CAPTAIN NAZI (Albrecht Krieger)
Created By: William Woolfolk & Mac Raboy
First Appearance: Master Comics #21 (Dec. 1941)
Role: Mirror Image Villain (to Captain Marvel)
Group Affiliations: The Monster Society of Evil, The Fourth Reich
PL 11 (134)
STRENGTH 13
STAMINA 13
AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 8
DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 0
AWARENESS 0
PRESENCE 0
Skills:
Deception 5 (+5)
Expertise (Soldier) 7 (+9)
Intimidation 8 (+8)
Perception 4 (+4)
Vehicles 2 (+6)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Fast Grab, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 4, Startle
Powers:
"Flight Gas" Flight 8 (500 mph) [16]
Power-Lifting 2 (1,600 tons) [2]
"Vague Super-Senses" Senses 2 (Extended Vision & Hearing) [2]
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+13 Damage, DC 28)
Initiative +2
Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +9 (DC 19), Toughness +13, Fortitude +13, Will +6
Complications:
Motivation (The Nazi Cause)- Captain Nazi was first a loyal soldier, and then a Neo-Nazi in modern times.
Enemy (The Marvel Family)- Captain Nazi most typically fights Captain Marvel, Jr., and is responsible for crippling Freddy Freeman.
Total: Abilities: 80 / Skills: 26--13 / Advantages: 8 / Powers: 20 / Defenses: 12 (134)
-Captain Nazi is one of the first big super-villains of the Golden Age of Comics, and a literal actual NAZI SUPERVILLAIN created at the same time as the actual Nazi party, and is kinda sadly forgotten about, rendered a forgotten Jobber by today's standards. He was given powers by his Nazi father, a scientist who made him the "perfect specimen" to fight on behalf of Hitler and the Fourth Reich. He was given super-strength and durability, and had a "special gas" administered that allowed him to fly. He is sent to battle superheroes by Hitler, and fights both Captain Marvel & Bulletman, escaping after he fails to kill them.
-However, in his second appearance, published that same month, another fight with Marvel sees him attack two innocent bystanders- an old man is killed, but the man's grandson Freddy Freeman is merely crippled. A saddened Marvel promptly chooses to share his powers with Freddy, turning him into Captain Marvel, Jr. Freddy then defeats Captain Nazi himself. Captain Nazi turns into a recurring foe for Freddy, given this link, but also joins Mister Mind's Monster Society of Evil. He last appearas in Golden Age comics in
Captain Marvel, Jr. #14 in 1944, skipping out just as the war finally turns against the real Nazis for good.
-Captain Nazi reappears in the 1970s DC books, but only sporadically. Given that the War had ended and all, the character was kind of vastly out of date. Roy & Dann Thomas reimagine him in 1988, naming him Lester Abernathy, a young Neo-Nazi given the powers by "The Sons of Valhalla"... but this version made no further appearances and was retconned out of existence only six years later by Jerry Ordway. The new origin story is that Captain Nazi was a Golden Age villain, and fought the Fawcett Comics heroes of old (now not including Captain Marvel, who was a modern hero), but placed himself in suspended animation so he could revive the Third Reich when he returned. This version keeps his maiming of Freddy and murder of Freddy's grandfather, but as a third-tier Marvel Family villain, he doesn't matter much and is mostly forgotten.
-His next listed appearance is all the way in
Villains United, where Gail Simone uses him as a humble goon working for Luthor and his "Society"- I particularly remember the bit where he's a prison guard of the Secret Six, and ends up with a half-dozen pain-enhancing syringes shoved into his eyeballs by Catman. With cybernetic eyes, he reappears in
Batman working for Black Mask, but is killed by The Red Hood, who jams tasers into them. Later, he returns fighting Black Adam, and suggests that he's not even human- he is the living avatar of National Socialism. He shows up with "The Fourth Reich" in
JSA, executing the family of Hank "Steel" Heywood, but their actions leave a new Citizen Steel with powers.
-Captain Nazi is extremely powerful, given he has to fight the Marvel Family, but is a brute and a moron. He was more of a conniving foe in the Golden Age, but in any modern comic I've read, he's a simple-minded goon and nothing more. Overall I made him a PL 10.5 powerhouse- enough to challenge Freddy (who is PL 11) one on one, but not enough that a team of superheroes or villains can't curbstomp him.
