You don't know Jack - the Jack Monroe (Nomad) Appreciation 2019

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Captain America #295 Jul 1984
"The Centre Cannot Hold!"
As Captain America visits Dave Cox at the hospital, Baron Zemo and Mother Superior kidnap Arnie Roth.
Later Steve meets Bernie and Jack Monroe after a movie, where Bernie notices that Steve looks older.
Suddenly Steve receives a distressed call from Arnie Roth. Rushing to Arnie's apartment,
they find a skull burned into the wall and a robot Arnie. The robot announces that Arnie is Red Skull's captive.
Red Skull examines the recently deceased Horst as Cap and Nomad enter Skull-House.



The Sisters of Sin attack Cap and Nomad, but the heroes are able to outmaneuver the villains.
Spying Baron Zemo from afar, Cap savagely attacks only to discover he's actually a disguised Arnie.
Horrified, walls are closing in until it is too late. Meanwhile, Starfox and Wasp ring Bernie's doorbell,
unaware that Mother Superior is kidnapping her on the other side of the door.

Story by J.M. DeMatteis. Art by Paul Neary and Brett Breeding.

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Captain America #296 Aug 1984
"Things Fall Apart!"
The Sisters of Sin attack and capture Falcon atop a Harlem rooftop.
Meanwhile, Starfox and Wasp find Bernie's apartment empty and a skull insignia burned into a wall.
At Skull-House, Captain America and Nomad are shocked to find the Arnie Roth they had mistaken for Zemo to be yet another robot.
A door opens, leading the pair to Horst's body, but as they examine it, a mirror reveals to Cap he's physically aged decades.

Cap and Nomad enter a room decorated like a 1940's-era cabaret, filled with more Arnie robots and Sister Pleasure as a hostess.

Nomad blames Sister Pleasure for brainwashing him

into drugging Cap with a chemical that rapidly aged the Avenger.
She vanishes, and the real Arnie appears on stage. Brainwashed into denouncing his sexuality,
Arnie collapses from the strain of fighting his brainwashing. Mother Superior appears
and reveals herself to be responsible for Cap's aging and torture and attacks Cap.
As they fight Cap tries to reason with her but she poisons Cap anyway.

Story by J.M. DeMatteis. Art by Paul Neary and Sam DeLaRosa.

[Chris0013]

Just picked up the Captain America The Captain trade....Much as I like Jack...I forgot what a jerk he was to D-Man from the moment he met him.

[K7P5V]

Just picked up the Captain America The Captain trade....Much as I like Jack...I forgot what a jerk he was to D-Man from the moment he met him.

Agreed. It's no wonder Vagabond chose D-Man over Jack.

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Captain America #297 Sep 1984
"All My Sins Remembered!"
Mother Superior attacks Baron Zemo for intruding on her defeat of Captain America, but Red Skull interrupts them both;
he berates his daughter for using cheap deception to best Cap.
Meanwhile, as Cap finds himself alongside Bucky battling Baron Zemo at an Al air base in 1945,
the captive Bernie, Falcon and a catatonic Arnie seek to escape Skull-House's dungeon.

Mother Superior and Red Skull make Cap re-experience the worst day of his life,

but Mother Superior and Zemo are shocked when Cap prevents "Bucky's" death.

Zemo, who was controlling the reenactment via the Skull's "deus machina" device, blames Mother Superior for Cap's victory,
but the Skull reveals Cap's will wrested control from Zemo, allowing him the chance to change the past,
and is pleased that he can face Cap in their final battle with the heart free of the guilt of his greatest tragedy.
Unmasking, Cap demands the Skull reveal his plan
and the Skull unmasks in turn, revealing himself to be just as physically aged as Cap.

Story by J.M. DeMatteis. Art by Paul Neary and Roy Richardson.

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Captain America #298 Oct 1984
"Sturm Und Drang: The Life and Times of the Red Skull!"
The Red Skull knows that his life is nearing the end,

so he chooses to be hospitable to the aging Captain America for a few hours and tell him his life's story.
Cap's greatest foe reveals the details of his birth, his fateful first
encounter with Adolph Hitler and the birth of his daughter, Mother Superior.
Meanwhile, the Falcon, Nomad and Bernie

work on escaping from their dungeon inside Skull-House.

Story by J.M. DeMatteis. Art by Paul Neary and Roy Richardson.

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How many exnomads are there.

Steve
Ian
Jack

any others?

Two others...

Introduced in Captain America #261 (September 1981), the second Nomad was Edward Ferbel, a short-lived character who is given the Nomad costume and equipment by the Red Skull in an effort to discredit Captain America.
He is killed by an agent of the Skull, the Ameridroid, in Captain America #263 (November 1981).

After the events of the Onslaught Reborn mini-series, a version of Rikki Barnes, the female Bucky established in the Heroes Reborn Captain America series, now resides in the mainstream Marvel Universe, and has befriended the Young Avenger known as Patriot in the hopes of contacting the new Captain America (the original Bucky, now free of his Winter Soldier programming).

In September 2009, Rikki Barnes took on the identity of Nomad in the mini-series, Nomad: Girl Without A World.

Were the Rikki Barnes character to debut in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and then show up in whatever Disney+ series, it will not come as a surprise to me in the least.

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Marvel Team-Up #146 Oct 1984
"Hero Worship!"
Nomad and the web-slinger are chasing a young thief through the back alleys of Manhattan,

when they stumble across a recruiting event being hosted by the Taskmaster!
The super-villain with the photogenic reflexes is auditioning lackeys for his new client, the Black Abbott!

What a wonderful training opportunity for the new recruits!
However, Spider-Man and Nomad are not interested in playing along!

Can the duo corral the elusive Taskmaster?
First appearance of the Black Abbott. Note: The Taskmaster previously appeared in Avengers 223.

Script by Cary Burkett. Pencils by Greg LaRocque. Inks by Mike Esposito.

[Chris0013]

Two others...

Introduced in Captain America #261 (September 1981), the second Nomad was Edward Ferbel, a short-lived character who is given the Nomad costume and equipment by the Red Skull in an effort to discredit Captain America.
He is killed by an agent of the Skull, the Ameridroid, in Captain America #263 (November 1981).

After the events of the Onslaught Reborn mini-series, a version of Rikki Barnes, the female Bucky established in the Heroes Reborn Captain America series, now resides in the mainstream Marvel Universe, and has befriended the Young Avenger known as Patriot in the hopes of contacting the new Captain America (the original Bucky, now free of his Winter Soldier programming).

In September 2009, Rikki Barnes took on the identity of Nomad in the mini-series, Nomad: Girl Without A World.

Has she been heard from again?

Rikki just turned up in the Future Foundation book.

[Adam-X]

Which bodes ill for Jack if she's using the Nomad name... Because if someone else is using it, less of a chance of Jack coming back...

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Captain America #299 Nov 1984
"The Bunker"
Fierce battles are raging at Skull-House!
Baron Zemo and Mother Superior are savagely battling to the death;

While nearby Nomad, the Falcon and Bernie

fight for their lives against the Sisters of Sin,

and of course neither conflict is the main attraction!
Captain America and the Red Skull, the two aging warriors from
World War II, are set to rumble in the bunker under Skull-House!

Story by J.M. DeMatteis. Art by Paul Neary and Roy Richardson.

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Captain America #300 Dec 1984
"Das Ende!"
Jesse Black Crow has a vision of Captain America's recent troubles

and assumes his mystic crow form to fly to his aid.
As Red Skull and a grief-maddened Cap viciously battle one another in the Skull's bunker,
Dave Cox's condition worsens as Julie watches helplessly. Even though the Skull reveals the poison
in both of them has no antidote, Cap stops himself from delivering the killing strike, angering the Skull.
He begs Cap to kill him, but the Nazi's pleas are silenced as he finally succumbs to the poison's effects and dies in Cap's arms.
At that instant, Dave Cox regains consciousness and embraces his thankful family as Black Crow watches from the window.
Cap carries the Skull's body above ground and finds that Skull House's
destruction was yet another illusion, just as the poison overtakes him.
As Black Crow arrives and revives Cap with his mystic abilities,

Bernie, Falcon, Nomad and Arnie escape from Skull-House.

Nomad re-enters Skull-House and finds Cap still alive.
The aged Avenger carries the Skull's corpse outside,
remarking that the time to bury the past has finally come.

Plot by J.M. DeMatteis, script by Michael Ellis, pencils by Paul Neary, inks by Dennis Janke.