(Fall 1943)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 60
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- ?
- Editing:
- Vince Fago
- Format:
- Standard U. S. Golden Age; Color; Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior; Saddle-Stitched
none (Table of Contents)
Captain America; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner / cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Pencils:
- Alex Schomburg
- Inks:
- Alex Schomburg
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Bucky; Toro; the Nazis [villains].
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).
Indexer Notes
Some info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Bloody Talons of the Feathered Fiends (Table of Contents)
Human Torch / comic story / 12 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Harry Fisk?; Harry Sahle?
- Inks:
- George Klein?; Edd Ashe?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Noval; The Vulture (villain, D); Boris [villain, D]; Nikki [a vulture, villain]; Mongo [villain, D].
- Synopsis:
- The Torch and Toro must stop the evil plans of the Vulture, who uses his trained birds to drop incendiary eggs on factories.
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).
Indexer Notes
Credit additions, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Kioto, the Mad Jap (Table of Contents)
Captain America / comic story / 12 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- Jack Alderman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Setgeant Duffy; Kioto (I, villain, D).
- Synopsis:
- A mad and crazed Japanese is killing American soldiers on a remote island, and dropping their bodies near an American camp. Cap and Bucky get a tip where they are being held and head out to rescue them, only to get captured themselves.
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).
Indexer Notes
Pencil revision from Al Bellman to ?. The Who's Who doesn't list Bellman as a Captain America artist. Notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Alibi For Grim Deceit (Table of Contents)
Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Carl Pfeufer
- Inks:
- Carl Pfeufer?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; Marshall Kronin (I, villain); Admiral Roeter [villain]; the Nazis (villains).
- Synopsis:
- Betty has been kidnapped by the Nazis, so Namor decides to pretend that he has joined the enemy and arrange for the Nazis to successfully stop American convoy operations in order to save her.
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).
Indexer Notes
Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
The Silver Buck (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? [masthead]
- Inks:
- ? [masthead]
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- adventure
- Characters:
- Bert; Johnnie [villain]; Pat [villain]; Pete; Lt. Reynolds.
- Synopsis:
- Bert, a civilian guard for military warehouses, counters the attempts by two individuals to get into them, one of whom lost his "lucky" dollar.
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).
Indexer Notes
Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
[The Rescue of the Partisan's Sister] (Table of Contents)
The Destroyer / comic story / 8 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bob Oksner
- Inks:
- Bob Oksner
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- The Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Frank Piraud; Ruth Piraud; Colonel von Bitters [villain].
- Synopsis:
- The Nazis have captured the sister of the French underground leader, Frank Piraud, but the Destroyer visualizes a way to stop the Nazi threat and rescue his sister.
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).
Indexer Notes
Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Captain America Badges Have Gone to War! (Table of Contents)
War Savings Stamps / advertisement / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Characters:
- Captain America; Bucky.
- Synopsis:
- Illustrated ad announcing that, for the duration of the war, no more Sentinels of Liberty badges will be produced because the metal is needed by the government to help produce ammunition, tanks, planes, guns and ships. And the Sentinels of Liberty Club is no longer accepting dimes to join until further notice, and readers are encouraged to now use those dimes to buy War Savings Stamps.
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).
Indexer Notes
Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
The Terror of Triple Destruction (Table of Contents)
The Whizzer / comic story / 8 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- Bob Oksner
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- The Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; May; Henry; Gabby; Triple Destruction (introduction; villain); Hans (Triple Destruction's aide)(introduction; villain); Triple Destruction's unnamed aide (introduction; villain).
- Synopsis:
- The Whizzer must meet the challenge of Triple Destruction, a master Nazi saboteur, who has a fiendish plan to simultaneously destroy three war plans at the same time.
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008)
- in Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1
Indexer Notes
Pencil credit revision from Al Bellman to ? and ink credit revision from Al Bellman to Bob Oksner. The Who's Who does NOT list Bellman as having ever done this strip. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
Bloody Talons of the Feathered Fiends
Human Torch -
2.
Kioto, the Mad Jap
Captain America -
3.
Alibi For Grim Deceit
Sub-Mariner -
4.
The Silver Buck
-
5.
[The Rescue of the Partisan's Sister]
The Destroyer -
6.
Captain America Badges Have Gone to War!
War Savings Stamps -
7.
The Terror of Triple Destruction
The Whizzer
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Jim Van Dore
- Lou Mazzella
- Per Sandell
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Lou Mougin
- Tony R. Rose
- Craig Delich
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