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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published June 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

15 page Captain America story "Terror of the Ghost Harpoon"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Synopsis Cap and Bucky visit Nantucket where they meet a crazy old man who wants to destroy a ship named "Moby Dick" owned by a woman named Molly because it reminds him of having lost his two sons at sea. He makes an ally of the Moby Dick's first mate, but when the man betrays him and attempts to buy the ship from Molly instead of letting the craft rot, the old man hurls a harpoon at him to try and kill him. Cap blocks the harpoon with his shield and pursues the first mate up the mast. During the battle, the man falls to his death on the deck below. Now that the old man's "curse" has been dealt with, Molly's seagoing future looks brighter.
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Vince Alascia
Notes Melville references

1 page Let's Play Detective story "The Murder of Cyrus Crane"

Genre detective
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman

13 page Captain America story "Riders of Death"

Characters V: The Death Riders (I)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Ken Bald?

2 page text story "On the Square"

Letters typeset

12 page Captain America story "Rockets of Doom"

Characters V: Carl Von Brummel (I, D), Adolf Hitler
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky?
Inks Al Bellman?

2 page Let's Play Detective story "The Case of the Talking Crystal Ball"

Genre detective
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman

7 page Human Torch story "Tarbu's Mission of Death"

Characters V: Prof. Tarbu (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Allen Simon