Captain America #425 [Foil Embossed Newsstand Edition]

(March 1994)

Fighting Chance Part One Super Patriot Games (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain America / comic story / 31 pages (report information)

Script

Mark Gruenwald

Pencils

Dave Hoover

Inks

Danny Bulanadi

Colors

George Roussos

Letters

Joe Rosen

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Dr. Kincaid; Diamondback; The Avengers [Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Vision]; Tinkerer; Super-Patriot [Mike Farrell] (introduction); Dead Ringer [Lou Dexter, also as Porcupine, Killgrave the Purple Man, Mirage] (introduction); Masters of Evil [Baron Zemo [Heinrich Zemo]; Executioner; Black Knight [Nathan Garret]; Melter]

Synopsis

The new Super Patriot gets a Cap shield from the Tinkerer to complete his costume. Cap is told that the Super Soldier serum is breaking down in his body and he can either quit being a hero or continue his active lifestyle for a year before it kills him. Super Patriot dresses as Captain America and fights the Porcupine at a political function, injuring many bystanders and tarnishing Cap's reputation. Cap holds a press conference to explain that he was not responsible for the Porcupine debacle but is attacked by the original Master's of Evil who just happen to all be dead. When the bad guys turn out to be illusions, Cap looks even worse in front of his not-so-adoring public, especially as Super Patriot shows up to ferret out the "real" bad guy. With his health and his heroic status spiraling out of control, Cap tries to figure out what has gone wrong with his life.

Reprints

• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #20 - Fighting Chance (2023)

Indexer Notes

There is a two page segment where Cap stops a kid stealing comic books and there is a brief discussion of the state of collecting in the comic book industry and the fact that violent vigilante heroes are the most popular (this was near the apex of the speculator boom of the 1990s).

Captain America's Brooklyn Heights Headquarters (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain America / character profile / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Eliot R. Brown (signed)

Inks

Eliot R. Brown (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Reprints

• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #20 - Fighting Chance (2023)

Indexer Notes

A cross section and floor plan of Cap's headquarters.

[Cap versus Red Skull] (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain America / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Dave Hoover (signed)

Inks

Dave Hoover (signed)

Colors

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback; Red Skull

Reprints

• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #20 - Fighting Chance (2023)

[Cap and Diamondback] (Table of Contents: 4)

Captain America / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Dave Hoover (signed)

Inks

Dave Hoover (signed)

Colors

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Diamondback

Reprints

• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #20 - Fighting Chance (2023)

[Diamondback] (Table of Contents: 5)

Diamondback / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Rik Levins (signed)

Inks

Danny Bulanadi (signed)

Colors

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Diamondback [Rachel Leighton]

Reprints

• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #20 - Fighting Chance (2023)

[Cap in front of the White House] (Table of Contents: 6)

Captain America / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Malcolm Davis (signed as mal)

Inks

Malcolm Davis (signed as mal)

Colors

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]

Reprints

• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #20 - Fighting Chance (2023)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Let's Rap with Cap [Captain America] / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers David Peattie, Dennis G. Parker, Ben Herman, Captain David Belt, Ian Watson and Olav Beemer.