Captain America #268 Peace On Earth--Good Will To Man
Cover Date: April, 1982
Kyle Richmond, Gargoyle, Valkyrie and Hellcat of the Defenders have been captured by August Masters and his minions who have been manipulating psychics for his own goals. Can Cap save the day? Or will August Master conquer all? August Masters has knocked ...
Issue Description
Kyle Richmond, Gargoyle, Valkyrie and Hellcat of the Defenders have been captured by August Masters and his minions who have been manipulating psychics for his own goals. Can Cap save the day? Or will August Master conquer all?
August Masters has knocked out the Defenders in his Rocky Mountain base. He wakes up Kyle Richmond, whom he had previously confronted when Masters was experimenting on Richmond’s old girlfriend, Mindy. Nighthawk and Mindy had destroyed Masters base then, but Masters came back later and gassed Richmond and the other Defenders. Masters explains that his previous explanation for the experiments on Mindy (and others) was just a cover story, and that he does not actually work for the government.
Steve Rogers, meanwhile, is enjoying a movie date with Bernie. She says she loves him, and he is startled; he’s not sure he’s ready for a major relationship, and leaves awkwardly. At home, he experiences an agonizing psychic message from Ursula Richards, one of the other psychics Masters has been experimenting with, and whom Steve met a little while ago in a scheme by Morgan MacNeil Hardy. Cap goes to Ursula’s apartment and finds she has been kidnapped, so he goes to SHIELD and has them run a trace on his memories of Ursula’s psychic communication to find a clue as to her whereabouts.
They see an image of a mountain, and Steve leaves to go help.
Meanwhile Masters tells Nighthawk more of his plan: he and other ex-secret agents are trying to start World War III, using the psychics like Mindy and Ursula to start a psychic war with the Soviets. However, Mindy is unstable, so Masters wants Nighthawk to calm her down, and threatens him with the lives of the other Defenders if he doesn’t help.
Steve is in disguise, and gets a local to help him find Masters’ mountain base. However the local is a plant, and some of Masters’ agents attack. Cap defeats them and breaks into the base, but Masters shows up and asks Cap to follow him.
Ursula and a boy psychic, Philip, realize Cap is there, and use their powers to wake up the Defenders. They break out and look for Cap. Masters tries to get Cap to join his misguidedly patriotic scheme, but of course Cap refuses and runs off, joining up with the Defenders. They release the captive psychics, but Masters tells Cap to get the others to give up, since he has a self-destruct sequence in the base that can kill them all. Cap agrees to submit, and the heroes and psychics are all made captive once again.
Nighthawk is angry over his perceived lack of ability to help, but Mindy uses her psychic powers to call for help from Dr. Strange.
The story continues in Defenders 106.
Captain America (1968)
- Publisher
- Marvel
Volume Description
Captain America is on his own at last, in the comic that started it all, the Super Soldier's story begins.
Continued from Tales of Suspense issue 99. Tales of Suspense was one of several horror-like anthologies that Marvel was publishing in the early 1960's, but just like its counterpart Tales To Astonish, after nearly one hundred issues the series changed its name, after it already went a completely new route featuring characters such as Iron Man and Captain America instead of horror stories. So it was that in 1968, the series became Captain America Volume 1 with its hundredth issue. Captain America ran on for three more decades much like its Incredible Hulk counterpart. The series concluded with issue 454, when the series was relaunched as Captain America vol. 2. After issue number 50 of Captain America vol. 5, that series returned to its original numbering started here in Volume 1, celebrating it's 600th issue.
This is the first solo Captain America series published by Marvel Comics, the previous series, Captain America Comics, had been published by Marvel’s predecessors Atlas and Timely respectively.
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