(July 1995)
Marvel,
1995 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 2.95 USD; 4.15 CAD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics
- Barcode
- 759606042616 00111
- Editing
- Gary Russell (reprint editor); Paul Neary (original editor); Bernie Jaye (original editor)
[no title indexed]
Captain Britain / cover / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Crazy Gang: Coco; Dormouse; Jack of Hearts; Mad Jim Jaspers; Queen of Hearts; Tweedledope
Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); Jackdaw (Otherworld) - Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Reprints
-
in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996) -
in Captain Britain by Alan Moore & Alan Davis Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) ([July] 2009) - in Captain Britain Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover.
Stick With It, It Gets Better
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Britain [Brian Braddock]
- Reprints
- in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Introduction by Alan Davis and a retrospective on his early comic work.
We Pick Up the Story...
Captain Britain / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Short publishing history of Captain Britain and a brief introduction to the events leading into the first story.
[The Return of Captain Britain]
Captain Britain / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Paul Neary; Dave Thorpe
- Pencils
- Alan Davis
- Inks
- Alan Davis
- Colors
- Helen Nally
- Letters
- Peri Godbold
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Go, Captain Britain, hero of another time.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Crazy Gang: Coco (first appearance, villain); Dormouse (first appearance, villain); Executioner (first appearance, villain); Jack of Hearts (first appearance, villain); Mad Jim Jaspers (first appearance, villain); Queen of Hearts (first appearance, villain); Tweedledope (first appearance, villain)
King Arthur (mainstream); Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); Jackdaw (Otherworld); Merlyn (Otherworld); Crazy Gang [Conjurors (first appearance, villain); Jester (first appearance, villain); The Knave (first appearance, villain)]; Paul - Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Synopsis
- Captain Britain is returned home to England by Merlyn with a new costume which has the powers of his scepter integrated into it. He and his elf sidekick, Jackdaw, arrive right in the middle of a bank robbery being perpetrated by the Crazy Gang. After the gang is rousted and escapes, Cap learns that the world he has been sent to is an alternate version of earth and not the one he remembers.
- Reprints
-
from Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #377 (September 1981) - in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
- in Captain Britain Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Throughout this series, Merlyn's name is alternately spelled the classic way as "Merlin" with no rhyme or reason for the difference in spelling. The earth that Cap is sent to in this story was officially dubbed Earth 238 in Marvel's pantheon of alternate realities in the story "Rough Justice" which appears in issue #4 of this series.
Outcasts
Captain Britain / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The cold anonymous city. The cold wet anonymous city at night.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); Jackdaw (Otherworld); The Junkheap That Walked like a Man (first appearance)
- Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Synopsis
- On an alternate version of earth, Captain Britain and Jackdaw are chased by police as superheroes have been outlawed and eradicated. They fall in with a group of homeless men who tell them some salient points about this new reality. Cap sends Jackdaw back to Merlyn to tell him they have been sent to the wrong world. A nearby rubbish heap produces a giant monster made of trash and Cap begins to battle it.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #378 (October 1981)
- in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
- in Captain Britain Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
The Junkheap That Walked like a Man!
Captain Britain / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fifteen minutes ago you were a pile of broken machinery...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Algernon (first appearance); Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); The Junkehap That Walked like a Man (death); Bert
- Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Synopsis
- Captain Britain battles a giant trash creature with an impressive arsenal. After the monster is incapacitated, Cap leads it back to the junkyard where it was created to find the source of its power. He travels down a long pipe dripping a strange fluid and encounters a large talking rodent.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #379 (November 1981)
- in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
- in Captain Britain Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
In Support of Darwin
Captain Britain / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Inside a storm sewer beneath a London that is not our own.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Algernon (supporting); Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); Dimples (Earth-9) (first appearance, guest); Jackdaw (Otherworld); Opal Luna Saturnyne (Earth-9) (first appearance, guest); Avant Guard (Earth-9) (first appearance, guests)
- Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Synopsis
- Cap finds himself in conversation with an intelligent, and very polite, giant rodent. Jackdaw returns from his mission to Merlyn but claims he couldn't find the sorcerer. Alerted that Cap may be coming too close to interfering with her current plans, Saturnyne sends the Avant Guard to stop him. They blast him with a ray that devolves him into a monkey.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #380 (December 1981)
- in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
- in Captain Britain Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Re-Birth
Captain Britain / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What about the little one?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); Dimples (Earth-9) (guest); Jackdaw (Otherworld); Opal Luna Saturnyne (Earth-9) (guest); Avant Guard (Earth-9) (guests); Status Crew (first appearance, villains); Wilcox-Smith (first appearance, villain)
- Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Synopsis
- Captain Britain has been devolved into a monkey and the Avant Guard leaves him behind as they take Jackdaw back to Saturnyne. She tells the elf that this reality is the most primitive of all of the alternate earths but she is about to use a mysterious liquid to give it a push in the right direction. Back in the junkyard pipe, Cap touches some of the liquid and returns to human form. As he is confronting Saturnyne, they are attacked by the Status Crew sent by the British home secretary.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #381 (January 1982)
- in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
- in Captain Britain Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Saturnynes name is sometimes spelled "Saturnine" in this series.
Against the Realm
Captain Britain / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He is supposed to be a patriot...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); Dimples (Earth-9) (guest); Jackdaw (Otherworld); Opal Luna Saturnyne (Earth-9) (guest); Avant Guard (Earth-9) (guests); Status Crew (villains)
- Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Synopsis
- Captain Britain and Saturnyne battle the Status Crew, England's chief security force. They scan Cap and learn that his power comes from his intense concentration and his greatest weakness is distraction. They blast him with a sonic beam to deprive him of his power. They then try to blast him with a bazooka but Jackdaw sacrifices himself to save Cap.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #382 (February 1982)
- in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
- in Captain Britain Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Faces of Britain!
Captain Britain / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The juice that fuels my power is.. concentration
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- King Arthur (mainstream); Autumn (first appearance); Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); Dimples (Earth-9) (guest); Jackdaw (Otherworld) (cameo); Merlyn (Otherworld) (cameo); Opal Luna Saturnyne (Earth-9) (guest); Status Crew (villains)
- Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Synopsis
- Captain Britain and Saturnyne continue to battle the Status Crew and they are finally able to win the fight by dousing them with the liquid Luna plans on using to push the citizenry of England into a new sense of enlightenment. The Crew stops fighting when they realize how barbaric they have become and what a terrible version of England they live in. Cap takes a poor little street girl flying.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #383 (March 1982)
- in Archivos X-Men (Planeta DeAgostini, 1995 series) #5 - Capitán Britania (Diciembre 1996)
- in Captain Britain Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Cover Gallery
Captain Britain / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (mainstream); Opal Luna Saturnyne (Earth-9); Status Crew
- Universe
- Marvel : Crooked World - Earth-238
- Reprints
- from Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #377 (September 1981), #382 (February 1982)
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Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Captain Britain -
1.
Stick With It, It Gets Better
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2.
We Pick Up the Story...
Captain Britain -
3.
[The Return of Captain Britain]
Captain Britain -
4.
Outcasts
Captain Britain -
5.
The Junkheap That Walked like a Man!
Captain Britain -
6.
In Support of Darwin
Captain Britain -
7.
Re-Birth
Captain Britain -
8.
Against the Realm
Captain Britain -
9.
Faces of Britain!
Captain Britain -
10.
Cover Gallery
Captain Britain
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