(April 1941)

Marvel, 1941 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1941-02-10
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Timely Comics Inc.
Editing
Joe Simon (editor)

Issue Notes

CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS published monthly by Timely Comics, Inc., Meriden, Conn. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Meriden, Conn. Entire contents copyright 1941 by Timely Comics, Inc., 330 W. 42nd St., N. Y., N. Y. Vol. 2 No. 2, April 1941 issues. Yearly subscription $1.00. Printed in U.S.A.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2.
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Trapped in the Nazi Stronghold! (Table of Contents)

Captain America / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Simon (see notes)
Inks
Joe Simon (see notes)
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Simon (logo design, see notes)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Adolf Hitler (villain)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Greg Theakston.

Joe Simon logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting Comics Logos C #1: CAPTAIN AMERICA on 27 June 2021.

Captain America (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Joe Simon
Letters
?

Characters
Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Adolf Hitler
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Table of Contents page with text and art re the stories and features that are contained inside the issue.

Some information and synopsis added by Craig Delich on June 9, 2008.

The Ageless Orientals Who Wouldn't Die!! (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain America / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils
Jack Kirby (see notes); Reed Crandall (see notes)
Inks
Reed Crandall (see notes)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Betty Ross; Benson (villain, introduction); J. Finley (villain, introduction, death); Oriental giants (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis
Cap and Bucky must battle huge oriental giants that came from Tibet, and the master that controlled them, to prevent widespread carnage and destruction.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Ink credit from Greg Theakston.

Pencils credit from Roger Hill, who says, "I could easily see that Reed did some of the pencilings because certain faces looked just like Crandall faces. And you don't do that when you're inking someone else's pencils."

Synopsis added by Craig Delich June 9, 2008.

[A Message from Captain America] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Sentinels of Liberty / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Trapped in the Nazi Stronghold (Table of Contents: 4)

Captain America / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils
Joe Simon (see notes); Jack Kirby (see notes)
Inks
Joe Simon
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Sergeant Duffy (unnamed); Hermann Göring (villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); Henry Baldwin; Agent 3-21 (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis
Cap and Bucky cross the ocean to challenge the fury of Nazi guns and dive bombing Stukas, staging a two-man Blitz in the stronghold of Hitler himself, as they effect a daring rescue!
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pencil credits from Greg Theakston.

Synopsis added by Craig Delich June 9, 2008.

The Wax Statue That Struck Death (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain America / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils
Joe Simon (see notes); Jack Kirby (see notes)
Inks
Joe Simon
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Sergeant Duffy (unnamed); The Wax Man [Mayor Dobbs] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis
As America's greatest statesmen vanish and die, smothered in death masks made of wax, Captain America and Bucky endeavor to bring justice as well as doom to the Wax-Man's gory dungeons.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pencil credits from Greg Theakston.

Synopsis added by Craig Delich June 9, 2008.

Short Circuit (Table of Contents: 6)

Captain America / text story / 1.66 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
superhero
Characters
Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Herr Glotz (villain)
Synopsis
Cap and Bucky stop the attempts of the Nazis to blow up the camp recreation hall from a mine shaft running underneath it.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Synopsis added by Craig Delich on June 9, 2008.

[Next month, by popular Demand--] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.34 page (report information)

The Valley of the Mist (Table of Contents: 8)

Tuk, Caveboy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils
Al Avison (see notes)
Inks
Al Gabriele (see notes)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; historical
Characters
Tuk; Tanir; Princess Eve (intrduction); King Amir (introduction); Hairy Ones (villains, introduction, death); Witches of Endor (villains, introduction)
Synopsis
Tuk and Ranir save King Amir and his people from the hairy ones, and in return, he gives directions to the pair to the famed Atlantis.
Reprints
Keywords
barbarian

Indexer Notes

Pencil and ink credits from Greg Theakston.

Synopsis added by Craig Delich on June 9, 2008.

[The Devil and the Green Plague] (Table of Contents: 9)

Hurricane, Master of Speed / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Jack Kirby (see notes)
Colors
?
Letters
Jack Kirby (see notes)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Hurricane [Michael Gray] (a.k.a. Michael Jupiter); Pluto (villain, cameo); Dr. Ralph Rand (introduction); Dr. Ruth Holden (scientist, introduction); General Ortiz (introduction, cameo); Dr. Clay (as a shrunken head, introduction, death); The Great Kepiquoatzi (villain, Jivaro's leader, introduction, death); the Jivaro headhunters (villains, introduction for all, all die); Axti (villain, a Jivaro priest, introduction, death); Xelak (villain, a porter, introduction, death)
Synopsis
Hurricane agrees to accompany the Holden expedition into the Matto Grasso, where they will join a Doctor Clay, who is battling a strange body wasting disease that is killing thousands there daily.
Reprints
Keywords
Amazon Jungle; Brazil; headhunters; Jivaros; Matto Grasso

Indexer Notes

Note: the contents page title is used as story title, and Hurricane is "Michael Gray" in this story (although he is called "Michael Jupiter" in the 8th panel on page 7). The title page refers to the story as "The Green Plague of Pluto".

Inker credit from Greg Theakston.

Letterer credit identified by Greg Theakston and later Harry Mendryk on the Jack Kirby Museum web page http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2369, 31 October 2008 (retrieved 15 December 2014).

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Trapped in the Nazi Stronghold!
    Captain America
  2. 1. Captain America
  3. 2. The Ageless Orientals Who Wouldn't Die!!
    Captain America
  4. 3. [A Message from Captain America]
    Sentinels of Liberty
  5. 4. Trapped in the Nazi Stronghold
    Captain America
  6. 5. The Wax Statue That Struck Death
    Captain America
  7. 6. Short Circuit
    Captain America
  8. 7. [Next month, by popular Demand--]
  9. 8. The Valley of the Mist
    Tuk, Caveboy
  10. 9. [The Devil and the Green Plague]
    Hurricane, Master of Speed
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Henry Andrews
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • John Censullo
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Craig Delich
  • Del Gruber
  • Dan Kocher
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mark Q
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore