Captain America Vol 1 269

Captain America Vol 1 #269 Published May, 1982 Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter Cover Artist Mike Zeck John Beatty "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste!" Writer J.M. DeMatteis Penciler Mike Zeck Inker John Beatty Mike Zeck Josef Rubinstein Colourist Bob Sharen Letterer Jim Novak Editor Jim Salicrup Lance Tooks Previous Issue Next Issue Captain America #268 Captain America #270

Appearing in "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste!"

Featured Characters:

•  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 

Supporting Characters:

•  Bernie Rosenthal 
•  Mike Farrell 
•  Josh Cooper 
•  Anna Kapplebaum 
•  Nick Fury 

Antagonists:

•  Mad Thinker 
  •  Awesome Android 

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

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Mutants
• Robots

Locations:

• United States of America
  • New York
    • New York City
      • Manhattan
        • Madison Square Garden
      • Brooklyn
        • Brooklyn Heights
          • 569 Leaman Place
  • New Hampshire
    • Ponder

Items:

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

Vehicles:

• Captain America's Motorcycle
  
  

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.

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Links and References

• The Grand Comics Database: Captain America #269 [1]

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