Issue(s): Captain America #307
Cover Date: Jul 85
Title: "Stop making sense"
Credits:
Mark Gruenwald - Writer
Paul Neary - Penciler
Dennis Janke - Inker
Mike Carlin - Editor

Review/plot:
Mark Gruenwald starts off with an oddball twist. Captain America is barely in this issue, which is largely a Nomad solo story. That's weird enough, but this issue also introduces Madcap.

He's a real strange one. Seemingly invulnerable...

...supernaturally acrobatic, and in possession of a bubble gun that makes his targets crazy. Nomad is unable to stop him...

...and Madcap basically withdraws from the scene at random. The event does cost Nomad his newly acquired job as a grocery bagger.

No origin is given for Madcap, but we do see him entering a costume shop to get his weird outfit for the first time. He's a normal looking guy without the mask.

Also in this issue, we see three of Gruenwald's Serpent Squad infiltrating the apartment of their former partner, Sidewinder.

Oh, the cover promises "A dramatic look back at.. The Invaders of World War II!". Here it is, in its entirety:

Too weird to rate! Madcap seems impossibly powerful, but this is only a set-up issue. Neary's depictions of Madcap are certainly nice.

Quality Rating: C+

Historical Significance Rating: 4 - first Madcap

Chronological Placement Considerations: This issue begins with Captain America still in London, getting a lift to the airport from Captain Britain. After Cap gets on the plane, it's the last we see of him in this issue. He'll next appear in Secret Wars II #1, still on the plane.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

The title refers to the Talking Heads concert film.

I really hate this story at first Madcap is just a believous and very crazy man not a criminal neither a supervillain, but he is not good he shoots bubbles in people
to make them deranged and idiots, ( oh which good pain a bubble weapon carefully stupid ) and Cap America tried to stop this madman believing in madness and he shouts his tongue BERK what pig ! But you think he is like Joker not very well if Joker likes laughing and pranksting he is also terryfing, a true criminal beyond his motivations and prince of diabolic anarchy with murders, no freedom except for meaningless, and his weapons are more creepies and can really hurt, more he likes manipulating and killing he also likes good tricks as weapons He is evil, smart despite his madness then Madcap is lame and not good

Fnord12,in the recent deadpool annual madcap was rectonned as the voice in his head. So will you do behind the scene appearances when we get there.

Doomsday, i haven't read that and don't intend to get to it any time soon. I'll have to wait until i get to there or see if the MCP makes a change beforehand. From your description it seems less like a behind-the-scenes appearance and more that any Madcap appearance should really be a Deadpool appearance? I'll have to see how that was done.

Doomsday, from what I saw of the wiki entry on Madcap, it was only after Thor fought both Deadpool & Madcap, that the changes occured -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madcap_(comics)
"Prior to the Secret Invasion, Madap once again encounters Deadpool, and in the midst of an altercation with Daredevil and Thor, Thor's lightning reduces the two to a large pile of ash. Though it initially seems that only Deadpool regenerates and survives, he eventually realizes the two actually regenerated as one being, with Madcap becoming one of the "voices" within Deadpool's head (explaining the appearance of a new, "extra" voice in Deadpool's appearances in Wolverine: Origins and Deadpool vol. 3). After Madcap's personality asserts itself sufficiently to use his own powers in a later altercation with Thor and Luke Cage, Deadpool convinces Madcap to manipulate the two affected heroes into tearing Deadpool's body in half, with one half regenerating fully as Deadpool, and the other as Madcap."

Right -- Madcap isn't the "little yellow boxes" voice, but rather the "typewritten comments" voice from Daniel Way's stories with Deadpool. It reminds me a bit of how the original iteration of Deathlok originally had a second, nonsense voice in his head that was written out fairly quickly.