Captain America Vol 1 169

Captain America Vol 1 #169
Previous Issue	Captain America #168
Next Issue	Captain America #170
Art by: Sal Buscema and John Costanza
Release Date	October 2, 1973
Cover Date	January, 1974
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Roy Thomas

1. "When a Legend Dies!"
Writer(s)	Steve Englehart Mike Friedrich
Penciler(s)	Sal Buscema
Inker(s)	Frank McLaughlin
Colorist(s)	Petra Goldberg
Letterer(s)	Gaspar Saladino Charlotte Jetter
Editor(s)	Roy Thomas

 .. If I'm going to be your partner, I have to be something more than a costumed athlete. 

—The Falcon

Appearing in "When a Legend Dies!"

Featured Characters:

•  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 
•  Falcon (Sam Wilson) 

Supporting Characters:

•  Sharon Carter 
• Leila Taylor

Antagonists:

• Slick (First appearance)
• Spats (First appearance)
• Secret Empire
  • Committee to Regain America's Principles (Only appearance)
    •  Quentin Harderman  (First full appearance)
  •  Tumbler (John Robert Keane) (Real name first revealed) (Death)
  • Moonstone (Lloyd Bloch)  (First appearance) (Cameo)

Other Characters:

• Black Panther (T'Challa)
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Peggy Carter (Mentioned) (Joins team)
  • Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
  • Agent 135
• Harry
• NYPD
• Red Skull (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• Doctor Faustus (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• Captain America (William Burnside) (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• New York City
  • S.H.I.E.L.D. Mid-Town Installation
  • Harlem
  • Broadway

Items:

• Captain America's Shield
• Captain America's Uniform

Vehicles:

• Black Panther's Trans-Atlantic Ship

Synopsis for "When a Legend Dies!"

• Synopsis not yet written

Notes

• Plot by Englehart, script (story pages) by Englehart pages 1-9 (issue pages 1-15) and Friedrich pages 10-19 (issue pages 16-32).

• Letters (story pages): Saladino (uncredited) page 1, Jetter pages 1-19.

• Tumbler's identity is revealed for the first time in this issue. The Tumbler was last seen in Tales of Suspense #83.

• This is the first full appearance of Quentin Harderman, although he was shown speaking to the Viper in Captain America #163.

• This issue features a letters page, Let's Rap With Cap. Letters are published from Carl Masterson, George Heidekat, Charles Hoffman, and Mr. and Mrs. J. MacDonald.

• This issue is reprinted in the trade paperback Secret Empire.

Trivia

Committee's name as it was presented in the issue.

• Committee to Regain America's Principles abbreviates to CRAP and originally the panel presenting its name lined up the first letters to be read like that. However Roy Thomas had it altered. The Committee's name is a reference to real-life Committee for the Re-Election of the President which was often mockingly abbreviated as CREEP.

See Also

• 4 image(s) from Captain America Vol 1 169
• 2 reprint(s) of Captain America Vol 1 169

Links and References

• The Grand Comics Database: Captain America #169 [1]

Footnotes

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