Captain America Annual #8 [Direct]

(1986)

Tess-One (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain America / comic story / 40 pages (report information)

Script

Mark Gruenwald (credited)

Pencils

Mike Zeck (credited)

Inks

John Beatty (credited) (pages 1-31); Joe Rubinstein (credited as Josef Rubinstein) (pages 32-40; credited on the last page of the story)

Colors

Glynis Oliver (credited)

Letters

Jim Novak (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Richie's Bar, twenty miles north of Salem Center, New York.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Dr. Abraham Erskine (flashback); Robert Frank Jr.; Overrider [Richard Rennselaer] (introduction); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (flashback); Tess-One (introduction); Wolverine [Logan]; Arnie; Billy; Henry; Officer Gannon; Reggie; Able Baker; Johnny Rennselaer; Daniel Schumann (flashback); Gary Naslund; General Landon

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Determined to end the threat of nuclear war, Overrider seizes control of Tess-One, a robot designed by the US government to eliminate super-soldiers. Wolverine and Captain America both intervene.

Reprints

• in Captain America (Condor, 1988 series) #2
• in Best of Wolverine (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 (2004)
• in Wolverine Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 (2009)
• in Hasbro / Captain America Annual (Marvel, 2010 series) #8 (April 2010) [edited down from 40 pages to 25 pages]
• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #13 - Justice Is Served (2017)