ANSWER
Real Name: David Ferrari
Identity/Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Terrorist;
formerly S.H.I.E.L.D.
agent
Group Membership: None;
formerly S.H.I.E.L.D.;
formerly U.S.
military
Affiliations: Crimson
Dynamo (Soviet loyalist), Connie Ferrari
Enemies: Anton,
Captain America (Steve Rogers), Dmitri,
Nick Fury, Mama,
Papa,
S.H.I.E.L.D. (Sharon Carter, others)
Known Relatives: Connie Ferrari (sister),
unidentified father (see comments)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Khamiskan
First Appearance: (David Ferrari, seen in a
photo):
Captain America III#20 (August, 1999);
(David Ferrari, fully seen): Captain America III#41
(May, 2001);
(behind-the-scenes, first referred to as the
Answer): Captain America
III#42 (June, 2001);
(fully seen as the Answer): Captain America III#43
(July, 2001)
Powers/Abilities: The Answer had enhanced
physical
attributes that allowed him to go toe-to-toe with the Super-Soldier
Serum-enhanced Captain America.
History:
(Captain America III#20
(fb) – BTS) – David Ferrari grew
up loving America like his sister Connie, values instilled in them by
their
father. Despite being a little too sensitive for military service,
David was
forced into the military by his father.
(Captain America III#41
(fb) –
BTS) – David Ferrari secretly joined S.H.I.E.L.D.
(Captain America III#43
(fb) –
BTS) – David’s family was told that he had died in a military hazing
accident
to cover up David’s secret status as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. As part of
S.H.I.E..L.D., David
was chosen to join S.H.I.E.L.D.’s elite forces and given physical
enhancements via
the Omega Compound chemicals. Angry that they only wanted a
super-soldier to
carry out their missions, David deserted S.H.I.E.L.D., stealing mind
control drugs
from their psych unit when he left.
(Captain America III#41
(fb) –
BTS) – Happy to let the world think he was dead, David traveled to the
unstable
former Soviet nation of Khamiskan.
(Captain America III#43
(fb) –
BTS) – Continuing to allow the world to think him dead, David Ferrari
began
calling himself the Answer and plotted to control the world by using
weapons
left in Khamiskan after the USA had toppled its chaotic government.
(Captain America
III#41) – Nick
Fury tracked David to Khamiskan, where he confronted David. When Fury
asked him why he wanted to be thought dead, David replied that there was work to
be done
and that Fury was in his way. David then fired the gun he
was
carrying.
(Captain America III#43
(fb) –
BTS) – David administered the stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. mind control drugs to
Nick Fury to
bring Fury under his control.
(Captain America III#42
(fb)) –
When Fury disappeared off S.H.I.E.L.D.’s radar, Sharon Carter contacted
Captain
America to rescue Fury, as per Fury’s request. Before Cap left, Sharon
warned
Captain America about a man calling himself the Answer, who was trying
to
exploit the unstable nature of Khamiskan.
(Captain America III#42
– BTS) – Upon
hearing that Captain America was in Khamiskan, the Answer ordered the
Crimson
Dynamo and the brainwashed Nick Fury to capture Captain America.
(Captain America
III#43) – Taken captive
by Crimson Dynamo and the brainwashed Fury, Captain America awoke to
find
himself face-to-face with the man Sharon Carter had warned him about:
the
Answer. Placing the captive Captain America above a nuclear missile
silo with
his arms and legs tied to tractors, the Answer revealed his plot of
world
domination. After Captain America tried to reason with him, the Answer
ordered the tractors
to pull Captain America apart. The Answer then injected Nick Fury with
the
antidote to the mind control drugs so that Fury could be conscious for
Cap’s
death. The Khamiskan family Captain America had earlier rescued
came to
his aid, freeing him from his ropes with an arrow. While Cap continued
to free
himself of the ropes, Nick Fury turned the tables on the Answer,
hitting the
Crimson Dynamo with a tractor. The Answer then revealed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s
part in
granting him physical enhancements and battled Captain America and Fury himself.
When Captain America
punched the Answer up against the nuclear silo, a crazed Answer pulled
out the
nuclear detonator but Captain America knocked it from David’s hand with his shield.
After
bringing David into custody, his sister Connie was brought in to see
him and
she learned of David’s faked death.
Comments: Created by Dan Jurgens and
Bob Layton.
Exactly what enhancements
David was given by S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Omega Compound are unclear. He
appeared to
have enhanced physical attributes similar to Cap’s Super-Soldier Serum
but it
was never specifically stated. While it seemed to be hinted at, but not
outright
stated, it appeared that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s treatments were what drove
David mad, which
would explain why S.H.I.E.L.D. was keeping such a watchful eye on him
in Khamiskan.
Connie Ferrari referred
to her
father as “the Great Santini” in Captain America III#20, a reference to the 1979 movie The Great Santini, which featured Robert Duvall as a decorated fighter pilot/harsh, abusive father.
--Minor Irritant
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Answer has no known connections to
- Answer
(Aaron Nicholson), criminal
able to temporarily develop whatever ability needed for any situation @
Spectacular Spider-Man I#92
- or any other "Answer" characters
Dimitri,
Papa, Mama and Anton were Khamiskan natives and lived a poor life in
the
war-torn nation. When Captain America arrived in Khamiskan looking for
the
missing Nick Fury, Cap found the family crowded around a fire, with
Mama very
sick. After convincing them that he was there to help, Captain America gave Mama
some
penicillin and gave another dosage to Papa to give Mama later. Captain America’s
aid was
interrupted by the Crimson Dynamo, who had been sent there to capture
Cap alongside
a brainwashed Nick Fury. Once Cap had been strapped to tractors above a
nuclear
silo, Papa, Anton and Dimitri aided in freeing Captain America when Papa fired an
arrow
that broke the rope holding Cap’s left arm. Once the Answer had been
defeated,
Papa and his family were rescued from Khamiskan by S.H.I.E.L.D. and
brought to
America, where they received medical care and were offered a new life.
--Captain America
III#42 (43
images: (without ads)
Captain America III#43, p7, pan1 (Answer, main image)
Captain America III#20, p6, pan1 (young David Ferrari photo)
Captain America III#42, p11, pan1 (Dimitri, Papa, Mama & Anton)
Appearances:
Captain America III#20 (August, 1999) – Mark Waid (writer), Andy Kubert
(art), Jesse
Delperdang (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Captain America III#41 (May, 2001) – Dan Jurgens (writer, art), Bob
Layton
(inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Captain America III#42 (June, 2001) – Dan Jurgens (writer, pencils),
Bob Layton
(inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Captain America III#43 (July, 2001) – Dan Jurgens (writer), Dave Ross
(pencils), Bob Layton (inks), Andrew Lis (asst editor), Bobbi Chase
(exec
editor)
Last updated:
07/15/13
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