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Issue Details

Issue #38
Published May 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

17 page Captain America story "Castle of Doom"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Synopsis A hundred Japanese escape from internment camps and build an airbase in Death Valley with stolen parts. They plan to conduct bombing raids on American cities, but Cap and Bucky along with some help from a desert miner named Death Valley Pete, touch off the explosives located in a mine under their base and eliminate them.
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Vince Alascia

7 page Human Torch story "Murder For Profit"

Characters V: The Dagger (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Avison
Inks Al Bellman

13 page Captain America story "Frozen Death"

Characters V: The Cellmen (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Don Rico
Inks Al Gabriele
Notes this is NOT the same story as last issue, but it DOES have the same title!

2 page text story "The Sarge's Song"

Letters typeset

14 page Captain America story "The Peril of the Past"

Characters V: Dr. Emil Natas (I, D), Phao Na Tash (I, D), Diablo Natas (I, D); I: Hercules, Sir Amerigo (earlier incarnations of Cap)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Vince Alascia
Notes Natas predicts they will meet in a fourth incarnation

1 page Let's Play Detective story "The Mystery of the Coin"

Genre detective
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman