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CATALOG RECORD

Captain America Comics #16

Marvel · Series began 1941 · July 1942

Dates

Cover date
July 1942
On sale
April 30, 1942
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Al Avison, Chad Grothkopf, Mike Sekowsky, Bill Kinginks: Al Avison, Syd Shores, George Klein, Chad Grothkopf, Bill Kingscript: Manly Wade Wellman, Stan Lee

Stories

  • The Horror of the Seas · 20 pages

    Cap and Bucky encounter a race of undersea people that have built a temple to their goddess Lai-Son beneath the reef where they sacrifice the townspeople under the command of a Nazi who plans to use them as the spearhead of an invasion.

  • The Imp and the Pirates · Imp · 7 pages

    Jefferson and the Imp set out to uncover some pirate treasure, then run into a blood thirsty group of pirates determined not to let them have it.

  • Untitled · 1 pages

    Percy's attempts to impressive a girl with his roller skating backfires on him.....big time!

  • Pacific Voyage · 2 pages

    Dick and his friend decide to sail back to the United States from China by sailing aboard a Chinese Junk they purchased, but the trip is anything but delightful.

  • Red Skull's Deadly Revenge · 24 pages

    The Red Skull sets out to trap the famed Captain America and succeeds, then takes over Cap's costumed identity, attempting to dishonor the name of America's hero!

  • Murder in Cross Lane · 7 pages

    When Roddy's reporter friend, Jerry Dash, is accused of murdering a fellow reporter, the Secret Stamp goes into action to save his life from an angry mob.

Characters

Steve RogersCaptain AmericaBucky BarnesJohann ShmidtRed SkullBuckySergeant DuffyElizabeth Ross

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (2005), Golden Age Captain America Omnibus (2014), Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (2005), Captain America (2005), Stan Lee Marvel Treasury Edition (2016), Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (2019), The Best Marvel Stories by Stan Lee Omnibus (2022)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

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