Adventures of Captain America Vol 1 1

Adventures of Captain America Vol 1 #1 Published September, 1991 Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco Cover Artist Kevin Maguire Joe Rubinstein Production Joe Kaufman Mark Gruenwald Gregory Wright Suzanne Dell'Orto Publisher Stan Lee Michael Hobson President Terry Stewart "First Flight Of The Eagle" Writer Fabian Nicieza Penciler Kevin Maguire Inker Joe Rubinstein Tom Christopher Colourist Paul Mounts Letterer Richard Starkings Editor Mike Rockwitz Barry Dutter Previous Issue Next Issue — Adventures of Captain America #2

And zis young man ees ze first of ze new breed!

-- Dr. Abraham Erskine

Appearing in "First Flight Of The Eagle"

Featured Characters:

• Steve Rogers (Joins U.S. Army's Project: Rebirth)

Supporting Characters:

• United States Army
  • Project: Rebirth
    • Major Emil Gruber (First appearance)
    • Dr. Abraham Erskine (Death)
    • General Phillips
    • Lt. Cynthia Glass (First appearance)
    • Col. James Fletcher (First appearance)
    • Dr. Anderson (Death)
    • Dr. Jeffrey Finkenstein (First appearance)
    • Corporal Martins (Only appearance)
    • Dr. Keller (Only appearance)

Antagonists:

• Nazi Germany
  • "Frederick Clemson" (Death)
  • Red Skull (Johann Schmidt)
  • Agent X (First appearance)
  • Das Vernichtungs-Kommandos (First appearance)
    • Saurespritze (First appearance)
    • Blitzkrieg (First appearance)
    • Zahnmorder (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Bela Lugosi (Named only)
• Axis (On-screen)
  • Nazi Germany (On-screen)
    • Adolf Hitler (On-screen)
  • Fascist Italy (On-screen)
    • Benito Mussolini (On-screen)
• Eliot (Steve Rogers' friend) (First appearance)
• Patty (Steve Rogers' friend) (First appearance)
• U.S. Armed Forces (Named only)
• H.G. Wells (Mentioned)
• Gilmore Hodge (First appearance) (Leaves Project Rebirth)
• Joseph Rogers (Mentioned) (Deceased)
• Sarah Rogers (Mentioned) (Deceased)
• Harmon Furmintz (First appearance chronologically) (Leaves Project: Rebirth)
• Jack Windmere (Only appearance) (Leaves Project: Rebirth)
• U.S. Government (Mentioned)
• Jesse Owens (Mentioned)
• Albert Einstein (Mentioned)
• U.S. Interior Department (Mentioned)
  • Secretary Ickes (Mentioned)
• God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
• Project Rebirth (Earth-616)/Members#Weissmann (Earth-616) (Only appearance; corpse)

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Earth
  • United States of America
    • New York
      • New York City
        • Manhattan
          • Midtown
            • Times Square
          • Greenwich Village
            • Washington Square Park
            • U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Office
            • Steve Rogers' Apartment
    • New Jersey
      • Fort Dix Army Base
    • Washington, D.C.
      • Project Rebirth Training Center (First appearance)
      • Project Rebirth Laboratories
      • Project Rebirth Safehouse (Dr. Anderson's) (Only appearance)
      • Project Rebirth Safehouse (Dr. Weissmann's) (Only appearance)
    • Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts (Mentioned)
    • Rosemade, Los Angeles, California (Mentioned)
    • Virginia
      • Camp Lehigh
    • Maryland
      • Indianhead (First appearance)
        • Agent X's Safehouse (First appearance)
  • Germany
    • Berlin
      • Wehrmacht Headquarters (First appearance)
  • Poland (On-screen)
  • Ireland (Mentioned)
• Hell (Invoked)
• Heaven (Invoked)

Items:

• Super-Soldier Serum
• Vita-Rays
• Vita-Ray Chamber
• Captain America's Uniform
• Captain America's Shield (Drawing)

Vehicles:

• Steve Rogers' Motorcycle

Events:

• World War II
• World War I (Mentioned)
  
  

Synopsis for "First Flight Of The Eagle"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  

Continuity Notes

• Adventures of Captain America retells and expands Captain America's origin story and first adventures, including his first struggle against the Nazi officer Red Skull. Although this series has not been considered canonical due to its inconsistencies with Captain America's previously established history, plot elements from Adventures of Captain America have recently started being featured in Marvel Official Handbooks, such as Project Rebirth's entry in Captain America: America's Avenger #1 and Red Skull's entry in All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #4. However, some inconsistencies remains between this series' account and the classic Captain America's canon:
  • For example, Project Rebirth's Dr. Anderson is killed in this issue by Red Skull's agents, while in Giant-Size Invaders #1 he was shown as alive and helped forming the Invaders.
  • The mysterious Agent X-13 / Agent R, the only woman who worked at Project Rebirth, has been replaced by Lt. Cynthia Glass, also referenced in later stories, such as Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier #1–3 and Captain America (Vol. 4) #32. However, since Agent R's identity has never been revealed canonically, it could be presumed they actually are the same character.
  • Col. James Fletcher mentions Steve Rogers' parents, Joseph and Sarah, to be Irish immigrants, and that Joseph had died in 1920; this contradicts the later information that Steve was born on July 4, 1922, and the fact itself that he was a direct descendant of Revolutionary War Patriot with the same name.
• The Nazi spy who kills Dr. Erskine, Heinz Kruger, uses the fake identity of Frederick Clemson to enter inside Project Rebirth's facility. This is a reference to Captain America #255, where he was named Special Agent Clemson; the codename Frederick Clemson has been utilized again in Marvels Project #4.

See Also

• 11 Image(s) from Adventures of Captain America Vol 1 1

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