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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published Spring 1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Vince Fago

Cover Details

Characters Captain America; Bucky; Sub-Mariner, Human Torch; Toro.
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg)
Inks Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg)
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page The Human Torch story "The Horror of the Ghost Fiend"

Characters The Human Torch [Jim Hamond]; Toro; Major Brant; Colonel Charlton; Franz [villain]; Kane [villain, D]; The Wisp (villain, I).
Synopsis The Flaming Duo must deal with Nazi treachery that slightly alters a message of America's help to protect Mecca to an order for the U.S. to destroy the holy city.
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks George Klein?
Notes Inker revision from Allen Bellman to George Klein?. The Who's Who lists Bellman as artist (p/i) in 1943 only, but does list Klein as inker in 1944. Notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 4-22-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Captain America story "The Four Trials of Justice"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; The Red Skull (villain).
Synopsis The four freedoms come under attack when the Red Skull, deciding that the war in Germany is lost, has post-war plans to Nazify America!
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly
Inks Al Avison?
Notes Inker revision from Al Avison to Al Avison? The Who's Who lists Avison as Captain America artist (p/i) in 1944 and inker only in 1947-48. Note, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 4-22-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

2 page text story "Ashes"

Characters Dave; Will; un-named villain.
Synopsis Dave and Will, in order to get out of the rain, make themselves at home in what they believe is an empty, abandoned house. In reality, it is a storehouse for illegal guns and ammunition.
Genre adventure
Letters typeset
Notes Most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 4-22-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Smash the Tunnel of Terror"

Characters The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Captain Krashyu (villain, I, D); the Japanese (villains, many D).
Synopsis An earthquake rouses Namor to travel to Australia, where he is captured by the Japanese, who show him a tunnel under the ocean floor that stretches from Singapore to Australia, and which they intend to use for invasion.
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 4-22-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

1 page Paper Salvage w/Captain America public service announcement "Urgent! Sentinels of Liberty!"

Characters Captain America; Bucky.
Synopsis Cap and Bucky encourage the Sentinels of Liberty members to join them in joining the waste paper drive.
Genre superhero
Notes Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 4-22-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).

7 page The Destroyer story "The Beachhead Blitz"

Characters The Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Major Whalen; Hauptmann [Captain] Schnagel (I, villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); Hermann Göring (villain); Joseph Goebbels (villain); the Nazis (villains).
Synopsis A British Commando unit places the plans for the Nazis' 2nd Front into the hands of the Destroyer, and his job is to get it to the French Underground. What the Nazis don't know is that the plans are false and designed to trap the Nazis themselves!
Genre superhero
Pencils Don Rico
Inks Fred Bell?
Notes Mike Sekowsky credited with the art in the reprint. Writer credit revised from Don Rico? to ?, as the Who's Who doesn't list Rico as writing this strip. Revised inker credit from Don Rico to Fred Bell?, as Who's Who lists Rico ONLY as penciller of this strip and Bell as only other inker on this strip for 1944. Most notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 4-22-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #12 (December 1967); in Golden Age of Marvel (Marvel, 1997 series) #[nn] (1997); in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008).