Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Luke Cage (Hypnotized by the Ringmaster) (Apparent death)
Supporting Characters:
- Gonzo Acosta (Name 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)
- Ringmaster’s prison hospital (Main story and flashback)
- Mississippi (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- * Cosmic Cubes (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Ringmaster's Hat
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
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?!