Issue | #11 |
Published | Winter 1943-1944 |
Cover Price | 0.10 |
Pages | 60 |
Editing | Vince Fago |
Notes | Some info added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Characters | Captain America; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Bucky Barnes; Toro; Nazis [villains]. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg) |
Inks | Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Some info added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008). |
Characters | The Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Ann; The Hawk (first appearance; villain; D); General Ford Sanders (first appearance). |
Synopsis | The Flaming Duo are ordered to discover what has been destroying U.S. defense plants, and they discover a monstrous Nazi boat plane called "Der-Tag", that can fly at an altitude of 60,000 feet! |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Bellman |
Inks | George Klein |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008). |
Characters | Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky (Bucky Barnes); Nogatmi (first appearance; villain; D); Ching Toy (first appearance; D); Pete McGuire (villain); Mae Toy (first appearance). |
Synopsis | Cap and Bucky must battle a gang of saboteurs that are using bowery derelicts and drugging them to set mysterious fires in New York, and blaming them on an ancient Chinese fire-god. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Vince Alascia |
Inks | Al Avison |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008). |
Characters | Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Hideki Tojo (villain); Nutsu (first appearance; villain); Nishki (first appearance; villain); the Japanese (villains). |
Synopsis | Tojo comes up with a brilliant plan to chloroform the water in order to render Namor harmless, capture and send him to Tokyo, then announce in the media that he has been captured in order to impress the United Nations that the Japanese are indeed superior. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jimmy Thompson |
Inks | Jimmy Thompson |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008). |
Characters | Dan Richards; Mr. Allen; Mr. Marks; Doc Stanley; Butch [villain]. |
Synopsis | Most people thought that Daniel Richards was an old has-been, but he was hired to make a stagecoach run carrying an important passenger, and that passenger better get to his destination on time! |
Genre | adventure |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Most of the last column on page 2 is the Statement of Ownership, listing Jean Goodman as Editor, and Martin Goodman as Managing Editor. Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008). |
Characters | The Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Adolf Hitler (villain); Hitler doubles (first appearance; villains); the Nazis (villains). |
Synopsis | Arriving at Berchtesgaden, the Destroyer discovers that Hitler uses doubles in public while he wastes away of a guilty conscience! |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Fred Bell |
Inks | Fred Bell |
Notes | Art credits revised from Chad Grothkopf to Fred Bell. The Who's Who indicates that Grothkopf only drew this strip from 1941-42. Some info and modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008) |
Characters | Mike; Ryan; Franz [villain]. |
Synopsis | The celebrated author of an anti-Fascist nook, "Nazis in America," is murdered and all the clues lead investigators to the gardener. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Allen Bellman (signed) |
Pencils | Allen Bellman (signed) |
Inks | Allen Bellman (signed) |
Notes | Writer credit, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008); in Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 |
Characters | The Whizzer [Jack Robinson]; Corsair Cox (first appearance; villain; D); the Nazis (villains); Bill Cox (first appearance). |
Synopsis | Young Cadet Bill Cox learns that his father, who was paying for his military training, was one of the biggest bandits of all time, so he quits the academy and vows to become a crook like his father before him. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Don Rico |
Inks | Bob Oksner |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-28-09. |
Reprinted | In Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2008). |