Marvel Team-Up (vol. 1) #129 (May 1983):
“...And Much to Ponder Before the Dawn...”
by J. M. DeMatteis, Kerry Gammill, Mike Esposito

Marvel Team-Up (vol. 1) #129

Title: “...And Much to Ponder Before the Dawn...”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 1983

Publisher:
Written by: J. M. DeMatteis
Art by: Kerry Gammill, Mike Esposito

37 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (lead character)	Protestant	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		10,664
Vision (lead character)	synthezoid; Catholic (temporary)	A-Next; Galactic Guardians...  Guardians of the Galaxy; The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles); Young Avengers		1,393
Alpha	N.A.	[robot]		1
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sorceress	A-Next; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Force Works; Lady Liberators; Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Ultimates		1,624
Confucius robot	Confucianism	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
Friedrich Nietzsche robot	Nietzschean	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
Nicola Machiavelli robot	Machiavellian	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
Plato robot	Platonism	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
Socrates robot	Greek philosophy	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
Fyodor Dostoevsky robot	Russian Orthodox	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
Albert Einstein robot	Jewish; Humanist; Ethical Culture	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		4
Abraham Lincoln robot	Baptist	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
Mark Twain robot	Presbyterian	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
William Shakespeare robot	Catholic/Anglican	Mad Thinker's intellectual robots		2
Andrew Pauncholito		[learned Spider-Man's secret identity; kept it secret]		3
Sheriff Frame		[sheriff]		1
Bob Rubens		[police]		1
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (flashback cameo)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
J. Jonah Jameson (cameo)	hates Spider-Man	[Peter Parker's boss; Spider-Man's denouncer]		1,719
S.H.I.E.L.D. (cameo)		[government agency; intelligence agency...]		1,188
The Mad Thinker (Dr. Jose Santini) (flashback cameo)		Triumvirate of Terror (leader)		108
R.U. Reddy (Winthrop Roan, Jr.) (flashback cameo)		Team America		17
Honcho (James McDonald) (flashback cameo)		Team America		16
Wolf (flashback cameo)		Team America		16
Wrench (Leonard Hebb) (flashback cameo)		Team America		6
Georgianna Hebb (flashback cameo)		Team America		26
The Marauder (flashback cameo)		Team America [collective embodiment of Team America]		16
Abraham Lincoln (robot copy of)	Baptist (raised)	[U.S. President]		355
Machiavelli (robot copy of)	Machiavellian	[1st app: Monna Vanna (1922)]		36
Confucius (robot copy of)	Confucianism (founder)	Asian [Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC]		23
Fyodor Dostoevsky (robot copy of)	Russian Orthodox	[famed novelist]		8
Albert Einstein (robot copy of)	Jewish; Humanist; Ethical Culture	[1st app: Captain America (vol. 1) #269 (May 1982)]		252
Mark Twain (robot copy of)	Presbyterian	[writer]		106
William Shakespeare (robot copy of)	Catholic/Anglican	[actor; poet...]		83
Socrates (robot copy of)	Greek philosophy	[philosopher]		20
Friedrich Nietzsche (robot copy of)	Nietzschean/pagan/atheist; raised Lutheran	[philosopher]		11
Plato (robot copy of)	Greek philosophy; Platonism	[philosopher; teacher]		58

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