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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published February 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Syd Shores

1 page credits "Contents page"

Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Avison

17 page Captain America story "The Mystery of the One Hundred Corpses"

Characters V: Izan (I, D?; spell it backwards)
Synopsis Steve and Bucky go skinny-dipping in a quarry when they are interrupted by Izan (Nazi backwards) who has been using the quarry to dump bodies. He poses as a doctor to dying air raid wardens so that he substitutes his own men made up to look like the deceased and have them turn on all the lights at midnight. Cap and Bucky put a stop to his plans.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Syd Shores?
Inks Syd Shores?

7 page Human Torch story "Terror At the Shipyards"

Characters V: Mr. Hetler (I)
Genre superhero

15 page Captain America story "The Deadly Snapper"

Characters V: The Turtle-Man (I; Rocks Rico)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Syd Shores?
Notes story takes place during Mardi Gras, 1943

2 page text story "Head Hunters' Stew"

Letters typeset

7 page Secret Stamp story "The Case of the Bund's Bonds"

Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Don Rico?
Inks Don Rico?

17 page Captain America story "The Idol of Doom"

Characters V: Prince Ba'rahm (I), Shao (I; a dwarf), Brady (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Syd Shores?