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Character history

Fawcett Comics

The super-strong Captain Nazi (real name Albrecht Krieger) was genetically altered by his scientist father, and developed into the "perfect specimen" in order to fight for Adolf Hitler and the Axis Powers during World War II. Nazi first appeared in Master Comics #21 (December 1941), in opposition to both Captain Marvel and Bulletman. During the second half of his battle with Marvel in Whiz Comics #25 (published the same month), Nazi attacks two innocent bystanders who happened to be fishing near the scene of the battle. One of them, an old man named Jacob Freeman, is killed, but the old man's teenage grandson, Freddy Freeman, is saved by Captain Marvel and becomes Captain Marvel, Jr. Hitler redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian... Master Comics was a monthly ongoing comic book anthology series, which was published by Fawcett Comics from March 1940 to April 1953. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Bulletman was a Fawcett Comics superhero created by Bill Parker in Nickel Comics, May, 1940. ... Captain Marvel Jr. ...

Junior, crippled in his Freddy Freeman form by the attack, continued to hold a vendetta against Nazi, and the two frequently battled one another. Nazi also served as a member of Mister Mind's Monster Society of Evil during the WWII years, before making his final Fawcett Comics appearance in Captain Marvel, Jr. #14 in 1944. Prominent members of the Monster Society Of Evil. ... The Monster Society of Evil is a fictional team of supervillains published first by Fawcett Comics, then by DC Comics. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...

DC Comics

Captain Marvel, Jr. and Captain Nazi on the cover of The Power of Shazam! #19 (1996). Art by Jerry Ordway.

Captain Nazi appeared only sporadically in DC Comics' 1970s/1980s revival of the Marvel Family characters under the title Shazam!, save for reprints of the original Fawcett stories. Nazi's first appearance in a new DC Comics story was in Shazam! #34 (March- April 1978). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (400x606, 141 KB)The Power of Shazam! #19 This image is the cover of an individual issue of a comic book. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (400x606, 141 KB)The Power of Shazam! #19 This image is the cover of an individual issue of a comic book. ... The covers of both the hardcover and the softcover versions of the Power of Shazam! graphic novel by Jerry Ordway. ... The covers of both the hardcover and the softcover versions of the Power of Shazam! graphic novel by Ordway. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... The Marvel Family is a group of fictional characters, a team of superheroes in the Fawcett Comics and DC Comics universes. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

Captain Nazi was introduced into the modern DC Universe in Jerry Ordway's The Power of Shazam! series in 1995. In the modern series, Nazi had been active during the 1940s, battling WWII-era heroes such as Bulletman, Minute-Man, and Spy Smasher, but placed himself in suspended animation so that he could emerge in modern society and revive the Third Reich. Nazi's brother, scientist Wolf Krieger, and his granddaughter, a superpowered villainess named Madame Libertine who possessed mind-controlling powers, carried on Nazi's legacy in the 1990s and resurrected their hero from his suspended animation chamber in Power of Shazam! #5. Cover to the History of the DC Universe trade paperback. ... The covers of both the hardcover and the softcover versions of the Power of Shazam! graphic novel by Ordway. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... The word Minuteman usually has one of the following meanings, depending on context: the Minutemen of the American Revolutionary War (the origin of the term) the LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile the Minuteman pocket calculator by Commodore Business Machines the Minuteman Project (volunteer American citizens patrolling the US/Mexican... Spy Smasher (real name Alan Armstrong) is a DC Comics superhero, formerly owned by Fawcett Comics. ... Suspended animation is the slowing of life processes by external means without termination. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ...

Issues #6–8 of the Power of Shazam series retell the story of Nazi's murder of Freddy's grandfather, his crippling of Freddy, and Freddy's emergence as Marvel, Jr. and attempted revenge on Nazi. After the Marvel Family captures and defeats Nazi, he is sent to Europe to be tried for war crimes committed during World War II. World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ...

Captain Nazi eventually joined Lex Luthor's new Secret Society of Super Villains as seen in the miniseries Villains United, where he was working with them to torture the Secret Six. He was then blinded during the escape of the Secret Six when Catman plunged syringes into his eyes. The Secret Society of Super Villains (SSoSV) is a group of comic book villains that exist in the DC Universe. ... Villains United is a six-issue comic book limited series, written by Gail Simone with art by Dale Eaglesham and Wade von Grawbadger, published by DC Comics in 2005. ... The Secret Six is the name of three distinct, fictional comic book teams in the DC Comics universe, plus a noncanonical fourth team. ... Catman is a supervillain in the DC Comics Rogues Gallery. ...

Captain Nazi met his apparent end in Batman #647 while fighting Batman and The Red Hood. The Captain and two other Society members had been lent out to the villain Black Mask to aid his attempt to assassinate The Red Hood. During the fight, The Red Hood apparently killed Captain Nazi by jamming a taser-like weapon into his cybernetic eyes (the only vulnerable part of his body). However, in Villains United Special #1, it was revealed that Nazi had survived. At the behest of the Society, Nazi appeared in Khandaq to release all of the captives in its prisons and fought Khandaq's ruler and former Secret Society member, Black Adam. During the battle, Black Adam confronted Nazi about how he seemingly survived being killed, at which time Captain Nazi cryptically proclaimed that previous origins about him were wrong and that the villain wasn't even human; that he was the living avatar of National Socialism given physical form and that so long as there are Nazis in existence, he would exist. Despite this revelation, Black Adam easily defeated Captain Nazi. (Note: In Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, the Thought Police agent O'Brien states that "Big Brother cannot die, for he is the manifestation of The Party, and the Party will never die".) It has been suggested that Skills and abilities of Batman be merged into this article or section. ... Cover to Batman: Under The Hood (2005). ... Black Mask is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ... Summary An electroshock gun or stun gun, is a weapon used for subduing a person by administering an electric shock. ... Black Adam is a fictional comic book character whose morally ambiguous nature has his character fall between the lines of heroism and villainy; as a result, he has associated himself with both superheroes and supervillains in the past. ... Orwell (or Orwellian) can refer to: The writer George Orwell (pen name for Eric Blair). ... Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a darkly satirical political novel by George Orwell. ... The term thought police was first coined by novelist George Orwell, in his dystopic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), to describe the phenomenon of surveilling and policing impure or politically incorrect thoughts. ... Big Brother may refer to: Big Brother (1984), a character from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four Authoritarianism, referred to as Big Brother, any omnipresent, seemingly benevolent figure representing the oppressive control over individual lives exerted by an authoritarian government, a concept from the above novel. ...

He has since appeared as leader of a Nazi-themed team in Justice Society of America after the "One Year Later" jump. The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. ...

Other media

In an episode of Justice League Unlimited, Captain Nazi made a round-about appearance. During a flashback sequence, a character who looks very similar to Captain Nazi is prevented from taking a super-soldier serum by Fawcett Comics hero Spy Smasher. It is later revealed that the serum was created for "Project Captain Nazi." General Wade Eiling broke into Cadmus Labs and injected himself with the serum. He then went on a rampage against the Justice League. The idea of a super-soldier serum in a WWII-era setting is very similar to the premise of Captain America. Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) was an American animated television series produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... Whiz Comics #2, the first appearance of Captain Marvel, the companys most popular character. ... Spy Smasher (real name Alan Armstrong) is a DC Comics superhero, formerly owned by Fawcett Comics. ... General Wade Eiling is a military character and supervillain from DC Comics. ... Project Cadmus is a fictional government genetic engineering project in the DC Comics Universe. ... Captain America is also the name of a song by Jimmy Buffet. ...

External link

• Captain Nazi's "Who's Who" file at The Marvel Family Web.