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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published December 1941
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Joe Simon
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 6-6-09. Inks credit from Greg Theakston.

Cover Details

Characters Captain America; Bucky; The Black Talon.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Jack Kirby (?)
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 6-6-09. Inks credit from Greg Theakston.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

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

Characters Captain America; Bucky; The Black Talon.
Synopsis Contents page, listing all the features with brief story recaps and a few illos.
Genre superhero; information
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Letters typeset
Notes Found on the inside front cover. Some info added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

11 page Captain America story "The White Death"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; The White Death (I; Manuel Perez)(villain), Matthew Clinton (I)(villain); Lucy Harrow; Jim Slade [D]; Phillip Avery [D].
Synopsis Cap and Bucky must tackle a white cloaked, hideous figure that stalks the halls of the mansion of the late Josiah Harrow....a figure that has chosen the duo as its next target for death!
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Mystery Comics (1999 series) #1 (December 1999); in Marvel Mastworks" Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

13 page Captain America story "The Man Who Could Not Die"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Detective Mahoney; Betty Dean; Sergeant Duffy; Nick Pinto (I, D)(villain), Tony Scarlatti (I, D)(villain); an un-named doctor (I, D)(villain); Spike [villain]; Muggsy [villain].
Synopsis When criminal Nick Pinto was strapped into the electric chair and executed, Cap and Bucky are more than a little concerned when another criminal, responsible for sending Pinto to his death, calls Police HQ with his last breath and tells them that Pinto has just fatally shot him.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Syd Shores
Notes Ink credit from Greg Theakston. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

5 page Headline Hunter, Foreign Correspondent story "Death in the Alps"

Characters Headline Hunter [Jerry Hunter]; Shultz [D]; von Groser; Hans [villain]; un-named masked leader [villain, D].
Synopsis Headline Hunter heads for Switzerland in response to many strange accidents that are occuring there, but when he arrives he has to stop another "strange" accident that he gets in the middle of.
Genre crime
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

2 page text story "Dead Man's Ring"

Characters 7 un-named Indians; Paul Martin [villain, D].
Synopsis In years past, much gold had been buried with Chief Little Eagle. Now Paul Martin, having murdered the only living man who knew the location of this treasure, was attempting to locate the burial spot.
Genre adventure
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

18 page Captain America story "The Case of the Black Talon"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Rafael Miller [D]; Sergeant Duffy; Oliver Simms [D]; The Black Talon (Pascal Horta; I & O, villain); Red [villain]; Slugger [villain]; Strangler Burns [villain, D]; Dr. Steiner.
Synopsis Cap and Bucky have a devilish time in cornering an insane murderer who, forced by fate to paint horrendous portraits, decides to paint these type of paintings of the men he intends to murder!
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Syd Shores
Notes Ink credits from Greg Theakston. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

7 page Hurricane, Master of Speed story "Crime Goes to Press"

Characters Hurricane [Harry Kane]; Mr. Brown; John Smithers [villain, D].
Synopsis The Master of Spped decides to get a job at "The Daily Star," a newspaper whose editor has been threatened and roughed up because he writes articles about the town's racketeers.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

1 page Sentinels of Liberty Secret Club News filler

Characters Captain America; Bucky.
Synopsis Pages features Captain America's special codes to be used to enter and exit all Sentinel club meetings as well as answering a letter from a Sentinel member. Bucky warns all Sentinels to be on the alert for possible enemy air attacks on the U.S. Page ends with usual coupon and appeal for people to join the Sentinels of Liberty.
Genre informational
Letters ?, most typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

7 page Father Time story "The Bombs of Doom"

Characters Father Time [Larry Scott]; John Peters [D]; Senator Rogers [D]; Zarpo (villain; I, D).
Synopsis After having his invention [a bomb that would detonate after being near a human being for 5 minutes] turned down by the government as "silly," a crazed inventor decides to use that weapon against the government.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Al Avison (signed)
Inks Al Avison (signed)
Notes Story title taken from the TOC. Some info anmd synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

1 page Marvel Mystery Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "As New and Exciting As Today's News!"

Characters Sub-Mariner; Human Torch; Toro
Synopsis Promotional ad for Marvel Mystery Comics #26, reprinting the cover.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Letters ?; most typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

1 page Mystic Comics advertisement

Characters The Destroyer; Adolf Hitler.
Synopsis Promitional ad for Mystic Comics #7 with cover reproduced.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Syd Shores?
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 6-6-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).