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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published March 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

12 page Captain America story "The Big Guy"

Characters V: The Big Guy (I)
Synopsis An unassuming criminal compensating for something goes by the name of the "Big Guy" and surrounds himself with large furniture, tall men, Great Danes, and he even has a tall girlfriend who works as a bouncer. Cap gets himself brought to him by kissing the girl and then he and Bucky escape by getting the dog drunk on catnip. Bucky figures out that his next crime will be stealing silver from an atom smasher from a comment the Big Guy made about "small things". Chased to the top of the building, the Big Guy gets away from Cap by using his hat as a parachute and riding the dog to a waiting car driven by his girlfriend. She is daydreaming of her kiss with Cap.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Al Avison

7 page Human Torch story "The Wish of Death"

Characters V: Baxter (I)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Carmine Infantino

1 page Paige's Looney Page story

Genre Humor
Script Lou Paige
Pencils Lou Paige
Inks Lou Paige

14 page Captain America story "Scarface and the Script of Death"

Characters V: Scarface (I, D; Bel Commings, aka Larry Shore)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Al Bellman
Notes story similiar to original Clayface in Batman strip

2 page text story "Cub-Reporter"

Letters typeset

10 page Captain America story "Murder Mountain"

Characters V: Dr. Weerd (I; Gov. Hawes)
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)