Luke Cage Vol 1 168

Part of the "Marvel Legacy" event Part of the "Caged!" story arc Alternate Covers: Textless Greene Connecting Variant Luke Cage Vol 1 #168 Published Released February, 2018 December 20, 2017 Issue Details Rating T+ (13 and up) Original Price $3.99 Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso Cover Artist Rahzzah Production Alan Fine Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada President Dan Buckley 1st story Writer David Walker Penciler Guillermo Sanna Bauza Inker Guillermo Sanna Bauza Colourist Miroslav Mrva Letterer Joe Sabino Editor Jake Thomas Mark Basso Previous Issue Next Issue Luke Cage #167 Luke Cage #169

Maintaining control of a prison and one jerkwater town is kicking my ass.

-- Ringmaster

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

• Luke Cage (Hypnotized by the Ringmaster) (Apparent death)

Supporting Characters:

• Gonzo Acosta (Real name first revealed) (Main story and flashback) (Hypnotized by the Ringmaster) (Apparent death)

Antagonists:

• Ringmaster (Maynard Tiboldt) (Main story and flashback)
• Ringmaster's henchmen (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• A.I.M. (Only in flashback)
• Super-Adaptoid (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
• Mr. Lansky (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• Governor of Mississippi (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
• Thunderbolts (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
• Circus of Crime (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
• Numerous unnamed prison guards (Hypnotized by the Ringmaster) (Main story and flashback)
• Numerous unnamed inmates (Hypnotized by the Ringmaster)
• Dani Jones-Cage (Mentioned)
• Numerous unnamed Mississippians (Hypnotized by the Ringmaster)
• Ella Acosta (Hypnotized by the Ringmaster)
• Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr) (Mentioned)
• Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Mentioned)
• Janet Jackson (Mentioned) (Topical reference)

Races and Species:

• Humans (Main story and flashback)

Locations:

• Earth (Main story and flashback)
  • United States of America (Main story and flashback)
    • Mississippi (Main story and flashback)
      • Ringmaster’s prison hospital (Main story and flashback)
        • The mine (First appearance)
• Hell (Invoked)

Items:

• A.I.M. Uniforms (Only in flashback)
• Cosmic Cubes (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
• Ringmaster's Hat
  
  

Solicit Synopsis

CAGED Part 3

• Luke’s on the chain gang, but they’re not doing road work…

• What horrors await the prisoners in the dreaded mine?!

See Also

• 3 Image(s) from Luke Cage Vol 1 168

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