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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published Summer 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

10 page Captain America story "Crime Takes a Cruise"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Harriet Hawkins (first appearance; villain); Tiny Timkin (first appearance; villain); other crooks (first appearance; villains); Mactavish (first appearance)
Synopsis Cap and Bucky are set to take a cruise on a boat whose skipper has been waylaid by crooks because they want to pick up their female boss from an island after she escaped the seaside penitentiary. After the seas become rough, Cap discovers the real skipper below decks which forces the hands of the criminals. Cap and Bucky defeat the thugs and turn the gang leader over to the penitentiary guards.
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Vince Alascia
Notes story probably features Captain America II (Spirit of '76) and Bucky II

12 page Human Torch story "A Message From the Dead"

Characters Human Torch; J. Edgar Hoover; Herr Stoltz (first appearance; villain; death); Emil (first appearance; villain; death); other Nazi spies (first appearance; villains; all die); Col. Frank Carson (first appearance; death); Mrs. Carson (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman
Notes story set in World War II

2 page story "Only the Beginning"

Pencils Larry Antonette ?
Inks Larry Antonette ?

8 page Destroyer story "Agency of Death"

Characters Destroyer; Rocky Scarpulla (first appearance; villain); Inspector Butts (first appearance); Carol Butts (first appearance); Mr. Warburton (first appearance); Mrs. Warburton (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Pencils Ken Bald
Inks Ken Bald

2 page text story "An Unfortunate Ghost"

Letters typeset

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Horror Island"

Characters V: John Rayburn (I); I: S. Spade, Percy Latt, Blane (D), Rex Dowley (D), Dotty
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer