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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published Winter 1943-1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.

Cover Details

Characters Captain America; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Bucky Barnes; Toro; Nazis [villains].
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg)
Inks Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg)
Letters typeset
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page The Human Torch story "Sky Demons Over America"

Characters The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Ann; The Hawk (first appearance; villain; D); General Ford Sanders (first appearance).
Synopsis The Flaming Duo are ordered to discover what has been destroying U.S. defense plants, and they discover a monstrous Nazi boat plane called "Der-Tag", that can fly at an altitude of 60,000 feet!
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks George Klein
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Captain America story "The Case of the Yellow Fire Monster"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky (Bucky Barnes); Nogatmi (first appearance; villain; D); Ching Toy (first appearance; D); Pete McGuire (villain); Mae Toy (first appearance).
Synopsis Cap and Bucky must battle a gang of saboteurs that are using bowery derelicts and drugging them to set mysterious fires in New York, and blaming them on an ancient Chinese fire-god.
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Al Avison
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Terror In Tokyo"

Characters Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Hideki Tojo (villain); Nutsu (first appearance; villain); Nishki (first appearance; villain); the Japanese (villains).
Synopsis Tojo comes up with a brilliant plan to chloroform the water in order to render Namor harmless, capture and send him to Tokyo, then announce in the media that he has been captured in order to impress the United Nations that the Japanese are indeed superior.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

2 page text story "Return Engagement"

Characters Dan Richards; Mr. Allen; Mr. Marks; Doc Stanley; Butch [villain].
Synopsis Most people thought that Daniel Richards was an old has-been, but he was hired to make a stagecoach run carrying an important passenger, and that passenger better get to his destination on time!
Genre adventure
Letters typeset
Notes Most of the last column on page 2 is the Statement of Ownership, listing Jean Goodman as Editor, and Martin Goodman as Managing Editor. Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

8 page The Destroyer story "The Real Hitler"

Characters The Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Adolf Hitler (villain); Hitler doubles (first appearance; villains); the Nazis (villains).
Synopsis Arriving at Berchtesgaden, the Destroyer discovers that Hitler uses doubles in public while he wastes away of a guilty conscience!
Genre superhero
Pencils Fred Bell
Inks Fred Bell
Notes Art credits revised from Chad Grothkopf to Fred Bell. The Who's Who indicates that Grothkopf only drew this strip from 1941-42. Some info and modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008)

2 page Let's Play Detective story "The Mystery of the Ghost Killer"

Characters Mike; Ryan; Franz [villain].
Synopsis The celebrated author of an anti-Fascist nook, "Nazis in America," is murdered and all the clues lead investigators to the gardener.
Genre detective
Script Allen Bellman (signed)
Pencils Allen Bellman (signed)
Inks Allen Bellman (signed)
Notes Writer credit, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008); in Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

7 page The Whizzer story "The Three Chances of Cadet Cox"

Characters The Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; Corsair Cox (first appearance; villain; D); the Nazis (villains); Bill Cox (first appearance).
Synopsis Young Cadet Bill Cox learns that his father, who was paying for his military training, was one of the biggest bandits of all time, so he quits the academy and vows to become a crook like his father before him.
Genre superhero
Pencils Don Rico
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).