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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published August 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

14 page Captain America story "The Killer Beasts of Notre Dame"

Characters V: The Gargoyles (I, D)
Synopsis A new Nazi governor of Paris wants to intimidate the French so he gets murdering lunatics released from asylums and has them disguised as the gargoyles from the top of Notre Dame. They accompany the German patrols of the streets to assault the French, and when the citizens beg the guards to intervene, the Germans laugh and pretend not to see the gargoyles. They even dab the claws of the stone gargoyles from the rooftop with human blood to enhance the illusion. The French underground send for help from Cap and Bucky and when they arrive they battle the governor at Notre Dame. The evil doer falls to his death from the rooftop and Cap gets a goodbye kiss from a grateful Frenchman.
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Vince Alascia

7 page Human Torch story "Berlin's Mistress of Death"

Characters V: Elsa (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bellman
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

2 page text story "Defense Witness"

Letters typeset

15 page Captain America story "The Murder Brain"

Characters V: Tiger Duncan (I, D (twice))
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Jack Binder?
Notes story swiped from Siodmak's DONOVAN'S BRAIN

2 page Let's Play Detective story "The Case of the Hit and Run Monster"

Genre detective
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman

15 page Captain America story "The School of Horror"

Characters V: The Schoolmaster (I, D; Sanderson)
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Al Gabriele