(May 1944)

Marvel, 1941 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
60
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1944-03-13
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Complete Photo Story Corp.
Editing
Vince Fago (editor)

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 2.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Captain America / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg)
Inks
Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg)
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes; Japanese soldiers
Reprints
Keywords
bondage; World War II
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Castle of Doom (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain America / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Syd Shores (credited)
Inks
Vince Alascia (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Synopsis
A hundred Japanese escape from internment camps and build an airbase in Death Valley with stolen parts. They plan to conduct bombing raids on American cities, but Cap and Bucky along with some help from a desert miner named Death Valley Pete, touch off the explosives located in a mine under their base and eliminate them.

Murder For Profit (Table of Contents: 2)

Human Torch / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al Avison
Inks
Allen Bellman
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Dagger (villain, introduction)

Frozen Death (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain America / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Don Rico
Inks
Al Gabriele
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cellmen (villain, introduction, death)

Indexer Notes

this is NOT the same story as last issue, but it DOES have the same title!

The Sarge's Song (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

The Peril of the Past (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain America / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Binder
Pencils
Syd Shores (credited)
Inks
Vince Alascia (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Dr. Emil Natas (villain, introduction, death); Phao Na Tash (villain, introduction, death); Diablo Natas (villain, introduction, death); Hercules (earlier incarnation of Cap, introduction); Sir Amerigo (earlier incarnation of Cap, introduction)

Indexer Notes

Natas predicts they will meet in a fourth incarnation

The Mystery of the Coin (Table of Contents: 6)

Let's Play Detective / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Allen Bellman
Inks
Allen Bellman
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
detective-mystery
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Captain America
  2. 1. Castle of Doom
    Captain America
  3. 2. Murder For Profit
    Human Torch
  4. 3. Frozen Death
    Captain America
  5. 4. The Sarge's Song
  6. 5. The Peril of the Past
    Captain America
  7. 6. The Mystery of the Coin
    Let's Play Detective
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  • Henry Andrews
  • Bill Borre
  • Keith Chandler
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Del Gruber
  • Richard Thomson
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