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Appearing in "Bad Moon Rising"[]

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains

  • None — Meggan's just confused

Other characters

Locations

  • London, March 18th, 1984

Items

  • Sidney Crumb's bottle of booze
  • Scaffolding

Vehicles

  • None

Synopsis for "Bad Moon Rising"[]

In the shadows cast by the light of the full moon, something savage lurks...

Appearing in "Tea and Sympathy"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters:

Villains

  • Blitzers

Other characters

  • Josie Scott, a teenager
  • Joan Scott, Josie's mum
  • Bob Scott, Josie's grandfather

Locations

  • A 'slum' in London

Items

  • Cups of tea

Vehicles

  • None

Synopsis for "Tea and Sympathy"[]

Captain Britain visits Mrs Scott to apologise to her for accidentally killing her son.

Appearing in "In All the Old Familiar Places"[]

Writers

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

  • Blitzers

Other characters:

Location:

Items:

  • A television

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "In All the Old Familiar Places"[]

Captain Britain and Betsy Braddock are attacked by bounty hunters; Meggan watches television; Emma Collins bakes a walnut cream cake.

Appearing in "Pictures, Puzzles & Pawns"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Lots of characters from Captain Britain's history appear in flashbacks

Locations:

Items:

  • Slide projector

Vehicles:

  • Taxi

Synopsis for "Pictures, Puzzles & Pawns"[]

Captain Britain and Dai Thomas take separate trips down memory lane.

Appearing in "Law & Disorder"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations:

Items:

  • A "picture-box" (television)
  • An anonymous note wrapped around a half-brick and chucked through a window

Vehicles:

  • Securicash van
  • Taxi from Colin's Cars

Synopsis for "Law & Disorder"[]

The Crazy Gang have fallen on hard times, but things take a turn for the better when they find a new leader.

Appearing in "Flotsam and Jetsam"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Car driver
  • José, Jools, Simon, Peter and Vivian (henchmen)
  • Sidney Crumb

Location:

  • Vixen's den

Items:

  • CCTV

Vehicles:

  • Car

Synopsis for "Flotsam and Jetsam"[]

Slaymaster brings Vixen a gift and tries on Captain Britain's suit.

Appearing in "Sid's Story"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

  • None — Sidney's just sick

Other characters:

Location:

  • A wet night in London

Items:

  • A football

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Sid's Story"[]

Captain Britain and Sidney Crumb both have horrendously bad days, and the Technet think that they've found what they're looking for.

Appearing in "Double Game"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations:

Items:

  • Gatecrasher's wrist blaster

Vehicles:

  • Surveillance van

Synopsis for "Double Game"[]

Captain Britain and Kaptain Briton fight each other. The loser is removed by Technet.

Appearing in "A Long Way from Home"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Blitzers, back victorious from the Antarctic strife zone

Locations:

Items:

  • Pandora's box

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "A Long Way from Home"[]

Betsy Braddock defends herself using her psychic powers, while her brother sleeps with the wrong Saturnyne.

Appearing in "Things Fall Apart"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations:

Items:

  • Silver polish

Vehicles:

  • Van containing children

Synopsis for "Things Fall Apart"[]

Mastermind projects a solid light hologram of a butler called Jeeves; Captain UK is introduced to the Cherubim; Meggan flies in the moonlight; Captain Britain drinks a bottle of beer on the roof of his manor.

Appearing in "Childhood's End"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations:

Items:

  • Whisky decanter

Vehicles:

  • Van containing children

Synopsis for "Childhood's End"[]

Meggan frees the Cherub Whirlwind from captivity, and grows up.

Appearing in "Winds of Change"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations:

Items:

  • Television
  • Telephone

Vehicles:

  • Second van full of children

Synopsis for "Winds of Change"[]

Betsy gives sanctuary to the children of Jasper's warp, and Brian receives a phone call from his brother.

Appearing in "African Nightmare"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations:

  • Mbangawi state, Africa

Items:

  • Telephone

Vehicles:

  • Aeroplane

Synopsis for "African Nightmare"[]

Brian and Meggan discover some extremely disturbing things about Brian's brother Jamie.

Appearing in "The House of Baba Yaga"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

  • Baba Yaga

Other characters:

  • Wolves

Locations:

  • Russia

Items:

  • Skull on a stick
  • Knife

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "The House of Baba Yaga"[]

Meggan and Brian's world tour takes them to Russia, where Meggan runs with wolves and gets in touch with her roots.

Appearing in "Alarms and Excursions"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

  • None

Other characters:

Locations:

  • Mainly fourteenth-century Peru

Items:

  • Lots of gold artefacts

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Alarms and Excursions"[]

The Special Executive hatch a plot to alter history and get Fascination to join their ranks early.

Appearing in "It's Hard to Be a Hero"[]

Writer

Artist

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations:

Items:

  • Boulder

Vehicles:

  • Car

Synopsis for "It's Hard to Be a Hero"[]

Betsy fights Vixen and Slaymaster while Brian and Meggan go swimming.

Appearing in "Should Auld Acquaintance..."[]

Writer

Pencils

Inks

Colourist

Letterer

Featured characters

Supporting characters

Villains:

  • Shoulders McGill
  • Glittering scythes of sweet release

Other characters:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Car

Synopsis for "Should Auld Acquaintance..."[]

Captain Britain and his chums have themselves a merry little Christmas.

Notes[]

  • Because of a publishing quirk, Captain Britain Vol 1 1 contains stories that were published in serial form after the stories in Captain Britain Vol 1 2.
  • Also contains an introduction by Chris Claremont and an 'outroduction' by Ian Rimmer.


Trivia[]

The stories in this book were originally printed in Mighty World of Marvel and Captain Britain vol 2.


Recommended reading[]

Captain Britain (trade paperback) Vol 1 2.

Links and references[]

Those who wish to purchase this collection should check retail or auction websites such as Amazon or eBay.

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