Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- New Paramounts (Final appearance)
- Giant-Sam (Sam Parkin) (Main story and flashback) (Final appearance)
- Forbush Man (Main story and flashback)
- Bulk (David Beiderbecke) (Final appearance)
- Charlie America (Final appearance; dies)
- Beyond Corporation
- S.I.L.E.N.T. core cell
- Number None (First appearance)
- Mister Sssh (First appearance)
- Pope Omertà (First appearance)
- General Quiet (First appearance)
- The Surgery (First appearance)
- Doctor Injectable (First appearance)
- Doctor Nosexy (First appearance)
- Doctor Meatball (First appearance)
- Doctor Headless (First appearance)
- The Vestry (First appearance)
- The Inquisitor (First appearance)
- Father Pain (First appearance)
- Red Rosary (First appearance)
- Reverend Guilt (First appearance)
- Abbess Horror ⏵ (First appearance)
- The Homosexuality (Mentioned)
- Sun King (Mentioned)
- The Midniteman (Mentioned)
- Polestar (Mentioned)
- Slightly Creepy Policewoman (Mentioned)
- S.I.L.E.N.T. core cell
Other Characters:
- Project Rebirth (Only in flashback)
- Codename Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only in flashback)
- Dr. Abraham Erskine (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed members (Only in flashback)
- Nazi Party (Only in flashback)
- Agent X-9 (Heinz Kruger) (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Führer (Adolf Hitler) (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Agent Z-B (Only in flashback)
- US Army (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Eva Braun (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Devil Dinosaur (Mentioned)
- Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath/Yellowjacket (Dr. Hank Pym) (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Giant-Sam's wife (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- General Dirk Anger (Mentioned)
- Next Wave (Mentioned)
- Beast of Botswana (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Special Legion of Machine Avengers Executive (Earth-999) (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Charles Xavier (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Not Brand Echh characters (comic book covers)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Robots
- Mutants
- Broccoli Men
Locations:
- Earth-63163
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Washington, D.C. (Only in flashback)
- "a city on jets"
- San Francisco, California (Mentioned)
- prison in Nevada (Main story and flashback)
- Canada (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Europe (Mentioned)
- France (Mentioned)
- Botswana, Africa (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Lake Ngami (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- The Sun (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Earth-999 (Mentioned)
- Earth-665 (as fiction)
Items:
- Super-Soldier Serum (Only in flashback)
- Heartstar
- Pym Particles (Mentioned)
- Not Brand Echh # Not Brand Echh #2, Not Brand Echh #3, Not Brand Echh #9
- Charlie America's Uniform
- Giant-Sam's Suit
Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
The issue begins with a flashback to a few moments after the creation of Captain America back in 1941, where the soon to be superhero has taken a post-transformation bathroom break. Not long after a Nazi agent attempts to steal a massive jar of the Captain's fresh urine but has it stolen from him by an unseen figure.
In the present, the Nextwave find themselves in a city that has been turned into a ghost town with empty streets. Tabitha Smith learns about French Canadians. Monica discovers that the city isn't a ghost town but actually a full sized fake city to be used as a trap to lure the Nextwave in. Before they can escape a floating upside-down castle appears, being ridden by a figure who identifies himself as Number None, the Chief Executive Officer of the Beyond Corporation. Number None then releases wave after wave of themed supervillain teams at Nextwave, including the New Paramounts, an Avengers parody team led by the comedy based superhero Forbush Man.
The Nextwave begin to fight.
Trivia
- Elsa's closing line in the issue is a humorous reference to a similar one delivered by Captain America in the Marvel comic book series Ultimates #12.
