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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published Winter 1944-1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Vince Fago

Cover Details

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Bucky Barnes; Toro
Genre Superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

14 page Captain America story "The Bamboo Knife Butcher"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Smallen (first appearance; villain; death); a gang of savages (first appearance; villains); Mrs. James Mallon (first appearance); Jim Mallon, Jr. (first appearance)
Synopsis Natives exert a strange influence over a man and he sends his nephew's mother a shrunken head and claims it is her son. Her son is still alive, however, and Captain America and Bucky rescue him and send the uncle plunging to his doom.
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Al Bellman

12 page Human Torch story "The Shadow of the Stalking Death"

Characters Human Torch; The Past [Tim] (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman

7 page Whizzer story "Speed For Sale"

Characters Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; Ed "Mock" Turtle (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Binder
Inks Al Gabriele
Notes Whizzer is still "Jack Robinson."

13 page Sub-Mariner story "The Mystery of the Great Lakes"

Characters Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Herr Swastika (first appearance; villain); the Nazis (villains)
Genre superhero
Script Bob Powell?
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell