Captain America (vol. 1) #186 (June 1975):
“Mind Cage!”
by Steve Englehart, John Warner, Frank Robbins, Mike Esposito, etc.

Captain America (vol. 1) #186

Title: “Mind Cage!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: June 1975

Publisher:
Written by: Steve Englehart, John Warner
Art by: Frank Robbins, Mike Esposito, Frank Giacoia

28 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) (lead character)	Baptist	black; SHIELD Super-Agents...  The Avengers		531
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt)	Nazi	Axis Mundi; HYDRA...  The People's Militia; THEM [Captain America's arch-nemy]		298
S.H.I.E.L.D.		[government agency; intelligence agency...]		1,188
Gabriel Jones	Christian (denomination unknown)	black; Godzilla Squad...  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos		125
Roxxon		[company]		36
Redwing (flashback)	N.A.	falcon; Pet Avengers [falcon; partner of Falcon (Sam Wilson)]		128
Peggy Carter		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff) [Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]		72
The Cosmic Cube	pseudo-cosmic entity	A.I.M.		10
Jordl	Nazi	[helped Red Skull's campaign to ruin U.S. economy]		2
Agent 13 (Sharon Carter) (7-panel cameo, pg. 4, 10-11)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D.		262
Dave Cox (5-panel cameo, pg. 10-11)	radical pacifist	[soldier]		16
Franz Cadavus (2-panel cameo, pg. 4, 9)  flashback	Nazi	Exiles (Red Skull allies)		8
Eric Gruning (2-panel cameo, pg. 4, 9)  flashback	Nazi	Exiles (Red Skull allies) [May have been glimpsed in Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #41.]		8
Iron-Hand Hauptmann (Jurgen Hauptmann) (2-panel cameo, pg. 4, panels 4-5)  flashback	Nazi	Exiles (Red Skull allies) [May have been glimpsed in Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #41.]		16
Angelo Baldini (2-panel cameo, pg. 4, 9)  flashback		Exiles (Red Skull allies) [May have been glimpsed in Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #41.]		7
Yellowjacket (Hank Pym) (1-panel cameo, pg. 4, panel 2)  flashback	atheist	Commission on Superhuman Activities; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Defenders; The Liberators		1,543
Harry (1-panel cameo, pg. 4, panel 2)  Seen in flashback. Not identified by name here, but his name was identified in issue #116, the issue this flashback scene is from.	indeterminate	NYPD [chased Captain America in form of Red Skull]		2
Jaz (1-panel cameo, pg. 6, panel 1)		black [former boss of Falcon when he was criminal]		2
Dredmund Druid (Dredmund Cromwell) (behind the scenes)  Troops working for Dredmund Druid help Captain America defeat the Red Skull's thugs.	Druidism; cult leader	[ 1st app: (as Druid) Strange Tales (vol. 1) #144/1 (May 1966); (as Dredmund Druid) Captain America (vol. 1) #403 ]		15
General Ching (behind the scenes, pg. 4, 9)  Krushki and Ching are not actually seen, but the Exiles are referred to by name, and other 4 core Exiles are seen in flashback.		Asian; Exiles (Red Skull allies)		10
Ivan Krushki (behind the scenes, pg. 4, 9)  Krushki and Ching are not actually seen, but the Exiles are referred to by name, and other 4 core Exiles are seen in flashback.		Exiles (Red Skull allies) [May have been glimpsed in Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #41.]		8
Nick Fury (mentioned, pg. 13, panel 3)  Gabe Jones (seeing Nazi henchmen watching Captain America battle Falcon on closed-circuit TV screen): "Man, I haven't seen anybody so glued to a TV set since Fury stopped watchin' 'I Spy' reruns!"	secular	black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Howling Commandos; The Ultimates		1,898
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (mentioned, pg. 8, panel 3)  Red Skull (speaking about the Falcon): "Only his love for birds did I leave him -- though I strengthened it, giving him and the falcon he'd trained a super-normal mental link--* --so that I might use that trait as the basis for -- a perfect partner for you!" footnote: "*Remember Prof. X in #174?"	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Adolf Hitler (mentioned, pg. 1)  Red Skull (speaking about the Falcon): "He is mine! I created him-- a helpless puppet to serve the will of the Red Skull! Now--after years of senseless defeat, this cretin becomes the symbol of my greatest triumph! Heil Hitler!"	Nazi	[1st app: Uma Kaeru (1935)]	Shochiku Kinema	1,593
M.O.D.O.K. (George Tarleton) (mentioned, pg. 10, panel 3)  Red Skull: "--a confrontation I had now decided to lose, as the final proof of the power of your partnership! I could not know MODOK would enter the fray and render the Cube impotent--"	Scientism	A.I.M. (leader)		199
Kelly Robinson (mentioned, pg. 13, panel 3)  Gabe Jones (seeing Nazi henchmen watching Captain America battle Falcon on closed-circuit TV screen): "Man, I haven't seen anybody so glued to a TV set since Fury stopped watchin' 'I Spy' reruns!"		[pro tennis player turned spy]		83
Alexander Scott (mentioned, pg. 13, panel 3)  Gabe Jones (seeing Nazi henchmen watching Captain America battle Falcon on closed-circuit TV screen): "Man, I haven't seen anybody so glued to a TV set since Fury stopped watchin' 'I Spy' reruns!"		black		84

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