Captain America Vol 1 296

Captain America #296
Previous Issue	Captain America #295
Next Issue	Captain America #297
Cover Date	August, 1984
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Jim Shooter

1. "Things Fall Apart"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	J.M. DeMatteis
Penciler(s)	Paul Neary
Inker(s)	Sam de la Rosa
Letterer(s)	Diana Albers
Editor(s)	Mark Gruenwald

 I am evil's heart--not Baron Zemo! Not my father! 

—Sin

Appearing in "Things Fall Apart"

Featured Characters:

• Captain America (Steve Rogers)

Supporting Characters:

• Nomad (Jack Monroe)
• Falcon

Villains:

• Mother Superior
• Red Skull
• Helmut Zemo
• Sister Death
• Sister Agony
• Sister Pain
• Sister Dream

Other Characters:

• Horst (Death)
• Starfox
• ⏴ Wasp ⏵
• Arnie Roth

Locations:

• New York State
  • New York City
    • Manhattan
      • Harlem
    • Brooklyn Heights
      • 569 Leaman Place
        • Bernie Rosenthal's apartment
  • Skull-House

Items:

• Captain America's Shield

Vehicles:

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Synopsis for "Things Fall Apart"

The Sisters of Sin attack and capture Falcon atop a Harlem rooftop. Meanwhile, Starfox and Wasp find Bernie's apartment empty and a skull insignia burned into a wall. At Skull-House, Captain America and Nomad are shocked to find the Arnie Roth they had mistaken for Zemo to be yet another robot. A door opens, leading the pair to Horst's body, but as they examine it, a mirror reveals to Cap he's physically aged decades. Cap and Nomad enter a room decorated like a 1940's-era cabaret, filled with more Arnie robots and Sister Pleasure as a hostess. Nomad blames Sister Pleasure for brainwashing him into drugging Cap with a chemical that rapidly aged the Avenger. She vanishes, and the real Arnie appears on stage. Brainwashed into denouncing his sexuality, Arnie collapses from the strain of fighting his brainwashing. Mother Superior appears and reveals herself to be responsible for Cap's aging and torture and attacks Cap. As they fight Cap tries to reason with her but she poisons Cap anyway.

Solicit Synopsis

Trapped by an assortment of his most deadly enemies, Captain America must fight for the life and the sanity of his best friend, Arnie Roth! And that's no small feat — when you've got to contend with Baron Zemo, the Red Skull, and Mother Superior and her Sisters of Sin! Guest-stars the Falcon, the Wasp, and Starfox!

Notes

• This issue contains a letters page, American Grafitti: Letters are published from: Kevin Hall, Bill Ford, and Tripp Reade.

See Also

• 1 image(s) from Captain America Vol 1 296
• 1 reprint(s) of Captain America Vol 1 296

Links and References

• The Grand Comics Database: Captain America #296 [1]