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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published October 1941
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Joe Simon
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.

Cover Details

Characters Captain America; Bucky.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Syd Shores
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Golden Age of Marvel (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn; in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

1 page Captain America story "Captain America Contents"

Characters Captain America; Bucky
Synopsis Illustrated table of contents page, listing features, some story titles & synopses, and cover ad for The Young Allies Comics #1.
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Letters typeset
Notes Found on the inside front cover. Notes, much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

13 page Captain America story "The Red Skull; An Ear for Music"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Betty Ross; Captain Craig [D]; Villains: The Red Skull (I; Johann Schmidt), von Ratt, Kroft [D].
Synopsis Cap has to contend with the return of the Red Skull and figure out why he is using Chopin's "Funeral March" as the means of his diabolical mission of destruction.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Notes Pencil credits from Greg Theakston. Two story titles for this story. Notes, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6; In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

15 page Captain America story "Death Loads the Bases"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Bernard Riggley; Old Pop Grimes; Joey DiRaggio [D]; Adams [D]; Villains: The Black Toad (I, D; Chuck McArthur), Charlie.
Synopsis After the mysterious deaths of two baseball players for the Brooklyn Badgers, Captain America agrees to pitch for the team in order to draw the murderer out of hiding.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #7; in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008); in Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

1 page Human Torch promo (ad from the publisher) "Read The Human Torch"

Characters The Human Torch; Toro; the Sub-Mariner.
Synopsis Illustrated [with the cover] promotional ad for Human Torch Comics #4 [actually #5a], Summer of 1941.
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Letters ?; most typeset
Notes Sequence, all info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

15 page Captain America story "A Message from Captain America"

Characters Captain America; Bucky; Father Time; Hurricane; Jerry "Headline" Hunter; Betty Ross.
Synopsis Captain America relates brief biographies of the various characters who appear in the pages of his magazine: Betty Ross, Sergeant Duffy, Father Time, Jerry "Headline" Hunter, and Hurricane.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (signed_
Letters ?; most typeset
Notes Most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

13 page Captain America story "Horror Plays the Scales"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Senator Alvin Benson [D]; Inspector Grimes; Senator Shores; Villains: The Fiddler (I, D), Haver, Hobbs.
Synopsis Cap has to battle the evil intentions of a man who uses a domestic employment agency as a blind in order to get his Nazi agents into the homes of anti-Nazi Senators in order to kill them.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #8; in Golden Age of Marvel (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn; in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

7 page Hurricane, Master of Speed story "Justice Laughs Last"

Characters Hurricane [Harry Kane]; Solidius X. "Speedy" Scriggles [I]; V: Petro (I).
Synopsis Hurricane helps to fend off a group of protection racket gangsters, and, in the process, picks himself up a new partner in the fight against crime.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

5 page Headline Hunter, Foreign Correspondent story "Dust of Destruction"

Characters "Headline" Hunter [Jerry Hunter]; Mfr. Reginald; Villains: Mr. Perry, Fritz.
Synopsis An American man is framed for a murder of a British star, and Hunter discovers that the man's cousin is responsible, hoping to gain wealth from the Nazis and money from his cousin's estate after he is hanged.
Genre crime
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

7 page Father Time story "Race Against Doom"

Characters Father Time [Larry Scott]; Hal Saxson; Villains; un-named D.A., un-named Bank President, Joe.
Synopsis One of Larry Scott's friends is accused of boarding a ship, shooting its officers and plundering the gold before sinking it, but Father Time smells a rat when he discovers the gold was counterfeit.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Al Avison?
Inks Al Gabriele?
Notes Most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

1 page Sentinels of Liberty Secret Club News activity

Synopsis Regular columns, "A Message From Captain America" and "Bucky's Column" are presented as well as several activity puzzles to challenge reader's abilities.
Genre superhero
Letters most typeset
Notes Sequence, synopsis and all info added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Mavel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).

1 page Sentinels of Liberty advertisement "Captain America Declares a 'State of Unlimited Junior National Emergency'!"

Characters Captain America; Bucky.
Synopsis Captain America encourages the readers to sign up 15 or more members into their local Sentinels of Liberty Club, and Cap will send them a special Charter of Membership to them. Then, they will then elect their own Captain, who will mail in a memorandum to Cap on the conduct of two of his Sentinels. Cap will then authorize this Captain to appoint those two Sentinels as Lieutenants under him, and when they do, Cap will send a gold certificate of merit to that group.
Genre superhero
Letters most typeset
Notes Found on the inside back cover. Sequence, all info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-8-09.
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2008).