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Issue Details

Issue #51
Published December 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

16 page Captain America story "Mystery of the Atomic Boomerang"

Characters V: Prof. Rudo (I, D)
Synopsis Cap and Bucky are on a Japanese island that has been overrun, the Americans are plagued with strange explosions seemingly from nowhere. Professor Rudo has developed a tactical nuclear weapon which he calls "atom water" which detonates upon evaporation from the sun's rays. His men capture Cap and Bucky and leave them tied up outside surrounded by vials of the stuff. Bucky burns through the rope with a magnifying glass and Cap tosses a vial into Rudo's lab. After Rudo executes his own men so that they can tell no tales he retreats to his lab just as the sun evaporates his invention and the lab blows up in his face. Cap takes a sample back to a general, but the general tells him the Americans are miles ahead and have already developed an atomic bomb which will win the war overnight.
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Vince Alascia
Notes atomic bomb's existence revealed to Cap & Bucky

7 page Human Torch story "Killer From the Grave"

Characters V: Danny King (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Carmine Infantino

10 page Captain America story "Fraternity of Fat Fellows"

Characters V: The Chameleon (I; Breese)
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

1 page Let's Play Detective story "The Case of the Accusing Hand"

Genre detective
Pencils Al Bellman?
Inks Al Bellman?

2 page text story "Manhunt"

Letters typeset

10 page Captain America story "The Case of the Blonde Bombshell"

Characters V: Captain Catti (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Vince Alascia