Captain America #268 [Newsstand]

(April 1982)

A Cracker Jack Story (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Cracker Jack / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Peace On Earth-- Good Will To Man (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain America / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

J. M. DeMatteis (credited)

Pencils

Mike Zeck (credited)

Inks

John Beatty (credited)

Colors

Bob Sharen (credited)

Letters

Jim Novak (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The shadows and silence are broken by the squealing of a door...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bernie Rosenthal; Josh Cooper; Dum Dum Dugan; Runciter; The Defenders [Hellcat; Valkyrie; Gargoyle; Kyle Richmond [Nighthawk]]; August Masters (villain); Mindy Williams (also in flashback); Ursula Richards (also in flashback); Phillip Le Guin (also in flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (cameo flashback); Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo flashback); Bucky Barnes (cameo flashback); Falcon (cameo flashback); Morgan MacNeil Hardy (cameo flashback); Nazis (cameo flashback)

Synopsis

Cap gets a psychic distress signal from a woman he rescued from Morgan Hardy and enters the complex of August Masters who plans on using the powers of the world's foremost psychics to start World War III. Finding the Defenders already captured, Cap helps in their rescue and stays behind to cover their escape. Rather than watch everyone in the complex die from Masters' self destruct mechanism, Cap and the Defenders allow themselves to be taken prisoner once again.

Reprints

• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #126/127 (Mars 1982)
• in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #9
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #214 (5 octobre 1987)
• in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #5 (2010) [black and white]
• in Defenders Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #6 - The Six-Fingered Hand (2016)

Indexer Notes

Continued from The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #105 and in The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #106; Steve and Bernie go to see Raiders of the Lost Ark and Steve dismisses Indiana Jones as an amoral hero.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Daredevil's Longest Fight! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Daredevil; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Letters to the Living Legend / letters page / 0.8 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

Letters to the Living Legend

Genre

superhero

Indexer Notes

Letters from Chris Dyer, Gerald Bruns, Dave Schmidt, Jeff Bingham, Stanley Johnson, and Mark Waldman.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.2 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Total No. Copies Printed (net press run): Average no. of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 318,939. Single issue nearest to filing date: 332,734.