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Captain America (vol. 1) #253 (Jan. 1981):
“Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot”
by John Byrne, Roger Stern, Joe Rubinstein

Captain America (vol. 1) #253

Title: “Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1981

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: John Byrne, Roger Stern
Art by: John Byrne, Joe Rubinstein


24 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
Edwin Jarvis Edwin Jarvis supporting character
CBR Scale: U Anglican
The Avengers (staff) Marvel 669
Union Jack Union Jack (Montgomery Falsworth) hero
  Freedom's Five; The Invaders Marvel 37
Union Jack Union Jack (Joey Chapman) hero
  Knights of Pendragon; The Invaders Marvel 75
Spitfire Spitfire (Jacqueline Falsworth) hero
  MI-13; The Hellfire Club...  Marvel 127
Bernie Rosenthal Bernie Rosenthal supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[Captain America's former girlfriend, fiance] Marvel 93
Baron Blood Baron Blood (John Falsworth)
(details) 
villain
CBR Scale: M Sect of Chasidm; Nazi
Mys-Tech; Super-Axis Marvel 33
Kenneth Crichton supporting character villain
CBR Scale: M vampire
[Spitfire's son; Union Jack's nephew; art student] Marvel 5
Inspector Sweeney supporting character
  [investigated murders Baron Blood committed] Marvel 2
Hotchkins supporting character
  [1st app: Captain America (vol. 1) #253 (Jan. 1981)] Marvel 1
Jenny supporting character
  [Ken Crichton's girlfriend] Marvel 2
The Sub-Mariner The Sub-Mariner (Namor)
(flashback cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: S Atlantean Greco-Roman
classical religion
Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  Marvel 1,864
Winter Soldier Bucky (Bucky Barnes)
(flashback cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: U Protestant (nominal)
Kid Commandos; Liberty Legion...  Marvel Timely 395
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler
(flashback cameo)
villain real/historical person
CBR Scale: D Nazi
[1st app: Uma Kaeru (1935)] Shochiku Kinema 1,593
Human Torch Human Torch (Jim Hammond)
(flashback cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I N.A.
Heroes for Hire; Penance Council...  Marvel Timely 497
Toro Toro (Thomas Raymond)
(flashback cameo)
hero
  Kid Commandos; The All-Winners Squad...  Marvel Timely 311
Agent Axis (Hiroyuki Kanegawa, Aldo Malvagio, Berthold Volker)
(flashback cameo)
villain group
CBR Scale: D Shinto / Nazi / Aryan supremacist / Italian sadist
Axis Mundi
[changed to Pterorist by necromancer Jonas Eckhardt]
Marvel 10
Blue Bullet Blue Bullet (Professor Johann Goldstein)
(flashback cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: M Jewish
[1st app: The Invaders (vol. 1) #11 (Dec. 1976)] Marvel 5
Warrior Woman Warrior Woman (Frieda Ratsel)
(flashback cameo)
villain scientist
CBR Scale: D Nazi
Axis Mundi; Super-Axis Marvel 28
Master Man Master Man (Wilhelm Lohmer)
(flashback cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: M Nazi; Bundist
Super-Axis Marvel 60
The Face The Face (Colonel Eisen)
(flashback cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: D Nazi
[1st app: The Invaders (vol. 1) #11 (Dec. 1976)] Marvel 3
Asbestos Lady (Vicky Murdock)
(flashback cameo)
villain
  [twin sister of Killer Murdoch] Marvel 4
The Scarlet Scarab (Dr. Abdul Faoul)
(flashback cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: M Egyptian ultra-nationalist; Egyptian classical religion
[led Sons of the Scarab to oust British, Nazis from Egypt] Marvel 4
Lord Crichton
(mentioned)
supporting character
  [Spitfire's late husband] Marvel 1