#269

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 inhabited 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 Thinker’s Machiavellian plan.

Reprinted in

• Capitaine America #128/129
• Capitan America & i Vendicatori #15
• The Thing Is Big Ben #1— Pages 1-6 only.
• The Thing Is Big Ben #2— Pages 7-12 only.
• The Thing Is Big Ben #3— Pages 13-18 only.
• The Thing Is Big Ben #4
• Captain America Epic Collection #10
• Marvel Masterworks: Captain America #15

Credits

Script

J. M. DeMatteis, Jim Shooter, Larry Hama

Pencils

Mike Zeck, Bill Willingham

Inks

John Beatty, Mike Zeck, Bill Willingham

Colours

Bob Sharen

Letters

Jim Novak

Editor

Jim Salicrup

Assistant editor

Lance Tooks

Editor-in-chief

Jim Shooter

Pages 22 and 23

Joe Rubinstein

Characters

• Captain America
• Honcho
• R.U. Reddy
• James McDonald
• Steve Rogers
• Winthrop Roan Jr.
• Wolf
• Marauder
• Nick Fury
• Mad Thinker
• Bernadette Rosenthal
• René Rodin

Other printings & variants

• Newsstand