Captain America (vol. 1) #187 (July 1975):
“The Madness Maze!”
by John Warner, Frank Robbins, Frank Chiaramonte

Captain America (vol. 1) #187

Title: “The Madness Maze!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: July 1975

Publisher:
Written by: John Warner
Art by: Frank Robbins, Frank Chiaramonte

13 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
Alchemoid (details)  Alchemoid is not identified by name and seen fully until issue's last page (a splash page). But he featured prominently before, battling Cap in shadows.	Druidism	[1st app: Captain America (vol. 1) #187 (July 1975)]		3
Dredmund Druid (Dredmund Cromwell)	Druidism; cult leader	[ 1st app: (as Druid) Strange Tales (vol. 1) #144/1 (May 1966); (as Dredmund Druid) Captain America (vol. 1) #403 ]		15
Walking Sponges	N.A.	[artificial spongelike creatures in Maze of the Ancients]		1
Druid Men	Druidism	[robed acolytes following Dredmund Druid]		2
Gabriel Jones (3-panel cameo, pg. 1-2)	Christian (denomination unknown)	black; Godzilla Squad...  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos		125
Peggy Carter (3-panel cameo, pg. 1-2)		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff) [Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]		72
Falcon (Sam Wilson) (2-panel cameo, pg. 1-2)	Baptist	black; SHIELD Super-Agents...  The Avengers		531
S.H.I.E.L.D. (mentioned, pg. 17, panels 2-3)  Dredmund Druid (to Cap): "But your death is still inevitable--as is the ultimate fall of S.H.I.E.L.D.-- at the hand of the Druid! This, then, is both death-knell and call to battle, all hailed by the elimination of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s number one operative!" The Druid announces that Cap will die as part of his vendetta against SHIELD.		[government agency; intelligence agency...]		1,188
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (mentioned, pg. 14)  Quote: "Captain America is angry! It is an anger that has accumulated, not just in the maze, but before--from the Red Skull, his quest for purpose as Nomad and the myriad other fragments of life that have all come down on his head in too short a time." Captain America is still reeling from the shock of the Red Skull's revelation that his crimefighting partner was a pawn of the Skull all along.	Nazi	Axis Mundi; HYDRA...  The People's Militia; THEM [Captain America's arch-nemy]		298
Alice in Wonderland (mentioned, pg. 2, panel 6)  Captain America (while being lowered via levitation beam into a hole): "Well, so much for that theory... but I'm taking no bets about finding a bottle at the bottom of this that says drink me!"	Anglican	[1st app: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)]	Macmillan	161
Sam Hill (mentioned, pg. 6, panel 1)  Captain America: "Huh?? What in Sam Hill was... it sounds like something is eating the maze! Doesn't anything make sense around here?"		[source of euphemism "What in the Sam Hill...?"]
Rube Goldberg (mentioned, pg. 3, panel 1)  Captain America: "A maze! And if I don't slow down somehow before landing... I've had it! If someone means this to do me in, they've gone to ridiculous extremes. Who am I up against... Rube Goldberg?"	Jewish	[designed fanciful, complex "Rube Goldberg machines"]		7

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