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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published November 1941
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Joe Simon
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.

Cover Details

Characters Captain America; Bucky; V: Nazis.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Al Gabriele
Letters typeset
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Captain America Contents"

Characters Captain America; Bucky
Synopsis Illustrated table of contents, listing features, some story titles and synopses, plus an ad for All-Winners #2 [with cover illo].
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Letters typeset
Notes Most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

13 page Captain America story "The Strange Mystery of the Ruby of the Nile and Its Heritage of Horror"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Betty Ross; Sergeant Duffy; Marina Bates; Bates [D]; Parker [D]; Biggs [the butler]; V: Ra the Avenger (I, Henry Sanders).
Synopsis Cap and Bucky have to overcome a curse and an evil Pharaoh associated with the famed Ruby of the Nile before it can kill others.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

11 page Captain America story "Murder Stalks the Maneuvers"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Clodd; Colonel Carter; Colonel Williams; V: Major Pierre Dumort (I).
Synopsis Steve and Bucky are out on a war games training exercise and are shocked to see that someone has tampered with the ammunition and the troops are using the real thing against each other.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008),

5 page Headline Hunter, Foreign Correspondent story "The Strange Riddle of the Plague of Death"

Characters "Headline" Hunter [Jerry Hunter]; Villains: un-named Nazi leader and his gang.
Synopsis Headline discovers a plot to poison the American people by a Nazi gang that their own farm to stores, knowing that the food is deadly.
Genre crime
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

2 page Sentinels of Liberty Secret Club News activity

Characters Captain America; Bucky
Synopsis This two-page spread includes the usual illoed ciolumns "A Message From Captain America" and "Bucky's Column", tells members that the Sentinels of Liberty charters are in the mail, features a coupon to join the Sentinels of Liberty and several illustrated activities [by Nugent] for readers to do.
Genre superhero
Pencils A. W. Nugent (signed); ?
Inks A.W. Nugent (signed); ?
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence, all info, credits and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

17 page Captain America story "Case of the Black Witch"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Karin Lee; V: The Black Witch (I, D, Mr. Feritt).
Synopsis After saving a young girl being attacked in a weird castle, Captain America and Bucky learn that she must spend three nights in Hagmoor Castle in order to inherit the estate from her late uncle. And they volunteer to make sure she makes it through those nights safely in spite of threats by an evil witch.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

7 page Hurricane, Master of Speed story "Carnival of Crime"

Characters Hurricane [Harry Kane]; Solidius X. "Speedy" Scriggles; V: Silky.
Synopsis Speedy decides to take in the State Fair that's come to town to make sure it's run on the up and up, and Hurricane decides to follow him, to make sure he's safe if it isn't.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

2 page Captain America and Young Allies text story "The Young Allies Deal a Blow for Justice"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; The Young Allies: Bucky Barnes, Jefferson van Smythe, Tubby Tinkle; Knuckles [Percy Bartwell], Whitewash (I); Betty Ross; Villains: un-named gangsters.
Synopsis Knuckles runs across Betty Ross, having been taken prisoner by a gang of crooks, so he calls in the rest of the Young Allies, who then on Captain America to help save Betty.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008); in Young Allies 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

7 page Father Time story "Vault of Doom"

Characters Father Time [Larry Scott]; Villains: un-named gang of crooks.
Synopsis Father Time steps in when criminals begin to over-run the metropolis of New York and murder and violence substitute for law and order.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Al Avison (signed)
Inks Al Avison (signed)
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "4 Big Names!"

Characters The Human Torch; Captain America; the Vision; the Sub-Mariner; the Destroyer.
Synopsis Promotional ad for Marvel Mystery Comics #24, All-Winners #2, Mystic Comics #6, and USA Comics #2, complete with covers for each.
Genre superhero
Pencils various
Inks various
Letters typeset
Notes Found on the inside back cover. Sequence, all info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).