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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published Fall 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.

Cover Details

Characters Captain America; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Bucky; Toro; the Nazis [villains].
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Letters typeset
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Human Torch story "Bloody Talons of the Feathered Fiends"

Characters Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Noval; The Vulture (villain, D); Boris [villain, D]; Nikki [a vulture, villain]; Mongo [villain, D].
Synopsis The Torch and Toro must stop the evil plans of the Vulture, who uses his trained birds to drop incendiary eggs on factories.
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Fisk?; Harry Sahle?
Inks George Klein?; Edd Ashe?
Notes Credit additions, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Captain America story "Kioto, the Mad Jap"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Setgeant Duffy; Kioto (I, villain, D).
Synopsis A mad and crazed Japanese is killing American soldiers on a remote island, and dropping their bodies near an American camp. Cap and Bucky get a tip where they are being held and head out to rescue them, only to get captured themselves.
Genre superhero
Inks Jack Alderman
Notes Pencil revision from Al Bellman to ?. The Who's Who doesn't list Bellman as a Captain America artist. Notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Alibi For Grim Deceit"

Characters Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; Marshall Kronin (I, villain); Admiral Roeter [villain]; the Nazis (villains).
Synopsis Betty has been kidnapped by the Nazis, so Namor decides to pretend that he has joined the enemy and arrange for the Nazis to successfully stop American convoy operations in order to save her.
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer?
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

2 page text story "The Silver Buck"

Characters Bert; Johnnie [villain]; Pat [villain]; Pete; Lt. Reynolds.
Synopsis Bert, a civilian guard for military warehouses, counters the attempts by two individuals to get into them, one of whom lost his "lucky" dollar.
Genre adventure
Pencils ? [masthead]
Inks ? [masthead]
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

8 page The Destroyer story "The Rescue of the Partisan's Sister"

Characters The Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Frank Piraud; Ruth Piraud; Colonel von Bitters [villain].
Synopsis The Nazis have captured the sister of the French underground leader, Frank Piraud, but the Destroyer visualizes a way to stop the Nazi threat and rescue his sister.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

1 page War Savings Stamps advertisement "Captain America Badges Have Gone to War!"

Characters Captain America; Bucky.
Synopsis Illustrated ad announcing that, for the duration of the war, no more Sentinels of Liberty badges will be produced because the metal is needed by the government to help produce ammunition, tanks, planes, guns and ships. And the Sentinels of Liberty Club is no longer accepting dimes to join until further notice, and readers are encouraged to now use those dimes to buy War Savings Stamps.
Genre fact
Notes Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

8 page The Whizzer story "The Terror of Triple Destruction"

Characters The Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; May; Henry; Gabby; Triple Destruction (introduction; villain); Hans (Triple Destruction's aide)(introduction; villain); Triple Destruction's unnamed aide (introduction; villain).
Synopsis The Whizzer must meet the challenge of Triple Destruction, a master Nazi saboteur, who has a fiendish plan to simultaneously destroy three war plans at the same time.
Genre superhero
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes Pencil credit revision from Al Bellman to ? and ink credit revision from Al Bellman to Bob Oksner. The Who's Who does NOT list Bellman as having ever done this strip. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008); in Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1