A fugitive runs through an Idaho
woodland pursued by uniformed guards with ferocious dogs; this runner
is revealed to be Nick Fury and he is caught by his pursuers before
he can reach his SHIELD GPS hidden in a tree stump. Fury is taken
back to the guards' unnamed Master....
In New York, a gang of terrorists are
holding hostages in a restaurant. Captain America, alerted to the
situation, rides his motorcycle through the restaurant's entrance and
quickly takes down the bad guys. The rescued patrons are grateful,
and one of them, an elderly man named Stanley Klein, saw Cap during
the War—and Cap remembers him. There is a brief moment of sorrow
when Klein mentions Bucky but Cap recovers quickly. Outside the
police detective in charge is likewise grateful and offers to repair
the damage to his cycle. Cap takes the rooftop route back to Avengers
Mansion but realizes he is being followed. He doubles back and
confronts his pursuers, who turn out to be three young SHIELD agents,
Corbin, Pyle, and Billups. They are nervous in Cap's presence so Cap
talks directly to their commander Dum Dum Dugan over the radio. Dugan
tells Cap he is not under arrest but is wanted at SHIELD HQ....
At SHIELD HQ, Cap finds his former
partner the Falcon there. Dugan fills them in: a white supremacist
group has kidnapped General McAllister Groves, an African America
serviceman, and used his ID card to get into a top-secret facility
and steal a deadly load of anthrax. Nick Fury (presumed dead at this
point) went in undercover and has been captured. SHIELD needs Cap and
the Falcon to go in....
Interlude 1: Sharon Carter and Turkish
Secret Service Director Mehmet Kemel, who has been transformed into
an ankylosaurus (don't believe me? See issue #21), hijacks a plane
and heads out of Turkey....
Interlude 2: The three young SHIELD
agents, Corbin, Pyle, and Billups, who flubbed their assignment to
find Cap, are reassigned to catalog an enormous warehouse of stuff
accumulated by the US Government since World War 1....
In Idaho, Cap and Falcon are undercover
as a couple of fishermen; Sam keeps annoying Steve by talking about
Sharon and Connie Ferrari. Suddenly their boat is capsized by Nazi
divers but the two heroes quickly change into their costumes and make
short work of the team of divers. Then a pair of helicopters open
fire on them; each hero takes down one craft—then a gas bomb is
detonated. As Cap and Falcon succumb to the knockout gas, the enemy
leader comes forward—the Hate Monger....
2. “Fast Lane Part 2: Feel the Rush”
Writer: Glenn Herdling. Pencils: Gregg
Schigiel. Inks: Richard Case. Colors: Paul Mounts.
Synopsis: An anti-drug public service
announcement featuring Spider-Man appearing in several Marvel comics
this month.