Captain America (vol. 1) #236 (Aug. 1979):
“Death Dive!”
by Roger McKenzie, Michael Fleisher, Sal Buscema, Don Perlin

Captain America (vol. 1) #236

Title: “Death Dive!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Aug. 1979

Publisher:
Written by: Roger McKenzie, Michael Fleisher
Art by: Sal Buscema, Don Perlin

18 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.
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (lead character)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
Doctor Faustus (Johann Fennhoff)	Nazi / Freudian	National Force (founder); The Corporation [led own gang]		61
Daredevil (Matt Murdock)	Catholic	Marvel Knights; Weapon X (Exiles)		1,801
Peggy Carter		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers (staff) [Captain America's WWII-era girlfriend; Agent 13's sister]		72
The Grand Director (William Burnside) (details)  William Burnside appears as "the Grand Director" in this story. In a flashback he is seen as the 1950s Captain America.	idolizes Captain America	National Force [taught history]		13
National Force	neo-fascists; white supremacists; Nazi	[terrorist]		73
The Statue of Liberty (cover & 2-panel cameo, pg. 17, panels 2, 7)  Quote: "--and the sleek craft goes roaring gently skyward past the ever-serene face of the Statue of Liberty. Only then, does the living symbol of liberty [i.e., Captain America] feel the tension of the past week leave his weary muscles."	N.A.	[gave powers to Miss America in dream]		2
Bucky (Jack Monroe) (3-panel cameo, pg. 10, panels 2-3, 6)  flashback		Secret Defenders [sidekick of 1950s Captain America]		131
Agent 13 (Sharon Carter) (2-panel cameo, pg. 11, panels 2, 5)  flashback	Christian (denomination unknown)	Femme Force; S.H.I.E.L.D.		262
Wilson (2-panel cameo, pg. 7-8)		black [watched Daredevil crash land a small plane]		1
thugs (1-panel cameo, pg. 1, panel 5)  Black thugs working for Harlem crime boss Morgan are seen in flashback confronting National Force, with Cap in middle.; flashback		[occupation]		100
Morgan (1-panel cameo, pg. 11, panel 5)  flashback		[leader of own crime organization based in Harlem]		28
Bucky (Bucky Barnes) (someone disguised or dressed as, pg. 10, panels 2-3, 6)  Jack Monroe is seen in a flashback, dressed in the costume of the original Bucky and using the Bucky identity.	Protestant (nominal)	Kid Commandos; Liberty Legion...  The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Invaders; The Young Allies		395
God (mentioned, pg. 5, panel 5)  Daredevil (thinking): "There it goes! I've thrown him [Captain America] my billy club! I just pray to God he catches it-- and uses it like I've told him to!"	God	[1st app: Old Testament (1402 B.C.)]	various	313
Adolf Hitler (mentioned, pg. 14, panel 1)  And then suddenly, in a whoosh of flame and an instantaneous flash of incandescent light, the dirigible's catwalk becomes a smoking pyre for a deranged Fuehrer's twisted dreams... It was not the 'something' Faustus expected."	Nazi	[1st app: Uma Kaeru (1935)]	Shochiku Kinema	1,593
Joe McCarthy (mentioned, pg. 10, panel 1)  Dr. Faustus: "But surely you've read about the so-called Captain America of the 1950's... that right-wing zealot who had assumed the good Captan's very persona during the McCarthy era... and who was soundly defeated by the original Avenger in Miami some months ago."	Catholic	[U.S. Senator]		72
The Corporation (mentioned, pg. 10, panels 3-4)  Dr. Faustus: "Unfortunately for them [Burnside, Jack Monroe], that facility was one of many front companies for the criminal Corporation! And the hospital administrator was none other than myself! The Corporation, you see, had used its then-considerable clout to have me released from prison... Those fools in the Corporation thought..."		[company; crime syndicate]		42
The Avengers (mentioned, pg. 10, 12, 17)  (pg. 10) Dr. Faustus: "...surely you've read about the so-called Captain America of the 1950's... who had assumed the... Captain's very persona... and who was soundly defeated by the original Avenger... some months ago." (pg. 12) narration "Even as Dr. Faustus gloats, however, a sleek Quin-Jet is soaring skywards from Avengers Mansion..." [more]		[1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		100

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