Marvels Project Vol 1 4

Marvels Project #4
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Art by: Steve Epting, Gerald Parel and Steve McNiven
Alternate Covers
1 - Textless 2 - McNiven Variant 3 - McNiven Variant Textless 4 - Parel Variant
Art by: Steve Epting
Art by: Steve McNiven
Art by: Steve McNiven
Art by: Gerald Parel
Release Date	December 3, 2009
Cover Date	February, 2010
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Joe Quesada
Rating	T+ (13 and up)
Original Price	$3.99
Pages	32

1st story
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Ed Brubaker
Penciler(s)	Steve Epting
Inker(s)	Steve Epting
Colorist(s)	Dave Stewart
Letterer(s)	Chris Eliopoulos
Editor(s)	Lauren Sankovitch Tom Brevoort

 My name's John Steele...I kill Nazis. 

—John Steele

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

• ⏴ Angel (Thomas Halloway) ⏵
• ⏴ John Steele ⏵

Supporting Characters:

• ⏴ Ferret (Leslie Lenrow) (Death)
• United States Army (Main story and flashback)
  • Project Rebirth (Main story and flashback)
    • Steven Rogers (Only in flashback)
    • ⏴ General Phillips ⏵ (Appears in flashback)
    • Dr. Abraham Erskine (Main story and flashback)
  • ⏴ Nick Fury ⏵
  • ⏴ Red Hargrove ⏵
  • ⏴ Lt. Sam Sawyer ⏵
  • Sky-Devils

Antagonists:

• Nazis
  • Gestapo
    • Heinz Kruger / "Frederick Clemson" (See chronology)
  • Fifth Column
    • ⏴ Major Kerfoot / "Professor Hamilton" ⏵
    • An unnamed agent ⏵ (First appearance)
  • Wehrmacht

Other Characters:

• U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mentioned)
• ⏴ Nosie (Last appearance)
• God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
• Joseph Rogers (Referenced) (Deceased)
• Sarah Rogers (Only in flashback)
• Adolf Hitler (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Only in flashback)
• FDNY
• President Roosevelt (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
• Elise Kruger (Referenced)
• Heinz Kruger's unnamed children (Referenced)

Races and Species:

• Humans (Main story and flashback)

Locations:

• Earth (Main story and flashback)
  • United States of America (Main story and flashback)
    • New York (Main story and flashback)
      • New York City (Main story and flashback)
        • Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
          • Uptown
            • Major Kerfoot's Apartment
          • Heinz Kruger's Safe-House (First appearance)
          • Lower East Side (Only in flashback)
            • Steve Rogers' Apartment (Only in flashback)
          • Greenwich Village
            • The Ferret Confidential Investigations (Destruction)
          • Midtown
            • Times Square
    • Washington, D.C. (Main story and flashback)
      • Project Rebirth Training Center (Only in flashback)
      • Project Rebirth Facility
  • Poland (Referenced)
  • France
  • Germany (Mentioned)
• Hell (Invoked)

Items:

• Super-Soldier Formula (Mentioned)

Vehicles:

• U-boats (Mentioned)
• Vita-Ray Chamber

Events:

• World War II (Main story and flashback)

Synopsis for 1st story

• Synopsis not yet written

Solicit Synopsis

Project Rebirth begins! As 98 pound weakling Steve Rogers finally enters the picture, Nazi spies move in the shadows onto US soil...and the Angel comes close to finding the man who's murdering masked heroes.

Notes

• Though the Ferret is apparently found dead in this issue set in 1940, he turns up alive and well in 1941 (though without Nosey) in Marvel Mystery Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1.

Chronology Notes

Characters in this story also appear in other stories between this issue. The affected characters are:
Heinz Kruger

• ⏴ Pag. 1-10
• Flashback Pag. 17
• Pag. 21, Panel 3 ⏵
• ⏴ Pag. 21, Panel 4 - Pag. 22 ⏵

Steven Rogers

• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 6, Panel 5 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 7, Panel 1 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 7, Panel 2 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 7, Panel 3 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 7, Panel 4 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 7, Panel 5 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 8, Panels 1-3 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 8, Panel 4 - Pag. 9, Panel 2 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 9, Panels 3-5 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 10, Panels 1-3 ⏵

Sarah Rogers

• Flashback Pag. 7, Panel 1 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 7, Panel 4 ⏵

General Phillips

• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 8, Panel 4 - Pag. 9, Panel 2 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 9, Panels 3-5 ⏵
• ⏴ Flashback Pag. 17, Panels 3-4 ⏵

See Also

• 7 image(s) from Marvels Project Vol 1 4
• 1 reprint(s) of Marvels Project Vol 1 4

Links and References

http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=13277