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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published Summer 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.

Cover Details

Characters Captain America; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Bucky Barnes; Toro; Nazis [villains].
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Letters typeset
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008); in Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

12 page Human Torch story "The Gorilla Men"

Characters Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Carl; Bashon and his gorilla-men (I, villains).
Synopsis The Flaming Duo must battle the mad Bashon, a scientific genius who has invented all types of planes, tanks and machinery that he is using to level cities, all with the help of ape men that he has created from the bones of prehistoric people.
Genre superhero
Pencils Edd Asch; Harry Sahle?
Inks Edd Asch
Notes Edd Asch credits added by Craig Delich; the Who's Who reports that Harry Sahle only did pencils on this strip. Notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Captain America story "The Case of the Sinister Hun"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Baron Von Widemouth (I, villain, D); the Nazis (villains, many D).
Synopsis Cap and Bucky struggle to stop a Nazi Baron from using aerial torpedos on the Panama Canal.
Genre superhero
Pencils Ernie Hart [page 2]; Jimmy Thompson
Inks Ernie Hart [page 2]; Jimmy Thompson
Notes Hart art credit added by Craig Delich; note, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

2 page text story "Introduction"

Characters Sheriff Cole; Captain Bright; Hardy; Spike Conlan[villain].
Synopsis Down-on-his-luck flyer Hardy is hired to fly a cargo of coffins to the U.S. from Mexico, eventually discovering that they held spies.
Genre aviation; adventure
Pencils ? [header]
Inks ? [header]
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Namor Cracks the Whip"

Characters Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Colonel Brusch [villain, I, D]; the Nazis [villains, all D].
Synopsis Namor lands on the Cretan coast and discovers an airfield full of British bombers --- being serviced by the Nazis for an attack on the Dardanelles, in hopes of convincing the Turks that the British are responsible.
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer?
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

11 page The Destroyer story "The Flight From Peril"

Characters The Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Gloria; Captain Krause (I, villain, also called Storm); the Nazis (villains, many D).
Synopsis The Destroyer saves the life of a girl carrying important papers, when the Nazis intervene and a struggle ensues to determine ownership of those papers.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

6 page The Whizzer story "The Bakery Spy Ring"

Characters Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; Mr. Gray; the Nazis [villains, some D].
Synopsis The Whizzer has to prevent the Nazis from sabotaging a newly invented high explosive armor piercing artillery shell.
Genre superhero
Pencils Alan Mandel
Notes First lines of the story read: "Sabotage--? or accident? What caused the tremendous explosion that blew up the huge sixteen inch gun testing the new high explosive armor piercing shell at the army proving grounds??" Art credits revised from George Klein [a] to Alan Mandel [p] and unknown inker by Craig Delich. Note, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008); in Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1