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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published August 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Avison

1 page credits "Contents page"

Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Avison

12 page Captain America story "The Monster from the Morgue"

Characters V: Killer Kole (I, D; human brain in gorilla body)
Synopsis A jealous scientist named Dr. Weirdler learns one of his colleagues has developed a serum that will reanimate dead bodies and is planning on testing it on a recently deceased gorilla. Dr. Weirdler takes the brain of an executed criminal named Killer Kole and places it in the gorilla's body. The experiment doesn't seem to work and the medical students bury the gorilla's body where the grave is struck by lightning and Killer Kole is revived. His goes to the zoo and breaks out a pair of gorillas for his mob and then sets out on a path of vengeance against the three judges who sent him to the chair. Dr. Weirdler informs Cap about the beast terrorizing the city and then takes a knife thrown at Cap to atone for his crime. Cap socks Killer Kole off a highrise and he falls to his doom.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Avison

5 page Rookie McQuirk story

Genre Humor
Script Red Holmdale
Pencils Red Holmdale
Inks Red Holmdale

20 page Captain America story "Sub-Earthmen's Revenge"

Characters V: The Spook (I; Hans Knutte); I: Queen Medusa and her Sub-Earth Men
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Avison

2 page text story "Situation Wanted: I Got an Action Story"

Script Mortimer Breen
Letters typeset

6 page Fighting Yank story "The China Road"

Characters I: The Fighting Yank (Bill Prince; not the Better Publications character)
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

12 page Captain America story "Machine of Doom"

Characters V: Le Bull (I, D), Prof. Mott (I, D)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Avison

7 page Secret Stamp story "The Stolen Birth Certificates"

Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Don Rico
Inks Don Rico