Captain America Is A WEREWOLF!

[@mikehawk4388]

I adore this mad scientist woman whose skillset is exclusively tailored to turning people into werewolves. An absolute goddess. A queen.

[@jensenyuki7252]

Just like Sasha.

[@ESTComicsEvolutions]

She's actually in Luke Cage 😂

[@rna151]

"If you do what you love..."

[@wellthatwaswierd4570]

@@rna151... "werewolves will follow"

[@jeanvictor8178]

A furry

[@troodon1096]

"Impossible! You should be dead!" Because, as everyone knows, Captain America's one weakness is carpet. Thankfully Wolverine saved him just in time.

[@karensoto235]

"For sheep cannot levitate out of harm's way." Based on this quote alone, I now love Dr. Druid.

[@zenquantum1246]

I now want to start a webinar series to educate sheep (and other barnyard animals) on the safety benefits of levitation.

[@DullTorpor]

Almost sounds like something from the Bible.

[@Vox-Multis]

I mean, he's not wrong. Sheep really can't do that.

[@mariamaravilla9005]

I'm convinced Nightshade wanting to turn Cap into a werewolf all the time is some kind of kink lol

[@louisalectube]

As of right now, in 2020, I am 46 years old. I bought this comic as a teenager- and I still have it in storage somewhere! Heehee!

[@german2122]

Sell it!!

[@LordDarque]

Yeah same. Also bought the new Cap Wolf one.

[@harrisfrankou2368]

I bought it too!

[@krisj827]

Amazing

[@deadeyedblack2350]

Ok Michael Jackson

[@davidfountain6607]

"How did you escape the carpet of death? You two were supposed to die of terminal rug burns!!" (Star Wolf is full of stars, and he still isn't very bright!)

[@nebezial1]

gotta give it to 90s, they embraced the outrageous

[@neerGdyahS]

Well, I was born in 1995, and I realized the present would not be as cool without the 90's or 80's, 70's 60's and so on paving the way.

[@markcarpenter6020]

@@neerGdyahS I was born in the 70s and let me say living through the 80s and 90s was one hell of a ride. In a some ways they were a heck of a lot more fun than now.

[@timgonzales2891]

Its funny that this is what's remembered of gruenwalds cap run, because to me, it is the best cap America run. You write a run for ten years, and see if things don't get weird by the end lol

[@KouD3Graw]

I love it when a character is made to be some kind of beast or animal hybrid. It's like joining a martial arts tournament and one of the guys Sabrewulf (Killer Instinct)

[@olyrhys8724]

Best supernatural out of nowhere arc for me is the Batman/Superman team up where they somehow end up on the set of Deliverance to solve some mystery. A beautiful and vulnerable young latchkey farm helps them......until she pushes Batman into some quicksand when Superman’s not looking and slashes Superman’s guts open with her claws - because she’s a vampire! It takes a major left turn without warning and I remember the transformation and vampire art being very scary for a mainstream comic. It was in that weird time when Superman could go hand to hand with Darkseid but was vulnerable to ‘rabbit in a hat’ level magic. It did have a great ending - Batman sinks into the quicksand but reappears in the nick of time to save disembowelled Superman. He’s covered in mud and water and has lanced the terrifying vampire girl on a long improvised stake. He makes some comment about how he solved it (after she shoved him to his suffocating death - good job, Worlds Greatest Detective) and that you can actually swim through quicksand if you’re calm and strong enough. It’s a bit tonally odd but some of the art is great and a Batman solution that does show cool headed thinking and improvisation plus clear studying and knowledge of the supernatural does contrast the two characters well.

[@godomen7587]

I closed my own neck wound through sheer force of will! Lmao

[@johnathonhaney8291]

"If you get killed, walk it off."

[@TheSuperhomosapien]

Little known fact, Dr. Druid can set up your home stereo like nobody's business.

[@wwbwbgohbc]

lol no witting banter about the McDonald's bag setting on top of the filing cabinet?

[@CasuallyComics]

lol I won't give in to their product placement

[@gabrielcorvis]

I just made a comment about that lol

[@jonathanross149]

@@CasuallyComics CC, you might have gotten a free small fry if you played corporate ball....Does that change your mind?

[@jimkirk4357]

I just realized the left eyebrow thing is a a scar. That's SOO cool. I find Sasha an accomplished entertainer. Amazing voice, great sense of humor. I grew up reading this stuff because a friend's older brother had tons of old comics from the 60's. You are the unparalleled best. Thank you for being you.

[@cornlips7247]

Cap's wolf head on the cover of capwolf looks so terrible lol. Imagine that exact cover coming out today. The head looks like it is not even in the right place lol. I miss the old school comics quirkyness.

[@error4159]

It looks like my first Photoshop, lol

[@wise_girl9388]

If I recall correctly, Scott wanted to name the baby Christopher after his dad but then Madelyne was like "Nooooo, we have to name him Nathan" and he just went along with it. Another fun Cable fact for you, Rachel Summers a.k.a. his alternate reality half-sister or full-sister (depending on how you view Jean's genetic relationship with Cable via her clone) was actually very involved in his life after he was infected with the techno virus as a baby. She even lead a clan in the future that worshiped him.

[@KnoxOutComics]

"Bite my neck for maybe" Lol I laughed at that too hard!!!

[@kingcheerio8558]

I love how Mark "Marvel Encyclopedia" Gruenwald forgot Werewolf By Night exists for the Werewolf storyline, but apparently in a weird parallel to Stan Lee creating Doctor Strange because he forgot details about Doctor Droom, created Moon Hunter because he remembered Moon Knight first appeared to fight Werewolves.

[@jacobwillis7596]

I’ve heard this story many times and read it once but every time I hear it I always forget how weird it is.

[@Matthew.E.Kelly.]

It's amazing to see stuff like this from just 25-30 years ago and see how much more seriously supernatural and occult topics are taken by writers today. The modern equivalents are far darker, such as *War of the Vampires* and *Curse of the Mutants* - but it's essentially the same kind of story. It's occult-themed stuff without any of the actual occult. On the other hand, historical occult symbolism and lore has also made its way into comics since then, and we have the gaps between the two being filled with Doctor Strange, Doctor Doom, and Spirits of Vengeace - even some of this year's Black Cat story had elements taken from Eliphas Levi, Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly's treatises on sorcery and occultism. Comic writers always manage to make something for everyone, and that's what makes these stories so relevant. Whether you want the fun and light-hearted stories like Capwolf, older Hellfire Club story arcs and the like - or if you're more into something that leans towards the genuinely disturbing (Robinson's *Scarlet Witch* and Lemire's *Moon Knight* runs, for example) - comic books have something for everyone and it's an exciting time to be reading them!

[@trekadam30]

You should do a video on another 6-issue story called, "Captain America: The Estrogen Stratagem". Bizarre AF.

[@euansmith3699]

22:21 My favourite supernatural arc is "Cher Down Below"; where Cher has to go to hell to clear up some minor continuity point in the MCU. Thanks for another great video.

[@chrislail3824]

You should do Cap’s next big story line after this where he’s trapped on a cruise ship full of third tier villain women.

[@allanreele8352]

Dr Druid is THE best character ever. With your voice Sasha, I had an image of the Merlin from Venture Bros... Dr Orpheus!

[@HankChinaski27]

I'm really fond of Jason Aaron's run on Ghost Rider, broadening what it means to be Ghost Rider, and that huge epic finale that was all that comic bombast that I just eat up. Earlier supernatural stuff...70s Marvel horror books especially Tomb of Dracula.

[@zacjumpman209]

"But I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into werewolves!" -Dr. Nightshade, probably

[@totz_the_plaid9625]

...isn't Jack Russell, a.k.a. "Werewolf by Night" also in this story? I read it, or perhaps about it, years ago and seem to remember him there as well...

[@witchvideofly]

Oh my God the fanfics make sense now!

[@lalberts]

Cap 333-350 is one of the best story arches in Cap’s history. 351 after gets pretty weird for a long time.

[@jasonb6860]

Somehow I was lucky enough as a child to only own 1 Captain America comic. #405. Capwolf. The only part of the comic I could recall before watching this was the opening transformation. How the hell did I forget the pony-tail wearing druid and his mental standoff struggle thing? It might be my favourite thing of 90s comics.

[@jamall7003]

Omg I love how the comic makes Droom out to be a joke and even more how sasha points that out and gives him a dumb voice 😂

[@Jordacar]

FUN FACT: Feral isn't a werewolf at all. She's a werecat. So in this story she's a cat trying to join a club of dogs.

[@totz_the_plaid9625]

Think THAT'S bad? With the bullshit stuff about Romulus in the Wolverine comics later, they included SASQUATCH in with the "wolf people."

[@IntelligentDiscussion]

I read this as an eight year old kid and thought it was an amazing storyline, it was definitely made at the top of a marvel comics era of the nineties.

[@vasp99]

You have inspired me to start combing through my ancient collection of comics which led to Marvel Team Up and the werewolf version of ...Doctor Strange! Issue #80 has Doctor Strange as the single most boring werewolf ever. The best part was where Spider Man shows Doctor Strange's hairy palms to Strange's girlfriend Clea. The significant part is the next issue #81 where , for whatever reason , the daughter of Satan , Satana intervenes and sacrifices her life to unwolf Doctor Strange. I think that Doctor Strange survives as a character despite the weak boring depictions he received during the 70's and 80's .

[@chuckrichards391]

That is a bad ass scar u got!! Love to hear the story sometime, or not, i dont wanna be rude, but really u wear it very well👍

[@KyrenaH]

Moonhunter looks like the most 90s thing ever.

[@aproposreeve]

Steve looks more like a were-golden retriever than a wolf

[@DrBanzaiPhd]

The Howling was good. American Werewolf in London was better. Cycle of the Wolf was a S. King book that had some great art for every chapter. Almost a graphic novel.

[@stthomasaquarius]

Love your pronunciation of Druid. (drood)

[@remylabeau5140]

6:33 THANK YOU! Sorry it’s off topic, but as much as I love Wolverine I really hate that they made it seem like he could kill the entire X-Men team. I still don’t buy it.

[@sustainablyaware]

WOW! As I get ready to have CAPWOLF AND STARWOLF T- shirts made- As usual your comic timing is spot on and your Dr Drood voice yes yes yes! Doesn’t everyone want to self-heal there neck wound ? Awesome!

[@Ben623]

Definitely had an issue of this I got from dollar tree as a kid. Cap wolf is a classic

[@jameswolfe2622]

The Adventures of Space Wolf and the Moon Gems ('moon gems' was my band in high school) (i use to snort killer 'sky cycle' when I was in a band in high school)

[@KevinCNeece]

I was subscribing to Captain America during this run. It was my first ever comic subscription and I had it for about a year. I was waning in my interest in the title and then Capwolf happened. That was more than I could take--a sure sign I had hung on too long with an already lackluster title. I cancelled my subscription and never looked back.

[@Jbondage]

Love the videos and your enthusiasm for the absolute weridness for the issue in all its glory keep it up Sasha!

[@ultrasonic205]

I just watched this today, and I'm horrified to admit that I'd like to see a video about the history of Dr. Druid. I'd imagine it would have a title along the lines of "Dr. Druid... Why?"

[@thaboiinblue]

Hearing you say “howl at the moon” sounded like “Howlett moon”. Do wolverines howl? All I know is his real name makes a lot more sense to me now.

[@DIEGhostfish]

18:03 I completely forgot the doppleganger crossover but I knew one when I saw it. It's kin to the spider-man one that was always hanging around Carnage like a puppy. Also to the one that Usurped Latveria while DOOM was away with... IIRC Kang in the Infinity War arc. That one showed up in a great couple issues of Silver Sable's Wild Pack. It dealt with Latverian-Symkarian diplomacy, and had of course Battlestar and Sandman!

[@LukeCage1]

ok, this made me giggle, i just hit subscribe! good job, i only follow a select few.

[@NightHawke]

I had the second of the two Spider-man comics where the Man-Wolf premiered. I also got the Power Records comic version, where they cut out all the non-Man-Wolf parts and had voice actors (Including Pete "Speed Racer" Fernandez!) dramatize the action on an included 45 RPM record. I am so old. So the source werewolf is...Jack Russell. As in the dog breed. Uh-huh. 🤦‍♂️ Wow, you said it, a lot of a lot! Don't think I'd ever pick it up myself, but it was fun to have you go through it.

[@DIEGhostfish]

4:20 People saying it without emphasis on the I for Drew-id will always make me think of the Mystrey of the Droods song.

[@noeffortrandomness3182]

I've got the capwolf marvel legend from a couple years ago.

[@Tim3.14]

The first Captain America comic I ever read was right in the middle of the Capwolf storyline. It was an… interesting introduction to the character.

[@williambethea8703]

Yo, I love this episode Sasha. I never knew about Capt. Wolf. Got to find those comics. Cable cameos are the best. Currently reading "Marked" which spotlights magic and tattoos.

[@bizboy8631]

sasha...when you said "when you down there, like etc...and pointing...hmmmmm, a whole different idea run to my head....lol,

[@gabrielcorvis]

LOL Gotta love that low-key McDonald's product placement in the panel at 3:30. Captian 'Murrica!

[@dwaynemuth8775]

I didn’t read Cap from 1980-1995 and this was just one reason why! Thanks you for the laughs!😵‍💫😀

[@Master1Morrison]

Omg I love your wizard voice! Made me laugh even more at him doing what he did

[@kyleeartist2829]

I was collecting Cap when Cap Wolf was published in single issues. I won’t lie, I thought it was pretty silly even way back when.

[@travishiltz4750]

Marc Greenwald's Cap run was equal parts brilliant and insane. He'd tell this big epic Cap stories and then do something goofy, most likely because he just felt like it, or because there was a character no one else cared about that he liked. Dr. Druid is a bit of a punchline, but I enjoyed the two really short lived teams he was on,: The Monster Hunters and the Shock Troop.

[@michaelbrent1536]

We definitely need to talk about marvels Justice league rip off the Squadron Supreme Featuring Hyperion(Superman),Nighthawk(Batman),Whizzer (Flash) and Zarda(Wonder Woman)!

[@johnathonhaney8291]

Not ripoff...Grunedwald's deconstructionist take on same, just like Watchmen was for the Charlton Comics heroes (though Squadron Supreme was first). BTW, think you overlooked Tom Thumb (Atom), Magicka (Zatanna), Golden Archer (Green Arrow), Doctor Spectrum (Green Lantern) and Nuklon (Firestorm) in that listing.

[@scott5261]

I truly like the way you tell the story

[@welcometothetroyiverse8864]

Lmao and a comb. Wow Wolfsbane. I loved her arc in X-Factor. The therapy issue hands done my favorite.

[@MrTumshie]

Wow. I'd heard of Capwolf before this but if I'd known it was this silly I'd have looked it up years ago. (Silly in a wonderful way.)

[@johnathonhaney8291]

Pal, I was there and it was batshit insane even by my standards.

[@gussmithiii5446]

Now I know about Cap't Wolf!!?? now, I'm GLAD I didn't invest in this Crap-Hackstory!! It seemed that there were stories written just to include our favorite heroes "Just Because" The art was not the best either!! ugh! Thank You, Sasha!!! Yikes!! 😳🤣

[@ctl6985]

My intro to Nightshade was in the Luke Cage Netflix show. And then I saw her in a Black Panther run I read

[@BubsArcadeFighters]

Oh man I had one of these issues back in '92... Loved the design of Cap Wolf! Thx I totally forgot about this story...

[@BB-qv1vg]

It's easy to call something like this hokey, or absurdly stupid, but when you're tuned in and just waiting for such a comic to brighten your day... man, what a fantastic comic :) Starwolf! Yeah!!

[@michaellangwaller]

The werewolf that drove off is, I believe, Jack Russell, aka Werewolf By Night, whose lycanthropy is due to the Darkhold and curse inheritance. Nightshade may have drawn the serum from Jack> Werewolf by Night has a curious look as he normally does not have a snout but more like the old Universal Wolfman. I guess it was during one of his feral stages.

[@CasuallyComics]

He is lol showing up for yet another 90s cameo.

[@taste_is_sweet]

There was a callback to that series in the "Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe" one-shot. Now I know what they were talking about.

[@videoj81]

Nicely done

[@dmolson512]

I was looking for nic naks for my office and ran across a Marvel Legends CapWolf figure

[@uncannyrman]

The whole Capwolf story was utter nonsense. I love it!

[@mndrew1]

Best 'supernatural' comic - late 70's justice league Halloween issues; always in Rutlage VT; and always with the Phantom Stranger. "The Carnival of Souls" probably the best. Scary supernatural rollercoster rides!

[@garyschwartz5315]

Really wonderful channel, just discovered it. Wonderful delivery. Great job picking fun, weird issues to focus on. Totally enjoying it

[@Mephiestopholes]

I had these comics, too. It's the first time I was introduced to Deadpool.

[@azurga]

The initial appearance of Nightshade would be a worthy follow up to this. It was the Falcon IIRC that turned wolfman there, and I think she was all of 16 years old(!) at the time as well. :D

[@mistermustachio336]

You're doing great work with the choice of stories and issues that you cover. I'm quickly becoming a fan (yes, I hit the subscribe button).

[@JPHarringtonJr]

this is my fav CC ep so far

[@SpiritOfBagheera]

This was the point when I quit reading Captain America ... that is, until Priest did his Cap/Falc run and Ed Brubaker started up another Captain America #1. (I actually loved Mark Gruenwald's Captain saga. That was one of the highest peaks for the character. But MODAM and CapWolf and Cap armor and the continuing drama between Steve Rogers and Diamondback? That stuff really, really stunk.)

[@monthly.girls.digital8728]

Nothing is more funny than Steve just asking if every werewolf was John Jameson

[@jaceruiz2382]

The craziness of adding in guest stars kinda reminds me of the Amazing Spider-Man story arc Round Robin The Sidekicks Revenge. Try that story line for pure situation mad-libbing story goodness.

[@cookieDaXapper]

Sensational special super salty sass today!!!!! Puzzle me this Miss Puzzler: what thread, and glue are holding capwolf's mark on?..........hunh? ....Elmer's and kevlar......no, ..........I think not. Annnndddddd, what comic book store are you living/raiding in???? MAD LOVE Sweet sister, PEACE.

[@alexnejako777]

i have Nightshade as a Heroclix. she had been away from comics for a while but Gruenwald was the right to bring her back!

[@jonathanwarrdddedcxddeecec4787]

There’s something kinda endearing about a less popular doctor strange like character wanting to prove himself .

[@jasonpratt5126]

I'm pretty sure the guy who doesn't get cured, because he doesn't want to be, is Jack Russel(?) Werewolf By Night, who was introduced earlier as the source of the synthetic werewolf serum. And antidote. Or whatever. He's a legacy Marvel character from the 70s (at a time when they were trying to get back to some horror roots) who shows up every once in a while. More importantly, or maybe less importantly I'm not sure, what was this mutagen that Doctor Nightshade hit Cap with in an earlier episode?

[@LizAnneOswalt]

Cool vid. Cap Wolf Rocks.

[@roberthardin2133]

I'm familiar with the 70s blaxploitation Nightshade-in which she turns Falcon into a werewolf and forces him to fight Cap. she's a silly character with a silly premise, but I'm here for her.

[@Logan_Baron]

We should really question Cap's judgement. He keeps hiring known criminals and villains. Dude JUST tried to kill them "Want a job with the Avengers?". Even Jameson Jr. was previously a Super Villain in his wolf form. I know he was free of that when he was hired, so no longer a bad guy, but he was still hired without any precautions to make sure that was a done thing, and that there wouldn't be problems later. I remember that this was at the time that Spider-Man was not able to join because of the stuff the Bugle was writing about him being bad. And Cap hires the guy as the Avengers new pilot (though we've seen everyone fly that quinjet, do they need a pilot (especially moreso than a therapist)?) without even checking with any other Avengers feedback or whoever is in charge of/funding the Avengers at this point, was it SHIELD or the US Gov/Gyrich, or the UN at that point? Pretty sure it was before Stark funded them himself. Does Cap just show up at the mansion and tell everyone "Hey guys, Jamesons gone, This is moonhunter, He's our new pilot. I met him when he was teamed up with some other supervillains and tried to kill me. But he's a good guy, I guess, as of 10 minutes ago, so give him access to our entire base. And way back (though with Marvels sliding scale timeline it wouldn't be that long ago) he had the entire Avengers team made up of previous (but only recently previous) enemies/bad guys/villains. Hawkeye, Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver. Two of them recently members of Magneto's brotherhood of EVIL Mutants. Bent on taking over the world or killing everyone or whatever. I get that he's all about redemption but doesn't even do any further vetting, or anything to make sure they really are good. I mean they JUST NOW CLAIMED to be good guys now, all of a sudden, after ages of being enemies. How do you know it's not a trick? All the Avengers enemies should just tell Cap in the middle of the fight that they want to join the Avengers and He'll be like "Sure, here's the keys to the mansion, make sure to check out all our top secret files so you'll be up to speed on everything".

[@DIEGhostfish]

20:47 D-Man Dunphy? I loved that guy! Not sure how I felt about spencer or coates or someone around that time turning him gay after he'd spent decades as the butt of jokes. (And even at his heyday in Cap's run he was kinda on the timid side) But I can almost kinda see it as a VERY BELATED tie in to how crazy Nomad was to be jealous of the time he spent with his girl if he wasn't into girls to start with.

[@johnathonhaney8291]

OMG, I was there when the original issues of Capwolf dropped. It was right when I got started collecting comics. Definitely not one of Gruenwald's better stories, although would you ever consider profiling his best one, Squadron Supreme? Oh and Cable, at that time, gave Wolverine a run for his money as the King of Cameos.

[@welcometothetroyiverse8864]

Midnight Sons. It was my everything in my 90’s. Now it’s Neil Gaiman Sandman. Reading it now.

[@LordDarque]

Favorite supernatural arc: Rise of the Midnight Sons, Midnight Massacre, and Siege of Darkness

[@Jellyvibe]

Check out Captain America #164 (1973) to see Cap's first encounter with Deadly Nightshade and experience a gigantic, werewolfed Falcon! Plus, a whole mess of some of the weirdest looking werewolves you'll ever see.

[@welcometothetroyiverse8864]

That’s how I was introduced to James Logan Howlett. Lady Deathbird stuck a spear in his spine and dropped him in one hit. Jubilation Jubliee Lee pulled it out. And the ol knucklehead got back up.

[@Smithjaack]

This was an amazing trip.

[@welcometothetroyiverse8864]

X-Cutioner’s song X Family cross over saga was Ninth Doctor Brilliant. Lol

[@Goku91278]

Great video again love it so much

[@user-lj5ri3gp5o]

Nope... didn't come here for Capwolf. Came to hear you break this down. Another home run!

[@harrisfrankou2368]

Love your channel but it is pronounced Dr Dru-id. A Celtic word for mystic. Yours is one of my favorite comic channels.