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Issue Details

Issue #269
Published May 1982
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Lance Tooks (Assistant Editor); Jim Salicrup (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)
Notes UPC 0714860245305

Cover Details - "Introducing: Team America!"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Team America [R.U. Reddy; Honcho; Wolf]; Mad Thinker's Android
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Zeck (signed)
Inks John Beatty (signed)
Letters Typeset

23 page Captain America story "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste!"

Characters FEATURE: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; GUESTS: Bernie Rosenthal; Team America (1st) [R.U. Reddy; Honcho; Wolf; Marauder]; VILLAINS: Mad Thinker; Mad Thinker's Android; Androids of Mark Twain; Albert Einstein; Abraham Lincoln; William Shakespeare; Plato; Confucius; Socrates; Machiavelli; Nietzsche; CAMEOS: Nick Fury; S.H.I.E.L.D.
Synopsis Cap is taking part in a charity motorcycle event with Team America when a giant monster appears and captures a nobel prize winner who is in the audience; Cap and Team America follow the monster through a transporter tube and find themselves in a quaint little town peopled by the world's greatest thinkers from the past; This is all part of the Mad Thinker's agenda to surround himself with suitable companions to stimulate his intellect but, when Cap finds the missing nobel members about to be turned into robots, he and Team America bring an end to the Thinkers machiavellian plan.
Genre superhero
Script J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils Mike Zeck
Inks John Beatty; Mike Zeck; Joe Rubinstein
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Jim Novak
Notes Team America next in Team America #1