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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published Summer 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Stan Lee?
Notes mistakenly dated "Summer 1944" in indicia

Cover Details

Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Notes mistakenly dated "Summer 1944" in indicia

12 page Captain America story "The China Wall Mystery"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Lao-Chung (first appearance; a ghost?); The Japanese (villains)
Synopsis Steve Rogers and Bucky are stationed at the Great Wall of China when they come across a Jap plot to bypass Chinese garrisons by using hollowed out interior tunnels within the wall. Cap and Bucky meet a mysterious old Chinese man who gives them aid against the Japanese troops. When the old man tells Cap and Bucky that the walls will collapse burying the Japanese, it comes to pass, and Cap finds a coffin with an inscription that he can partially read. Cap and Bucky realize that their benefactor was the long dead ghost of the Great Wall's architect.
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Al Bellman

12 page Human Torch story "Death Cargo"

Characters Human Torch; Rawlings (first appearance; villain); Truett (first appearance; death); Agnes Truett (first appearance); Walter Crosley (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Jack Binder

6 page Jap Buster Johnson story "Air Base"

Characters The Japanese (villains)
Genre war
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Don Rico