Issue | #12 |
Published | March 1942 |
Cover Price | 0.10 |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Some info added by Craig Delich 7-18-09. |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Dr. Crime |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Avison (signed) |
Inks | Al Avison (signed) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes] |
Synopsis | Illustrated contents page, listing each inside feature with short synopsis of each. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Avison ? |
Inks | Al Avison ? |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Found on the inside front cover. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Dr. Crime [Dr. Edward Elmgren] (villain, introduction); Professor Gibbs (villain); Jim Barney (villain); Knuckles Sampson (villain, death); Paul Fung (villain, death) |
Synopsis | A scientist returns from the Amazon with a secret gas that turns people into the size of pgymies to rob and kill for him, and Cap & Bucky must figure out a way to stop him after being shrunken themselves. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Otto Binder |
Pencils | Al Avison (signed) |
Inks | Al Avison (signed) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers] |
Synopsis | Illustrated ad featuring Captain America encouraging readers to join the Sentinels of Liberty. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Avison ? |
Inks | Al Avison ? |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; President Alvaro; Lotta; Rozzo (villain; introduction, death); Felipe (villain) |
Synopsis | Two old comrades, who once swore to share half of the other's wealth in life, suddenly find themselves opposed to one another, even unto the death! |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Avison (signed) |
Inks | Al Avison (signed) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |
Characters | The Imp (introduction); Jefferson Vandermeer; a monster (death); the Spider (villain) |
Synopsis | The Imp is called forth to fight a monstrous dragon, and not only causes the beast to drown, but he aids in the capture of the Spider and his men. |
Genre | fantasy; adventure |
Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
Pencils | Chad Grothkopf [as Chad] (signed) |
Inks | Chad Grothkopf [as Chad] (signed) |
Letters | Chad Grothkopf ? |
Notes | The story in told in rhyme. Oddity: the Imp lives in the ear of Jefferson Vandermeer! Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2009-7-18. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |
Characters | Pat Cowley; Mr. Cowley; Lamson (villain); Corivan (villain) |
Synopsis | Two rival loggers engage in a race to see which could float the most logs down the Red River. The reward? A fat contract with the Ames Lumber Company. |
Genre | adventure |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |
Characters | Father Time [Larry Scott]; Beretti (villain); Spike (villain) |
Synopsis | Father Time must deal with a mobster who has set fire to his own building to collect the insurance. In doing so, he shoots and kills a man, and kidnaps his daughter, to hush up those who know the truth about the situation. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Jack Alderman (signed) |
Inks | Jack Alderman (signed) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |
Characters | Headline Hunter [Jerry Hunter]; Ed; Guy Stanford (villain, death) |
Synopsis | Hunter must deal with an angry group of Londoners who have been led to believe that one of Headline's stories led to the sinking of two British ships by the Nazis. |
Genre | crime |
Script | Stan Lee [as Neel Nats] (signed) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2009) |