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Issue Details

Issue #52
Published January 1946
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

12 page Captain America story "The Case of the Telepathic Typewriter (Ch. 1)"

Characters V: Am (I), Allen Slake (I)
Synopsis A writer finds that millions of people believing in his radio monster Am brings the creature to life and he can control its behavior by typing commands on his typewriter. When Cap knocks him out, the creature realizes that it won't have to obey the writer anymore if it hides the typewriter from him.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Vince Alascia?
Notes The story is continued into the next chapter.

15 page Captain America story "Beauty and the Beast (Ch. 2)"

Characters V: Am (D), Allen Slake (D)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Vince Alascia?

7 page Human Torch story "The Cat-Man"

Characters V: The Cat-Man (I; Peter Blake)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bellman
Inks Al Bellman

2 page text story "Future Alliance"

Letters typeset

10 page Captain America story "The Hermit's Heritage"

Characters I: Hugo Pergody
Genre superhero
Pencils Vince Alascia
Inks Al Gabriele