Appearing in "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste!"
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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 (First appearance)
- Albert Einstein (First appearance)
- William Shakespeare (First appearance)
- Plato (First appearance)
- Abraham Lincoln (First appearance)
- Confucius (First appearance)
- Socrates (First appearance)
- Machiavelli (First appearance)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (First appearance)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Behind the scenes)
- Sigmund Freud (Behind the scenes)
- Virginia Woolf (Behind the scenes)
- Leonardo da Vinci (Behind the scenes)
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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 S.H.I.E.L.D. for clean up, but there's no trace of the mysterious other biker.
Notes
- No letters page is published this issue.
- While the Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf and Leonardo da Vinci are not shown in this issue, it is revealed later (in Marvel Team-Up #129 for Dostoyevsky, and in New Warriors (Vol. 3) #5 for the others) that they were there.