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Madcap

Sometimes you have to wait a few decades before you really get a chance to shine. This is what happened to the character I chose for my 7 th custom figurine—the indestructible clown Madcap. Madcap premiered in 1985 in the pages of Captain America #307, written by Mark Gruenwald and drawn by Paul Neary. He came out of nowhere, boisterous and flamboyant, dancing in the streets in a particolored costume and wielding a toy bubble gun. And wherever he went, people who saw him would immediately began acting just as crazy as he did, leading to mass riots in the streets. Madcap's first foray into public insanity, from 1985. Cap’s protégé Nomad quickly tracked down the mysterious newcomer and learned his origin: he had been an ordinary, religious man until a truck carrying an experimental A.I.M. chemical crashed into his church van, killing everyone aboard except him. In despair at the loss of his family, he tried to kill himself too, but soon found that nothing could kill him