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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published Fall 1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Vince Fago
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 5-24-09.

Cover Details

Characters Captain America; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Bucky Barnes; Toro; The Japanese.
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Letters typeset
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 5-24-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) (2008).

12 page Human Torch story "The Case of the Masked Strangler"

Characters Human Torch [Jim Hamond]; Toro; Eva Barry [D]; Lorraine Barry [D]; The Madame [Bran Carter] (first appearance; villain; D).
Synopsis The Flaming Duo must stop a sinister woman named the Madame, who tries to force factory workers to sabotage the war plants that they work in.
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Jack Alderman?
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 5-25-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) (2008).

12 page Captain America story "The Gardens of Doom"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Dave; Jim [D]; Dr. Botan (first appearance; villain; D?)
Synopsis Cap and Bucky must square off against a crazed scientist who has succeeded in cross breeding plants and humans to create a creature remaining only 75% still human!
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly
Inks Al Avison
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 5-25-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All Winners (Marvel, 2005 series)(2008).

2 page text story "Hoofs of Doom"

Characters Lon Chambers; Berger [villain, D]; un-named boss [villain].
Synopsis A young man buys several carloads of horses from his father, but then has to fight a man named Berger, who has been ordered by his boss to get him a large group of horses....or else!
Genre adventure
Letters typeset
Notes Most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 5-25-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) (2008).

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Waterfront Terror"

Characters The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; Martin [D]; Mr. Cornell; Mr. Schlick (first appearance; villain); Weasel [villain].
Synopsis When Namor comes upon a man buying gasoline without the usual ration stamps, he investigates, along with Betty Dean, all the makings of a gasoline racket.
Genre superhero
Pencils Allen Simon
Inks Allen Simon
Notes Oddity: Namor locates members of the racket in an old inn called "The Green Lantern"! Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 5-25-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) (2008).

1 page Miss America promo (ad from the publisher)

Characters Miss America
Synopsis Photo ad for the Miss America Magazine Contest, offering $1000 in cash prizes to teenage girls who will enter the contest. Readers are instructed to get the November, 1944 issue of Miss America, on sale September 10th, for details.
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 5-25-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) (2008).

7 page Whizzer story "The Maze of Madness"

Characters The Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; Alice Jones; Charles Paine; Dr. Lars Krool (first appearance; villain; D).
Synopsis Whizzer must defeat the evil schemes of Dr. Krool, a scientist who has spent his life studying what it takes to drive animals mad. Now he is looking for a human subject to enter his "super-maze", which will test a man's mind under stress and strain.
Genre superhero
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes Pencil credit revised from Al Gabriele to ?. According to the Who's Who, Gabriele only worked on the Whizzer in 1941. Ink credit revised from Al Bellman to Bob Oksner. According to the Who's Who, Bellman never worked on this strip. Notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 5-25-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) (2008).

1 page Captain America public service announcement "Urgent! Sentinels of Liberty!"

Characters Captain America; Bucky.
Synopsis A message from Captain America to the Sentinels of Liberty, visually instructing them [with the help of Bucky] on how to package various types of paper products for the paper salvage efforts being undertaken by the government.
Genre superhero
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 5-25-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) (2008).