Appearing in "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Team America
- Dark Rider (First appearance)
Honcho (James McDonald)
(First appearance)
Wolf
(First appearance)
R.U. Reddy (Winthrop Roan, Jr.)
(First appearance)
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Alfred Knopfler
- Chief Hinkler
- Android Constructs of
- Mark Twain
- Albert Einstein
- William Shakespeare
- Plato (First appearance)
- Abraham Lincoln
- Confucius (First appearance)
- Socrates
- Machiavelli
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Synopsis for "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste!"
Steve Rogers eats brunch with his neighbors and talks with Bernie about their relationship. As Captain America, he travels to Madison Square Garden to participate in a motorcycle exhibition and is informed the arena has heightened security for this show. There are Nobel Prize winners in the audience and other Nobel Prize winners have been kidnapped lately. New motorcycle stunt performers Team America start the show and Cap joins in but a giant appears from a portal and kidnaps Nobel Prize recipient Alfred Knopfler. Cap and Team America follow, finding themselves in a rural town led by the Mad Thinker, populated by android duplicates of great thinkers from throughout history. Mad Thinker reveals he kidnapped the Nobel Prize winners so their duplicates can replace the historic figures, who have no new knowledge to offer. Capturing Team America, Thinker sets his sights on Cap's mind until a black-clad biker crashes in and frees Cap and Team America. Together they destroy Thinker's androids and call SHIELD for clean up, but there's no trace of the mysterious other biker.
Notes
- No letters page is published this issue.
See Also
Links and References
- The Grand Comics Database: Captain America #269 [1]
Footnotes
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- Comics
- 1982
- 1982, May
- Bronze-Age
- Captain America Vol 1
- Jim Shooter/Editor-in-Chief
- Michael Zeck/Cover Artist
- John Beatty/Cover Artist
- J.M. DeMatteis/Writer
- Michael Zeck/Penciler
- John Beatty/Inker
- Michael Zeck/Inker
- Josef Rubinstein/Inker
- Bob Sharen/Colourist
- Jim Novak/Letterer
- Jim Salicrup/Editor
- Lance Tooks/Editor
- Steven Rogers (Earth-616)/Quotes
- Steven Rogers (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Bernadette Rosenthal (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Michael Farrel (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Joshua Cooper (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Anna Kapplebaum (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Nicholas Fury (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Mad Thinker (Julius) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Awesome Android (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Thunderiders (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Marauder (Earth-616)/Appearances
- James McDonald (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Wolf (Thunderiders) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Winthrop Roan, Jr. (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Alfred Knopfler (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Mark Twain (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Samuel Clemens (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Albert Einstein (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Albert Einstein (Earth-616)/Mentions
- William Shakespeare (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- William Shakespeare (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Plato (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Plato (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Abraham Lincoln (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Abraham Lincoln (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Confucius (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Confucius (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Socrates (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Socrates (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Niccolo Machiavelli (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Niccolo Machiavelli (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Friedrich Nietzsche (Android) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Friedrich Nietzsche (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Homo sapiens/Appearances
- Homo superior/Appearances
- Androids/Appearances
- United States of America/Appearances
- New York (State)/Appearances
- New York City/Appearances
- Manhattan/Appearances
- Madison Square Garden/Appearances
- Brooklyn/Appearances
- Brooklyn Heights/Appearances
- 569 Leaman Place/Appearances
- New Hampshire (State)/Appearances
- Ponder/Appearances
- Captain America's Shield/Appearances
- Captain America's Uniform/Appearances
- Captain America's Motorcycle/Appearances