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:
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 (Steve Rogers) (lead character)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
Edwin Jarvis	Anglican	The Avengers (staff)		669
Union Jack (Montgomery Falsworth)		Freedom's Five; The Invaders		37
Union Jack (Joey Chapman)		Knights of Pendragon; The Invaders		75
Spitfire (Jacqueline Falsworth)		MI-13; The Hellfire Club...  The Invaders; V-Battalion		127
Bernie Rosenthal	Jewish	[Captain America's former girlfriend, fiance]		93
Baron Blood (John Falsworth) (details)  appears, but is disguised	Sect of Chasidm; Nazi	Mys-Tech; Super-Axis		33
Kenneth Crichton	vampire	[Spitfire's son; Union Jack's nephew; art student]		5
Inspector Sweeney		[investigated murders Baron Blood committed]		2
Hotchkins		[1st app: Captain America (vol. 1) #253 (Jan. 1981)]		1
Jenny		[Ken Crichton's girlfriend]		2
The Sub-Mariner (Namor) (flashback cameo)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  human; Illuminati; The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Cabal; The Defenders; The Invaders; The Order; X-Men		1,864
Bucky (Bucky Barnes) (flashback cameo)	Protestant (nominal)	Kid Commandos; Liberty Legion...  The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Invaders; The Young Allies		395
Adolf Hitler (flashback cameo)	Nazi	[1st app: Uma Kaeru (1935)]	Shochiku Kinema	1,593
Human Torch (Jim Hammond) (flashback cameo)	N.A.	Heroes for Hire; Penance Council...  The All-Winners Squad; The Invaders; V-Battalion; West Coast Avengers		497
Toro (Thomas Raymond) (flashback cameo)		Kid Commandos; The All-Winners Squad...  The Invaders; The Young Allies		311
Agent Axis (Hiroyuki Kanegawa, Aldo Malvagio, Berthold Volker) (flashback cameo)	Shinto / Nazi / Aryan supremacist / Italian sadist	Axis Mundi [changed to Pterorist by necromancer Jonas Eckhardt]		10
Blue Bullet (Professor Johann Goldstein) (flashback cameo)	Jewish	[1st app: The Invaders (vol. 1) #11 (Dec. 1976)]		5
Warrior Woman (Frieda Ratsel) (flashback cameo)	Nazi	Axis Mundi; Super-Axis		28
Master Man (Wilhelm Lohmer) (flashback cameo)	Nazi; Bundist	Super-Axis		60
The Face (Colonel Eisen) (flashback cameo)	Nazi	[1st app: The Invaders (vol. 1) #11 (Dec. 1976)]		3
Asbestos Lady (Vicky Murdock) (flashback cameo)		[twin sister of Killer Murdoch]		4
The Scarlet Scarab (Dr. Abdul Faoul) (flashback cameo)	Egyptian ultra-nationalist; Egyptian classical religion	[led Sons of the Scarab to oust British, Nazis from Egypt]		4
Lord Crichton (mentioned)		[Spitfire's late husband]		1

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Captain America #253 (Jan. 1981) created 16 August 2012. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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