CAPTAIN AMERICA

July 1973 • Volume 1 • Usa • 222 Collected

CAPTAIN AMERICA #163

1st Appearance of The Serpent Squad

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(Marvel) Cover for CAPTAIN AMERICA #163 1st Appearance of The Serpent Squad

Key Issue

Basic Information

Published

July 1973

Comic Age

Bronze

Cover Price

.20

Facts

1st APPEARANCE of The "SERPENT SQUAD": "COBRA" (Klaus Voorhees), "EEL" (Leopold Stryke), "VIPER" (Jordan Dixon)

Characters

Creators

Writer

Steve Englehart

Penciler

Sal Buscema

Cover Penciler

Sal Buscema

Inker

John Verpoorten

Letterer

Charlotte Jetter

Colorist

Petra Goldberg

Editor

Roy Thomas

Stories

Stories may contain spoilers

Beware Of Serpents

1st appearance of "Serpent Squad"
Cobra (Klaus Voorhees), was mutagenically altered via radiated snake venom.Very flexible and slithery body, Superhuman athletic abilities and Wall crawling.
Eel (Leopold Stryke), the original Eel, was the curator of an aquarium who led a secret life as a costumed criminal. Eel received all of his powers from the suit he had constructed.
Viper (Jordan Dixon), was the brother of Leopold Stryke, who was the original Eel. When Jordan Stryke went into the advertising business, he legally changed his last name to Dixon so as to avoid association with his brother's criminal reputation. But later took up the identity of the Viper.