Captain America
#315
[Newsstand]
(March 1986)
Marvel,
1968 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 198?
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved By the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Barcode
- 0714860245303
- Editing
- Michael Higgins (assistant editor); Michael Carlin (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series) #315 [Direct].
There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Captain America / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Paul Neary (signed as PN)
- Inks
- Butch Guice (signed as JG)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Serpent Society’s finally got Captain America right where we want him!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Serpent Society [Diamondback; Cottonmouth; Death Adder; Rattler]
- Reprints
in 
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The Hard Sell
Captain America / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Mark Gruenwald (credited as Gruenwald)
- Pencils
- Paul Neary (credited as Neary) (breakdowns)
- Inks
- Dennis Janke (credited as Janke) (finishes)
- Colors
- Ken Feduniewicz (credited as Feduniewicz)
- Letters
- Diana Albers (credited as Albers)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Strange things don’t often happen at the Monmouth County Morgue.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Porcupine (villain, death); Modok (villain, dead); A.I.M. (villain); Serpent Society [Sidewinder; Black Mamba; Death Adder; Cottonmouth; Diamondback; Bushmaster; Cobra; Asp; Rattler; Anaconda; Princess Python] (villains); Ant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo flashback); Count Nefaria (cameo flashback); Unicorn (cameo flashback); Eel [Leopold Stryke] (cameo flashback); Plant Man (cameo flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (cameo flashback); The Defenders [Nighthawk; Dr. Strange; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Red Guardian [Tania Belinskaya]] (cameo flashback); Cyclops (cameo flashback); Iceman (cameo flashback); Nomad [Jack Monroe] (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- The Serpent Society captures the dead body of Modok for AIM. Porcupine is trying to sell his costume to get out of the super villain life but his only taker is Captain America. Cap pretends to be captured by Porcupine to flush out the Serpent Society and, during the ensuing battle, Porcupine falls on one of his own quills and dies.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Avengers Mansion; Serpent Citadel
in [no title indexed]
American Graffiti / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Andrew Lannen, Jon Thomas, Eric Cohen, Brian Nelson. Also includes a reproduction of the Serpent Societies Business Card.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["The Serpent Society’s finally got Captain America right where we want him!"]
Captain America -
1.
The Hard Sell
Captain America -
2.
[no title indexed]
American Graffiti -
3.
["Heh! Heh! Heh!"]
Bullpen Bulletins
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- ge.org.e
- Peter Croome
- Derek Reinhard
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