It was my second time meeting a living legend but this time I knew what it meant...that the world had already changed again. We just hadn't noticed yet. 
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Nazis
- Fifth Column
- ⏴ Major Albrecht Kerfoot ⏵ (Death)
- ⏴ Unnamed agent (Last appearance)
- Two unnamed Fifth Columnists (First appearance)
- Wehrmacht
- ⏴ Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) ⏵
- Fifth Column
- Projekt Nietzsche
- Professor Bruder
- Professor Burstein (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Project Rebirth (Only in recap)
- Dr. Abraham Erskine (Death in recap)
- ⏴ General Phillips ⏵ (Behind the scenes in main story and appears in recap)
- William Fairbairn (Only in recap)
- Colonel Rex Applegate (Only in recap)
- Gestapo (Only in recap)
- Heinz Kruger / "Frederick Clemson" (Death in recap)
- United States Government (Referenced)
- NYPD
- Ferret (Leslie Lenrow) (Referenced)
- Ms. Portnoy (Referenced)
- Daily Bugle
- Kellerman (a reporter) (First appearance)
- Adolf Hitler (Mentioned)
- French Resistance (Mentioned)
- ⏴ Lt. Sam Sawyer ⏵ (Behind the scenes)
- Noah Burstein ⏵ (Behind the scenes)
- President Roosevelt (Referenced)
- ⏴ Thin Man (Bruce Dickson) ⏵ (Cameo)
- ⏴ Hurricane (Mike Cury) ⏵ (Cameo)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Washington, D.C. (Main story and recap)
- Project Rebirth Training Center
- Project Rebirth Facility (Only in recap)
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Uptown
- Major Kerfoot's Apartment
- Uptown
- New York Docks
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Washington, D.C. (Main story and recap)
- France
- Germany
- Berlin
- Dr. Hans Bruder's Laboratory (First appearance)
- Berlin
- Switzerland (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
Items:
- Super-Soldier Serum (Only in recap)
- Vita-Ray Chamber (Only in recap)
- Vita Rays (Only in recap)
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield
Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
Marvel's ORIGIN story continues! Out of the ashes of the Project: Rebirth comes America's first Super-Soldier -- Captain America! Witness the first mission of Cap in New York...as Namor stalks the city streets and the Angel finds the hero killer he's been searching for. By the award-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting.
Notes
Chronology Notes[]
Characters in this story also appear in other stories between this issue. The affected characters are:
Captain America (Steve Rogers)