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Issue Details

Issue #271
Published July 1982
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Lance Tooks (Assistant Editor); Jim Salicrup (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

Cover Details

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Mr. X
Genre superhero
Pencils Alan Kupperberg (signed)
Inks John Beatty (signed)
Letters Typeset

22 page Captain America story "The Mystery of Mr. X"

Characters FEATURE: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; GUESTS: Bernie Rosenthal; Mr. X (1st) [Ray Deacon]; VILLAIN: King Arthur (1st; a wrestler)
Synopsis Steve and Bernie are watching wrestling when they witness the masked Mr. X kill another wrestler in the ring; Cap agrees to a match with Mr. X to ferret out the killer.
Genre superhero
Script David Kraft
Pencils Alan Kupperberg
Inks John Beatty (pages 1-15); Jack Abel (pages 16-17); Mike Esposito (pages 18-20); Joe Rubinstein (pages 21-22)
Colors Christie Scheele
Letters Rick Parker
Notes Additional inker credits added 2005 by Steven Tice. Page numbers are actual story pages.