(March 1941)
- Volume:
- 2
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 68
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Timely Publications
- Editing:
- Joe Simon
- Format:
- Standard Golden Age U.S.; Full Color: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior; Saddle-Stitched; Was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS published by monthly Timely Publications, Meriden, Conn. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Meriden, Conn. Entire contents copyright 1940 by Timely Publications, 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1941 issue Yearly subscription $1.00. Printed in the U.S.A.
Meet Captain America (Table of Contents)
Captain America / cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Adolf Hitler
- Reprinted:
- in Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series) #400
- in Marvel Milestone Edition: Captain America No. 1 (Marvel, 1995 series) #[nn]
- in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2
- in Captain America: The Classic Years (Marvel, 1998 series) #[nn]
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #2
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America 70th Anniversary Magazine (Marvel, 2011 series) #20
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America: The Legacy of Captain America (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
..Table of Contents (Table of Contents)
Captain America / table of contents / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Simon
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Red Skull; Rathkone; Omar
- Reprinted:
- in Captain America: The Classic Years (Marvel, 1998 series) #[nn] (June 1998)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
TOC page introduces the stories and features in text and art for this issue.
Some info added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
Case No. 1. Meet Captain America (Table of Contents)
Captain America / comic story / 7.5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Al Liederman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers] (introduction, origin); Bucky [Bucky Barnes] (introduction); President Franklin D. Roosevelt; General Phillips (unnamed, introduction); J. Arthur Grover [J. Edgar Hoover]; Agent X-13 [Cynthia Glass] (unnamed, introduction); Professor Reinstein (introduction, dies); Heinz Kruger (unnamed, introduction, dies)
- Synopsis:
- The Army is looking for a solution to the threat the Axis Powers pose to the people of America, and they discover the secret answer to their prayers: a super-soldier serum that will create an army of super soldiers! However, only one man receives the serum before it and its creator are destroyed: Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America!
- Reprinted:
- in Great Comic Book Heroes, The (Dial Press, 1965 series) #[nn]
- in Marvel Milestone Edition: Captain America No. 1 (Marvel, 1995 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America: The Classic Years (Marvel, 1998 series) #[nn] (June 1998)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier (Marvel, 2010 series) #1
- in Captain America 70th Anniversary Magazine (Marvel, 2011 series) #20 (January 2011)
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn] (May 2011)
- in Captain America: The Legacy of Captain America (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Inking credit from Joe Simon, via Greg Theakston.
Synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
[Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty] (Table of Contents)
Captain America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America; Bucky; Betty Ross
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Milestone Edition: Captain America No. 1 (Marvel, 1995 series) #[nn]
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America 70th Anniversary Magazine (Marvel, 2011 series) #20 (January 2011)
- in Captain America: The Legacy of Captain America (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn] (March 2011)
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn] (May 2011)
Indexer Notes
An advertisement inviting readers to join Captain America's "Sentinels of Liberty".
[Case No. 2] (Table of Contents)
Captain America / comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Simon
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Betty Ross; Sando [Von Krantz] (introduction, villain); Omar (introduction, villain)
- Synopsis:
- Captain America and Bucky set out to solve the riddle of the connection between a wave of sabotage sweeping the U.S. defense industries and a strange little man who predicted it would happen!
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Milestone Edition: Captain America No. 1 (Marvel, 1995 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America: The Classic Years (Marvel, 1998 series) #[nn] (June 1998)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Pencil credit from Greg Theakston.
Synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
Title taken from Table of Contents.
Captain America and the Soldiers' Soup (Table of Contents)
Captain America / text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Simon ? (illustrations); Jack Kirby ? (illustrations)
- Inks:
- Joe Simon ? (illustrations); Jack Kirby ? (illustrations)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; The Crusher (villain); Slinky (villain)
- Synopsis:
- Cap and Bucky uncover a plot to poison an entire Army post by saboteurs.
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Art credits and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
[The Chess Board of Death] (Table of Contents)
Captain America / comic story / 16 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Simon
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Admiral Perkins (dies); Sgt. Mike Duffy (introduction); Rathcone (introduction, villain); Herr Kameleon (introduction, villain); Strangler (introduction, villain)
- Synopsis:
- A weird figure has carved wooden chess figures of people who must be eliminated before he launches the mightiest blitzkrieg the would has ever seen. Unfortunately for him, two of those figures are Captain America and Bucky!
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Milestone Edition: Captain America No. 1 (Marvel, 1995 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America: The Classic Years (Marvel, 1998 series) #[nn] (June 1998)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Pencils credit from Greg Theakston.
Synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
Title taken from Table of Contents.
The Riddle of the Red Skull (Table of Contents)
Captain America / comic story / 14 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Ed Herron
- Pencils:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Simon
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Red Skull [George Maxon] (villain, introduction); Major Croy (dies); General Manor (dies)
- Synopsis:
- Cap and Bucky come face to face with a villain who scares the wits out of his victims, then injects them with a poison that convinces others that he has killed them with his eyes!
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Milestone Edition: Captain America No. 1 (Marvel, 1995 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America: The Classic Years (Marvel, 1998 series) #[nn] (June 1998)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Marvel Milestones: Doom, Sub-Mariner & Red Skull (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn]
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2006)
- in Best of Simon and Kirby, The (Titan Books, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Script and pencils credit from Greg Theakston.
Synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
[USA Comics] (Table of Contents)
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Sequence added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
Promotional advertisement for USA Comics and its features, which goes on sale about January 20th.
Murder Ltd. (Table of Contents)
Hurricane / comic story / 10 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Jack Kirby
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Hurricane [Mike Cury] (introduction); Pluto (villain); Piggy Perroni (villain)
- Synopsis:
- Alarmed at the gangland murders in a coastal town, Hurricane decides to "join" the gang in order to be in a position to halt their crimes.
- Reprinted:
- in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2 [1 page excerpt]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Greg Theakston.
Synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
The story is a reworked Mercury (the character from Red Raven Comics) story.
Stories from the Dark Ages (Table of Contents)
Tuk Caveboy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Jack Kirby
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- barbarian
- Characters:
- Tuk (introduction, origin); Phaidor (introduction, dies in flashback); Rhaya (introduction, dies in flashback); Tanir (introduction, villain, dies); Goreks (villain, introduction, dies)
- Synopsis:
- Before his death, wise old Ak relates to Tuk about how he was the survivor of the hairless ones who once came to the jungle. Later, he meets up with Tanir, and they decide to team up and travel together.
- Reprinted:
- in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2 [1 page excerpt]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
- in Captain America Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2011 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Greg Theakston.
Synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-08.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
..Table of Contents
Captain America -
2.
Case No. 1. Meet Captain America
Captain America -
3.
[Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty]
Captain America -
4.
[Case No. 2]
Captain America -
5.
Captain America and the Soldiers' Soup
Captain America -
6.
[The Chess Board of Death]
Captain America -
7.
The Riddle of the Red Skull
Captain America -
8.
[USA Comics]
-
9.
Murder Ltd.
Hurricane -
10.
Stories from the Dark Ages
Tuk Caveboy
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- Tony R. Rose
- Steve Jenner
- Mike Nielsen
- Patrick Lemaire
- Jim Van Dore
- Darci
- Ramon Schenk
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- Tony R. Rose
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