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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published July 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Syd Shores

12 page Captain America story "The Jester of Death"

Characters V: The Jester (I, D; Johnnie Pinkham)
Synopsis When Steve and Bucky visit the House of Pranks they are met by a jester whom the guests think is a man named Bryce but is really Johnnie Pinkham. Johnny overpowered Bryce a week ago and locked him up in a room in the subbasement. Johnnie wants revenge for a childhood hazing stunt when several of the guests locked him in a graveyard overnight. He manages to kill two of them before Cap and Bucky stop him. When Johnnie attempts to escape, he plunges to his death in an elevator shaft where the elevator automatically returns to the bottom floor.
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Vince Alascia

7 page Human Torch story "The Bloody Assassin"

Characters V: Herr Loeder (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Thompson?

16 page Captain America story "Auction of Death"

Characters V: Keeper of the Flash (I, D), Adolf Hitler, Hirohito
Genre superhero

2 page text story "Periscope Ahead"

Letters typeset

16 page Captain America story "The Mystery of the Floating City"

Characters I: Lyander
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder

1 page Let's Play Detective story "The Murder of Brenda Kane"

Genre detective
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman