Captain Britain Summer Special Vol 1 1

Captain Britain Special Vol 1 #1 Published June, 1980 Editor-in-Chief Dez Skinn Cover Artist Pablo Marcos "Night of the Hawk!" Writer Gary Friedrich Penciler John Buscema Inker Tom Palmer Letterer Irving Watanabe Editor Larry Lieber "Lonely Are the Hunted!" Writer Gary Friedrich Larry Lieber Penciler John Buscema Inker Fred Kida Letterer Irving Watanabe Editor Larry Lieber "Panic in Piccadilly!" Writer Gary Friedrich Penciler John Buscema Inker Tom Palmer Letterer Irving Watanabe Editor Larry Lieber "In the Shadow of the Hawk!" Writer Gary Friedrich Penciler Ron Wilson Inker Fred Kida Letterer Irving Watanabe Editor Larry Lieber "Only the Strong Survive!" Writer Gary Friedrich Penciler Ron Wilson Inker Fred Kida Letterer Irving Watanabe Editor Larry Lieber "The Abduction of King Arthur" Writer Stan Lee Penciler Joe Maneely Inker Joe Maneely Editor Stan Lee "... With One Beside Him" Writer Roy Thomas Penciler Gene Colan Inker Tom Palmer Letterer Herb Cooper Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue — Captain Britain Summer Special #2

Appearing in "Night of the Hawk!"

Featured Characters:

• Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

• Courtney Ross
• Mrs. Anderson

Antagonists:

• Lord Hawk (Professor Scott) (Main story and flashback)
• Toughs

Other Characters:

• James Braddock Sr. (Only in flashback)
• Lady Elizabeth Braddock (Only in flashback)
• unnamed munitions factory worker (Only in flashback) (Death)

Locations:

• United Kingdom
  • England
    • London

Items:

• Amulet of Right
• Captain Britain's Uniform
• Captain Britain's Quarterstaff

Vehicles:

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Synopsis for "Night of the Hawk!"

An act of kindness backfires when the deranged Professor Scott transforms a robot hunting hawk created for him as a gift by Brian Braddock into a deadly weapon.

Appearing in "Lonely Are the Hunted!"

Featured Characters:

• Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)

Antagonists:

• Lord Hawk (Professor Scott)

Other Characters:

• innocent bystanders
• a cab driver

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Human-Otherworlder Hybrids
• Robots

Locations:

• United Kingdom
  • England
    • London

Items:

• Amulet of Right
• Captain Britain's Uniform
• Captain Britain's Quarterstaff
  
  

Synopsis for "Lonely Are the Hunted!"

Captain Britain faces the insanity of Lord Hawk, who is determined to get revenge on a society he considers corrupt and depraved for killing his beloved pets..

Appearing in "Panic in Piccadilly!"

Featured Characters:

• Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)

Supporting Characters:

• Courtney Ross
• Policemen
  • Chief Inspector Dai Thomas

Antagonists:

• Lord Hawk (Professor Scott)

Other Characters:

• Bystanders
• Policemen

Locations:

• United Kingdom
  • England
    • London
      • Piccadilly
      • Scotland Yard

Items:

• Amulet of Right
• Captain Britain's Uniform
• Captain Britain's Quarterstaff

Vehicles:

• Police car
• Imperial bus
  
  

Synopsis for "Panic in Piccadilly!"

Lord Hawk is on the rampage and only Captain Britain can stop him. But first he must save his beloved Courtney Ross, injured in the robot hawk's attack on London.

Appearing in "In the Shadow of the Hawk!"

Featured Characters:

• Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)

Supporting Characters:

• James "Jamie" Braddock
• Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock
• Jacko Tanner
• Dr. MacKenzie

Antagonists:

• Lord Hawk (Professor Scott)

Other Characters:

• Policemen
  • Chief Inspector Dai Thomas
  • Unnamed superior
• Firemen
• Dai Thomas' wife (Mentioned)
• Military (Mentioned)

Locations:

• United Kingdom
  • England
    • London
      • Piccadilly Circus
      • Scotland Yard
• United States of America (Mentioned)

Items:

• Amulet of Right
• Captain Britain's Uniform
• Captain Britain's Quarterstaff

Vehicles:

• 
  
  
  

Synopsis for "In the Shadow of the Hawk!"

Captain Britain tackles Lord Hawk and appears to be winning, until a jealous Jacko Tanner attacks him while he's distracted, angered by Courtney Ross's attraction to the hero. The Captain, caught off guard, is grabbed by the robot hawk...

Appearing in "Only the Strong Survive!"

Featured Characters:

• Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)

Supporting Characters:

• London police/"Scotland Yard"
  • Inspector Dai Thomas
• S.T.R.I.K.E.
  • Commander Lance Hunter

Antagonists:

• Lord Hawk (Professor Scott)
• Jacko Tanner

Other Characters:

• Londoners

Locations:

• United Kingdom
  • England
    • London
  • Unnamed soccer stadium

Items:

• Amulet of Right
• Captain Britain's Uniform
• Captain Britain's Quarterstaff

Vehicles:

• 
  
  
  

Synopsis for "Only the Strong Survive!"

Things take a turn for the bizarre as Jacko Tanner seizes control of Lord Hawk's robot bird and almost kills Captain Britain before accidentally blowing the thing up. The dazed Captain is almost captured by Dai Thomas, but rescue is at hand.

Appearing in "The Abduction of King Arthur"

Featured Characters:

• Black Knight

Supporting Characters:

• King Arthur
• Guinevere (First appearance)
• Merlyn
• Knights of the Round Table
  • Lancelot
  • Galahad
  • Gawain (First appearance)
• Lady Rosamund

Antagonists:

• Morgan le Fay
• Mordred the Evil

Other Characters:

• Thunder

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Human-Fairy Hybrids

Locations:

• 
  

Items:

• Ebony Blade (First appearance)

Vehicles:

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Synopsis for "The Abduction of King Arthur"

King Arthur has been kidnapped in the night by the forces of Mordred and locked in one of the dungeons below the castle, unknown to all until morning. Unaware of Mordred's duplicity, everyone panics at the disappearance of the king. Mordred and Morgan le Fay use this opportunity to take control of the kingdom, despite the protests of Arthur's wife Queen Guinevere, but her protests are easily silenced. Unaware of Mordred's duplicity, the Knights of the Round Table sent out searching parties to try and find their missing king, and Mordred feigns a desire to find King Arthur as well.

In the castle, Mordred suggests that perhaps King Arthur deserted his people, and when Sir Percy calls him a liar, Percy is slapped across the face. Percy then goes to meet with Merlin who informs his secret agent that King Arthur is actually prisoner in the castle dungeon. Merlin then bestows upon the Percy a new weapon, the mystical Ebony Blade. Percy changes into the Black Knight, and as he exits Merlin's chambers he is spotted by Mordred's minions who attack him. The Black Knight quickly flees outside the castle walls and climbs down into the dungeon. There he battles more of Mordred's forces, taking one as a prisoner and forcing him to lead him to King Arthur.

Freeing King Arthur, both are attacked by more of Mordred's minions but the Black Knight and the King easily slay them. Using a secret passage way to get to the upper levels of the castle, King Arthur announces his return to his people and explains what happened. Mordred steps down from the throne returning it to Arthur. With no proof that Mordred was behind this attempt keeps silent about who was responsible. Changing back into his civilian guise, Sir Percy welcomes back the king and asks what he can do. When King Arthur assigns Percy to assist the ladies-in-waiting with their chores, Sir Percy gladly accepts the job, much to Lady Rosamund's chagrin.

Appearing in "... With One Beside Him"

Featured Characters:

• Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)

Supporting Characters:

• Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
• Aragorn
• Ancient One (yao)
• Victoria Bentley

Antagonists:

• Tiboro

Other Characters:

• Asmodeus (Charles Benton) (Only in flashback)
• Sons of Satannish
• Ymir (Vision)
• Surtur (Vision)
• Demons of Darkness (Mentioned)
• Satannish (Invoked)
• Faltine (Invoked)
• Munnopor (Invoked)
• Oshtur (Invoked)
• Hoggoth (Invoked)
• Raggadorr (Invoked)
• Vishanti (Invoked)

Locations:

• Himalayas
  • Ancient One's home
• England
  • Victoria Bentley's castle
• Sixth Dimension

Items:

• Cloak of Levitation
• Eye of Agamotto
• Book of the Vishanti
• Wondrous Wand of Tiboro
• Ebony Blade
• Spells
  • Vipers of Valtorr (Invoked)
  • Flames of the Faltine (Invoked)
  • Moons of Munnopor (Invoked)
  • Hosts of Hoggoth (Invoked)
  • Rings of Raggadorr (Invoked)

Vehicles:

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Synopsis for "... With One Beside Him"

Having learned that the remaining members of the Sons of Satannish were banished to the realm of Tiboro, and are the only possible means of learning how to reverse the spell cast by their masters, Dr. Strange travels to England to recruit his friend Victoria Bentley to help, however upon arriving there he gets into a brief battle with the Black Knight. Strange decides that the Knight would be better suited for this mission and so recruits him to travel to Tiboro's realm.

There the two heroes battle Tiboro, and it is a losing battle until the Black Knight is able to smash Tiboro's magic wand the source of the beings powers. Defeated, Tiboro allows Strange and the Knight to take the Sons of Satannish back with them to Earth's dimension. This story is continued in Avengers #61.

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