Emissaries of Evil (Egghead)...  Fellowship of Fear; Serpent Squad		30
Krang	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Serpent Squad		7
Precious (Pythagoras) (details)  Princess Python repeatedly refers to her snake as "Precious" (at least 3 times). She may simply be using this as a term of endearment, but perhaps this is the snake's name, or one of the snake's name?	N.A.	python [python of Princess Python]		3
Hugh Jones		Serpent Squad (founder) [Roxxon president; briefly wore Serpent Crown]		15
The Serpent Crown	sentient inanimate; demonolatry	[receptacle for serpent god Set's power]		68
Chester (5-panel cameo, pg. 12-13)		black		1
Joe (5-panel cameo, pg. 12-13)		[oil rig worker]		1
Agent 13 (Sharon Carter) (4-panel cameo, pg. 9, panels 1, 3-5)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D.		262
Smithers (4-panel cameo, pg. 9, panels 2-5)		[butler for Sharon Carter's parents]		3
Gabriel Jones (2-panel cameo, pg. 11, panels 6, 8)	Christian (denomination unknown)	black; Godzilla Squad...  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos		125
Peggy Carter (2-panel cameo, pg. 11, panels 6, 8)		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff) [Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]		72
Nick Fury (1-panel cameo, pg. 8, panel 2)	secular	black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Howling Commandos; The Ultimates		1,898
S.H.I.E.L.D. (1-panel cameo, pg. 8, panel 2)  Nick Fury and Dum Dum Dugan are seen, in SHIELD headquarters, taking a call from Nomad (Steve Rogers). Also, SHIELD agents Sharon Carter, Gabe Jones, and Peggy Carter make off-duty cameos.		[government agency; intelligence agency...]		1,188
Dum Dum Dugan (1-panel cameo, pg. 8, panel 2)	Catholic	Deadly Dozen; Godzilla Squad...  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos		555
Abraham Lincoln (statue, pg. 1-2)  Nomad (Steve Rogers, who recently quit being Captain America) stands before the seated statue in the Lincoln Memorial, reading, pondering 4 paragraphs of Lincoln's words about freedom and tyranny.	Baptist (raised)	[U.S. President]		355
God (mentioned, pg. 1)  Steve Rogers ponders Abraham Lincoln's words: "What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? ...Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere."	God	[1st app: Old Testament (1402 B.C.)]	various	313
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (mentioned, pg. 9, panel 6)  Falcon (to Redwing): "Good work, Reddy! Your trainin's comin' along fine! I'm beginnin' to believe what Professor X said, about you 'n' me havin' a special link-- --an' the time has come to prove it!"	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Lady Dorma (mentioned, pg. 7, panel 5)  Namor: "That voice! I've heard men--yes, and even the Lady Dorma-- speak in such tones! I could never forget! That man is under the spell of the Serpent!"	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean [Namor's late wife; born in Antartic Atlantean settlement]		150
The Evil Eye of Avalon (mentioned, pg. 4, panel 4)  Nomad (Steve Rogers, speaking to Namor): "But you're just as hot-headed now as when we battled for the Evil Eye in Japan!*" footnote: "As recorded in Chapter 8 of the classic Avengers-Defenders clash in Avengers #117"	magical artifact	[powerful matic item; may or may not be sentient]		8
Brian Wilson (mentioned, pg. 10, panel 8)  Falcon: "It takes skill and a cool head!" Roscoe (trying to be "new" Captain America): "Well, as Brian Wilson sang 'way back in 1964, boid-brain-- 'I'm a real cool head.' Watch me!"		[led Beach Boys]		102

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