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Issue: X-Men Archives Featuring Captain Britain #1
Publication Date: July 1995
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Issues: #1 of 7 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 75960604261600111
Price: $4.15 CAD
$2.95 USD
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Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S. comic
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Limited Series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as Capitán Britania [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]
From Issue: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #377 published September 1981cover
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wraparound cover.
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Stick With It, It Gets Better

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as No lo dejes... ¡Mejora! [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Introduction by Alan Davis and a retrospective on his early comic work.
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We Pick Up the Story...

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as Aquí Tomamos la Historia... [Reprise on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Short publishing history of Captain Britain and a brief introduction to the events leading into the first story.
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The Return of Captain Britain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Crazy Gang [Conjurors (first appearance, villain); Jester (first appearance, villain); The Knave (first appearance, villain)]; Paul
First Line: Go, Captain Britain, hero of another time.
Synopsis: Captain Britain is returned home to England by Merlyn with a new costume which has the powers of his scepter integrated into it. He and his elf sidekick, Jackdaw, arrive right in the middle of a bank robbery being perpetrated by the Crazy Gang. After the gang is rousted and escapes, Cap learns that the world he has been sent to is an alternate version of earth and not the one he remembers.
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as El Regreso [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Issue: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #377 published September 1981
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Throughout this series, Merlyn's name is alternately spelled the classic way as "Merlin" with no rhyme or reason for the difference in spelling. The earth that Cap is sent to in this story was officially dubbed Earth 238 in Marvel's pantheon of alternate realities in the story "Rough Justice" which appears in issue #4 of this series.
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Outcasts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Junkheap That Walked like a Man (first appearance)
First Line: The cold anonymous city. The cold wet anonymous city at night.
Synopsis: On an alternate version of earth, Captain Britain and Jackdaw are chased by police as superheroes have been outlawed and eradicated. They fall in with a group of homeless men who tell them some salient points about this new reality. Cap sends Jackdaw back to Merlyn to tell him they have been sent to the wrong world. A nearby rubbish heap produces a giant monster made of trash and Cap begins to battle it.
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as Vagabundos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #378 published October 1981
was Outcasts [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
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The Junkheap That Walked like a Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Junkehap That Walked like a Man (death); Bert
First Line: Fifteen minutes ago you were a pile of broken machinery...
Synopsis: Captain Britain battles a giant trash creature with an impressive arsenal. After the monster is incapacitated, Cap leads it back to the junkyard where it was created to find the source of its power. He travels down a long pipe dripping a strange fluid and encounters a large talking rodent.
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as ¡... La Chatarra que Caminó como un Hombre! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #379 published November 1981
was The Junkheap That Walked Like a Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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In Support of Darwin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avant Guard (Earth-9) (first appearance, guests)
First Line: Inside a storm sewer beneath a London that is not our own.
Synopsis: Cap finds himself in conversation with an intelligent, and very polite, giant rodent. Jackdaw returns from his mission to Merlyn but claims he couldn't find the sorcerer. Alerted that Cap may be coming too close to interfering with her current plans, Saturnyne sends the Avant Guard to stop him. They blast him with a ray that devolves him into a monkey.
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as En Apoyo de Darwin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #380 published December 1981
was In Support of Darwin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Re-Birth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avant Guard (Earth-9) (guests); Status Crew (first appearance, villains); Wilcox-Smith (first appearance, villain)
First Line: What about the little one?
Synopsis: Captain Britain has been devolved into a monkey and the Avant Guard leaves him behind as they take Jackdaw back to Saturnyne. She tells the elf that this reality is the most primitive of all of the alternate earths but she is about to use a mysterious liquid to give it a push in the right direction. Back in the junkyard pipe, Cap touches some of the liquid and returns to human form. As he is confronting Saturnyne, they are attacked by the Status Crew sent by the British home secretary.
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as Renacimiento [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #381 published January 1982
was Re-Birth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Saturnynes name is sometimes spelled "Saturnine" in this series.
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Against the Realm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avant Guard (Earth-9) (guests); Status Crew (villains)
First Line: He is supposed to be a patriot...
Synopsis: Captain Britain and Saturnyne battle the Status Crew, England's chief security force. They scan Cap and learn that his power comes from his intense concentration and his greatest weakness is distraction. They blast him with a sonic beam to deprive him of his power. They then try to blast him with a bazooka but Jackdaw sacrifices himself to save Cap.
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as Contra el Reino [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #382 published February 1982
was Against the Realm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Faces of Britain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Status Crew (villains)
First Line: The juice that fuels my power is.. concentration
Synopsis: Captain Britain and Saturnyne continue to battle the Status Crew and they are finally able to win the fight by dousing them with the liquid Luna plans on using to push the citizenry of England into a new sense of enlightenment. The Crew stops fighting when they realize how barbaric they have become and what a terrible version of England they live in. Cap takes a poor little street girl flying.
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In Content Item: FlagArchivos X-Men #5 published December 1996
as Las Caras de Gran Bretaña [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #383 published March 1982
was Faces of Britain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Cover Gallery

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Status Crew
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From Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #377 published September 1981
was Flying Again..! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #382 published February 1982
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1

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