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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published January 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Joe Simon
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.

Cover Details - "Hotel of Horror"

Characters Captain America; Bucky.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

1 page Captain America credits "Contents Page"

Characters Captain America; Bucky
Synopsis The page lists all the features along with brief story synopses, as well as the cover to All-Winners Comics #3.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Letters typeset
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

11 page Captain America story "Spy Ambush"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Countess Mara (villain; I); Franz (villain).
Synopsis Cap and Bucky face the unparalled fury of a female Nazi agent, bent on capturing America's only model of the new rapid fire grenade gun for Hitler.
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 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #9; in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

13 page Captain America story "Hotel of Horror"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Netman (I; Charley Boswell; villain); Miss Wallace.
Synopsis An avowed 5th Columnist uses a city celebration to lure Cap and Bucky to it, so that he can convince the good Captain to join his organization....or die!
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Names on hotel register on page 1 include Mike Sekowsky, Syd Shores, Don Rico, etc.; story takes place in Gotham City. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #11; in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

5 page Headline Hunter story "A Sinister Scoop"

Characters Headline Hunter [Jerry Hunter]; Reginald Whitney; Will Jenks [Wilhelm von Logor; villain].
Synopsis A Nazi agent, posing as a newspaper reporter, to prevent Headline from getting an exclusive story from a man who had just visited Moscow.
Genre crime
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Notes Story title taken from the contents page. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

2 page text story "All in a Day's Work"

Characters Perry Ashford; General Mayvell; Matrshall Korodonsky; un-named Nazi Officer and his men [villains].
Synopsis Perry volunteers to get through enemy lines alive in order to deliver an important message to the Russian High Command in Moscow.
Genre adventure
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

16 page Captain America story "The Phantom Hound of Cardiff Moor"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Thaddeus Duffy; Betty Dean; Senor Ramos [death]; Miss Primm; Dr. Amos Willard; Mary Scott; The Hound of Cardiff Moor (introduction; Murdock; villain).
Synopsis Cap solves the mystery of Cardiff Manor and a "ghost" dog, used by the only living relative of the family that once owned the manor.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Oddity: Sgt. Duffy's first name in this story is Thaddeus, yet in earlier Cap stories, he is called Mike. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6; in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

1 page Sentinels of Liberty Secret Club News filler

Characters Captain America
Synopsis In this monthly club page, Captain America first reviews a letter written in to him by one of the readers, then Bucky provides Club members with their monthly passwords. Finally, there is a promotional ad encouraging readers to join the Sentinels of Liberty if they haven't done so.
Genre superhero
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

7 page Hurricane story "The Skyscraper Plot"

Characters Hurricane [Harry Kane]; Speedy; Lionel van Devanter (villain); Bill Slade; Grant (villain);
Synopsis An unscrupulous construction company owner seeks to put his competition out of business, but not legitimately!
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas
Notes Story title taken from the contents page. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

1 page Marvel Mystery Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "Fight Fire With Fire!"

Characters The Human Torch; Toro
Synopsis Promotional ad encouraging readers to pick up their copy of Marvel Mystery Comics #27, whose cover is reproduced.
Genre superhero
Pencils Lee King (signed)
Inks Lee King (signed)
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Unbeatable Three!"

Characters The Destroyer; Captain Terror; The Thunderer.
Synopsis Illustrated promotional ad, encouraging readers to pick up the latest issues of Mystic, Daring and U.S.A. Comics.
Genre superhero
Letters ?; most typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).

7 page Father Time story "Beware the Man Who Could Forecast Doom"

Characters Father Time [Larry Scott]; General John Peters [D]; Mrs. Peters; Yogi Zamor (villain; I; D).
Synopsis Father Time, puzzled by the fact that many noted people are being murdered, with a clock at the scene mysteriously stopping at the exact moment of death, seeks to solve the mystery against a strange Yogi who predicted those deaths.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Al Avison?
Inks Al Avison?
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 6-9-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009).