Appearing in "American Nightmare, Part I: The Bite of Madness"
Featured Characters:
- (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- (a Baseball player) (First appearance)(Secretly briefly possessed by Nightmare)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Daily Bugle (Named only)
- United States Army (Mentioned)
- Gen. Ulysses R. Chapman (Photo)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Warbird (Carol Danvers) (Only in recap)
- Clint Barton (Mentioned)
- Tony Stark (Mentioned)
- Lunatic Legion (Only in recap)
- (First appearance)
- Mr. Puckett (Hardware store's owner) (Mentioned)
- Mrs. O'Reilly (Flowers shop's owner) (Mentioned)
- Mrs. Genuardi (Mentioned)
- (First appearance)
- (First appearance)
- (First appearance)
- (First appearance)
- (First appearance)
- Nick Fury (Mentioned)
- Grey Gargoyle (Paul Duval) (Mentioned)
- President Clinton (Mentioned)
- U.S. Agent (John Walker) (Mentioned)
- (First appearance)(Secretly briefly possessed by Nightmare)
- (Behind the scenes)(Secretly briefly possesses Jack Patterson and Mike Ranier)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Human-Kree Hybrids (Only in recap)
- Kree (Only in recap)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
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- Avengers Mansion, Midtown Manhattan (Referenced)
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- Florida (Only in recap)
- Cape Canaveral (Only in recap)
- Puerto Rico (Mentioned)
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- United States of America (Main story and recap)
Items:
- Replica of Captain America's Triangular Shield (Main story and recap)
- Captain America's Uniform (Main story and recap)
- Warbird's Suit (Only in recap)
- Vibranium (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "American Nightmare, Part I: The Bite of Madness"
- Synopsis not yet written
Notes
Continuity Notes
- After the destruction of Captain America's Triangular Shield Replica in last issue, Sharon Carter give Steve the Energy Shield he once used in Captain America #451–452.
Publication Notes
- This issue's indicia gives special thanks to Eliot R. Brown.
- This issue also contains a letters page, American Grafitti. Letters are published from: Steve Chung, Kevin Johnson, and Grant Leary.