ComicBookReligion.com logo

Captain America (vol. 1) #232 (Apr. 1979):
“The Flame and the Fury”
by Roger McKenzie, Jim Shooter, Sal Buscema, Don Perlin

Captain America (vol. 1) #232

Title: “The Flame and the Fury”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 1979

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Roger McKenzie, Jim Shooter
Art by: Sal Buscema, Don Perlin


20 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 Captain America (Steve Rogers)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  Marvel Timely 5,992
Peggy Carter Peggy Carter supporting character
  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff)
[Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]
Marvel 72
The Grand Director The Grand Director (William Burnside) villain hero
CBR Scale: M idolizes Captain America
National Force
[taught history]
Marvel 13
NYPD NYPD supporting character group real/historical person
  [police department] Marvel DC 1,396
thugs thugs
(details) 
villain group real/historical person
  [occupation]   100
National Force National Force villain group
CBR Scale: D neo-fascists; white supremacists; Nazi
[terrorist] Marvel 73
Morgan Morgan villain
  [leader of own crime organization based in Harlem] Marvel 28
Pigsticker (Carl Peel)
(pg. 11-12)
supporting character
  [junkie; provided info to Captain America] Marvel 1
Sarge
(pg. 4-5, 9)
supporting character
 indeterminate  NYPD
[desk sargeant where Steve Rogers worked as cop]
Marvel 1
Doctor Faustus (Johann Fennhoff)
(shadow cameo, pg. 16, panel 7)
villain
CBR Scale: S Nazi / Freudian
National Force (founder); The Corporation
[led own gang]
Marvel 61
Commissioner Feingold Commissioner Feingold
(9-panel cameo, pg. 9-10)
supporting character
  [police commissioner] Marvel 8
Agent 13 Agent 13 (Sharon Carter)
(5-panel cameo, pg. 17, panels 3-7)
supporting character hero
CBR Scale: S Christian (denomination
unknown)
Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel 262
Reese
(4-panel cameo, pg. 14-15)
villain
  black Marvel 1
mysterious stalker from The Brotherhood
(2-panel cameo, pg. 7, panels 6-7)
villain
CBR Scale: D The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood Marvel 2
The Brotherhood
(behind the scenes, pg. 7, panels 6-7) 
villain group
  [a stalker from the Brotherood watched Captain America] Marvel 3
Luke Cage Power Man (Luke Cage)
(mentioned, pg. 14, panel 4) 
hero
CBR Scale: I Christian (denomination
unknown)
black; Heroes for Hire... 
[formerly owned a bar and theater]
Marvel 951
Iron Fist Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
(mentioned, pg. 14, panel 4) 
hero
CBR Scale: M Tibetan (K'un L'un) Buddhism
Heroes for Hire; Secret Defenders...  Marvel 672
S.H.I.E.L.D. S.H.I.E.L.D.
(mentioned, pg. 3, 7) 
supporting character group
  [government agency; intelligence agency...] Marvel 1,188
Nazis Nazis
(mentioned, pg. 6, panel 4) 
villain group real/historical person
CBR Scale: D Nazi
[generic WWII Nazis] Timely Marvel, etc. 4,222
U.S. Army U.S. Army
(mentioned, pg. 6, panel 4) 
supporting character group real/historical person
  [military unit] Marvel DC 1,801

One source we have seen (http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=16952) lists Sgt. Brian Muldoon as a character who appears in this issue, but all other sources we have seen do not mention this character. After carefully reading this issue for ourselves, we have concluded that it is not Muldoon who appears, but rather it is the desk sergeant who was seen previously (in Captain America volume 1 #153). Muldoon was unmasked as the "Cowled Commander," and he would probably still be in prison for his times. He certainly would regained his previous position with the 47th Precinct. Moreover, the man who "rookie Steve Rogers" addresses as "Sarge" in this issue looks like Brian Muldoon.