Captain America (vol. 1) #188 (Aug. 1975):
“Druid-War”
by John Warner, Sal Buscema, Vince Colletta

Captain America (vol. 1) #188

Title: “Druid-War”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Aug. 1975

Publisher:
Written by: John Warner
Art by: Sal Buscema, Vince Colletta

23 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
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
Falcon (Sam Wilson)	Baptist	black; SHIELD Super-Agents...  The Avengers		531
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
Leila Taylor	black supremacist	black [Falcon's former girlfriend]		50
Peggy Carter		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff) [Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]		72
Alchemoid	Druidism	[1st app: Captain America (vol. 1) #187 (July 1975)]		3
Eric Koenig	Nazi (former)	S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos		35
Druid Men	Druidism	[robed acolytes following Dredmund Druid]		2
Bill		S.H.I.E.L.D. [investigated Sam Wilson; interviewed Leila Taylor]		1
Russ		S.H.I.E.L.D. [investigated Sam Wilson; interviewed Leila Taylor]		1
Jeff Cochren (5-panel cameo, pg. 10, panels 1-4, 6)		S.H.I.E.L.D. [was briefly SHIELD co-director]		4
Contessa Valentina (1-panel cameo, pg. 11, panel 1)		Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D.		146
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (hallucination, pg. 5, panel 7)  (pg. 1) narrative caption: "...after fighting the insidious Red Skull to a standstill... during which time he learned that the Falcon might be the Skull's most secret weapon... Captain America was suddenly wrenched away..." [other refs.] Falcon hallucinates, seeing Red Skull. Also, spoken & caption references, e.g. pages 1, 4, 12, 14.	Nazi	Axis Mundi; HYDRA...  The People's Militia; THEM [Captain America's arch-nemy]		298
Nick Fury (mentioned, pg. 10, 15)  (pg. 10) Gabe Jones: "Heyy, you're not Nick Fury..." Jeff Cochren: "The name's Cochren... field operations co-director... Even Colonel Fury can't be everywhere at once and we still find humans preferable to L.M.D.'s." Peggy Carter/Gabe Jones go to SHIELD Helicarrier to ask Nick Fury about SHIELD's treatment of Falcon (after revelation that Red Skull planned his origin). They find Co-Director Jeff Cochren instead.	secular	black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Howling Commandos; The Ultimates		1,898
Adolf Hitler (mentioned, pg. 3, panel 4)  Captain America (fighting Alchemoid): "Tell me--why is it that the pawns of every would-be conqueror from Hitler on down all sound like walking propaganda broadcasts?"	Nazi	[1st app: Uma Kaeru (1935)]	Shochiku Kinema	1,593
Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) (mentioned, pg. 12, panel 1)  Captain America: "I've been through a lot in the past few weeks. I shed one identity and found my real one. I've been attacked by the Serpent Squad and the Red Skull..." The Serpent Squad at the time Cap refers to consisted of Viper, The Eel, Princess Python, Cobra.	nihilist	Fangs (leader); HYDRA...  Serpent Society; Serpent Squad; The Inner Circle [former servant of Chthon]		153
Life Model Decoys (mentioned, pg. 10, panel 2)  Gabe Jones: "Heyy, you're not Nick Fury..." Jeff Cochren: "The name's Cochren... field operations co-director... Even Colonel Fury can't be everywhere at once and we still find humans preferable to L.M.D.'s."	N.A.	S.H.I.E.L.D. [android duplicates of people, usually VIPs]		24
Cobra (Klaus Voorhees) (mentioned, pg. 12, panel 1)  Captain America: "I've been through a lot in the past few weeks. I shed one identity and found my real one. I've been attacked by the Serpent Squad and the Red Skull..." The Serpent Squad at the time Cap refers to consisted of Viper, The Eel, Princess Python, Cobra.		Initiative; Scavengers...  Serpent Society (leader); Serpent Squad; Thunderbolts Army		87
Princess Python (Zelda DuBois) (mentioned, pg. 12, panel 1)  Captain America: "I've been through a lot in the past few weeks. I shed one identity and found my real one. I've been attacked by the Serpent Squad and the Red Skull..." The Serpent Squad at the time Cap refers to consisted of Viper, The Eel, Princess Python, Cobra.		Circus of Crime; Femizons...  Serpent Society; Serpent Squad		93
The Eel (Leopold Stryke) (mentioned, pg. 12, panel 1)  Captain America: "I've been through a lot in the past few weeks. I shed one identity and found my real one. I've been attacked by the Serpent Squad and the Red Skull..." The Serpent Squad at the time Cap refers to consisted of Viper, The Eel, Princess Python, Cobra.		Crime Wave; Emissaries of Evil (Egghead)...  Fellowship of Fear; Serpent Squad		30
Richard Lester (mentioned, pg. 13, panel 4)  Captain America (fighting the Druid Men, who are inept combatants): "Huh? Maybe I'm safer letting them try to kill me... I'm beginning to feel like a character in a Richard Lester film."	atheist	[directed Superman II, III; A Hard Day's Night]	ABC Weekend Television	30

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