Captain America (vol. 1) #240 (Dec. 1979):
“Gang Wars!”
by Paul Kupperberg, Alan Kupperberg, Don Perlin

Captain America (vol. 1) #240

Title: “Gang Wars!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1979

Publisher:
Written by: Paul Kupperberg, Alan Kupperberg
Art by: Alan Kupperberg, Don Perlin

21 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
Mafia (details, pg. 11, 13, 15-17)  Captain America: "Why? What's one old man to you?" Big Thunder: "He's nothin'. But I promised some guys in the mob that I could provide a place to stash anything they've got that's hot... and that building's made to order!" Captain America primarily faces off against a gang, but they have a contract with the mob. A few mobsters are seen on various pages.		[crime syndicate]		118
Bernie		The Coney Island Cruisers		1
Big Thunder		The Coney Island Cruisers (leader)		1
Bobo		The Coney Island Cruisers		1
Bruno		Mafia		1
Ernie		The Coney Island Cruisers		1
Mr. Fields		Mafia		1
Jacob Kirsch		[retired]		1
Weasel		The Coney Island Cruisers		1
Georgie		The Coney Island Cruisers		2
Cliff		The Coney Island Cruisers		1
The Coney Island Cruisers		[gang]		2
Duffy's Bar and Grill (pg. 4-7)		[bar; restaurant]		1
Duffy (business/store name, pg. 4, panel 2)  Pages 4-7 take place in Duffy's Bar and Grill. Name of this bar shown in panel 2 on page 4.		[business owner]		1
Nazis (mentioned, pg. 5, panels 2-3)  Captain America: "...I've fought your kind before... only back then, they spoke German and wore brown shirts!" Bobo: "Hey, you got me wrong, man-- I ain't no Nazi." Captain America: "I don't see much difference." Bobo: "Sez you, Fearless Fosdick!"	Nazi	[generic WWII Nazis]	, etc.	4,222
NYPD (mentioned, pg. 17, panel 4)  Captain America: "Let them run! I can hear the police sirens now! I thought the ruckus we raised would bring in the law! They won't get far... Their kind never do!""		[police department]		1,396
The Avengers (mentioned, pg. 4, panel 1)  Bobo: "Lemme get this straight-- Captain America suddenly came outta nowhere and creamed the three of 'em? Captain America... the Avenger?"		[1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		100
The Bowery Boys (mentioned, pg. 9, panel 1)  Coney Island Cruisers gang member: "He's like greased lightnin'!" Captain America: "'Greased lightnin'? Say, what's with you characters? Did you all escape from a Bowery Boys film festival?"		[1st app: Dead End (1935)]	Monogram Pictures	48
Mrs. Kirsch (mentioned, pg. 3, panel 4)  Jacob Kirsch (to Captain America): "...after my wife died, I stayed on alone. One by one, the other tenants have moved out when the landlord abandoned the place... Not that I blamed them. No head, no repairs... It hasn't been easy. But I have no money, no family... so I stayed. What else could I do?"		[wife of Jacob Kirsch (a man Captain America helped)]		1
Fearless Fosdick (mentioned, pg. 5, panel 3)  Captain America: "...I've fought your kind before... only back then, they spoke German and wore brown shirts!" Bobo: "Hey, you got me wrong, man-- I ain't no Nazi." Captain America: "I don't see much difference." Bobo: "Sez you, Fearless Fosdick!"		[long-running parody of Dick Tracy]		1

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