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Rick Jones
Ordinary human from the Marvel comic books, who deliberately and idiotically drove onto a bomb testing ground in New Mexico and was thus was inadvertently responsible for creating the Hulk. He later helped keep the Hulk in line and became an honorary Avenger. He was also briefly Captain America's sidekick. Then, because if you hang around superheroes long enough, you either get powers or killed, Jones somehow ends up sharing a body with Captain Marvel, no thanks to Kree technology Nega-Band shenanigans.
A self-taught folk/rock 'n' roll singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, for a few years, Jones pursued a music career, aided by booking agent Mordecai Boggs.
It begins in *Captain Marvel* issue #18 (September 1969), with Jones talked into sitting in with a café band, where he meets Boggs for the first time.
In *Captain Marvel* issue #22 (September 1972) Jones meets fellow club-singer Lou-Ann Savannah, and they become a couple just in time for him to suffer the effects of aforementioned Kree technology Nega-Band shenanigans, and her to take him to her uncle Prof. Benjamin Savannah, who just happens to have a positive photon-ray handy with which to treat him.
In *Captain Marvel* issue #34 (September 1974), a completely redesigned Boggs pairs Jones up with Rachel "Dandy" Dandridge and sends them on tour as Rick 'N' Dandy.
