Captain Marvel Vol 1 25

	Published
	March, 1973
"A Taste of Madness!"
	Writer Mike Friedrich; Penciler Jim Starlin; Inker Chic Stone; Letterer John Duffy; Editor Roy Thomas;

Ya see, ya killed a man -- a good man! I got mad -- and when Rick Jones is mad -- so's -- Captain Marvel!

-- Rick Jones

Appearing in "A Taste of Madness!"

Featured Characters:

Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)

Supporting Characters:

Rick Jones
Lou-Ann Savannah (Controlled by Thanos)

Antagonists:

Aliens (Unnamed)
X-7
Masterlord (Thanos) (Shadow only)
Skragg (First appearance) (Impersonates Cop, Yon-Rogg, Zarek, an Aakon, and Rick Jones)
Super-Skrull (Impersonates Ronan the Accuser, Megaton, Hulk, Metazoid, Sub-Mariner, and Captain Marvel)

Other Characters:

Dr. Mynde (Referenced)
Benjamin Savannah (Death)
Lord (Yahweh) (Invoked)
NYPD (Mentioned)
Nuron (Recap)
Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Mentioned)
- The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Mentioned)
Skrull Empire (Mentioned)
Kree Empire (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Unidentified alien species
Kree
Robots (Main story and recap)
Skrulls
Dogs (Mentioned)
Humans
Titanians (Shadow only)
Aakon (Mentioned)

Locations:

Earthspace
- Solar System
  - Earth
    - United States
      - New York
        New York City
        Manhattan
        Savannah's Apartment
        
        Run-down office (Destruction)
  - Saturn
    - Titan
  - Sun (Mentioned)
Negative Zone

Items:

Nega-Bands
Captain Marvel's Suit
Slave Discs (Behind the scenes)
Mento-Probe Helmet (First appearance)

Synopsis for "A Taste of Madness!"

In an elaborate scheme of the Skrulls and their mysterious Masterlord, Super-Skrull and Kl'rt, Rick Jones is framed for the murder of Dr. Benjamin Savannah and brought to a run-down police precinct. Using Super-Skrulls invisibility as well as other Skrull technology, Mar-Vell and Rick are led to believe that many of his long-time friends and foes have returned and are attacking him. Rick and Mar-Vell identify the ruse, and Mar-Vell attacks the Skrulls. The building collapses in the battle and the Skrulls escape. To be continued...

Solicit Synopsis

Take it from us — The start of a world-shattering new storyline, destined to make C.M. one of the most-talked-about titles in comic-book history!

Notes

This is the first issue of Captain Marvel by artist Jim Starlin. Starlin will draw and also plot a great deal of this classic story arc now known as The Thanos War (Captain Marvel #25 through 33).

This issue contains a letters page, Mail It To Mar-Vell. Letters are pubished from Larry Ross, Brian Earl Brown, and Rick Lawler.

Links and References

http://comics.org/details.lasso?id=26021

Footnotes

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