Dates
- Cover date
- August 1942
- On sale
- June 5, 1942
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Monster from the Morgue · 12 pages
A jealous scientist named Dr. Weirdler learns one of his colleagues has developed a serum that will reanimate dead bodies and is planning on testing it on a recently deceased gorilla. Dr. Weirdler takes the brain of an executed criminal named Killer Kole and places it in the gorilla's body. The experiment doesn't seem to work and the medical students bury the gorilla's body where the grave is struck by lightning and Killer Kole is revived. His goes to the zoo and breaks out a pair of gorillas for his mob and then sets out on a path of vengeance against the three judges who sent him to the chair. Dr. Weirdler informs Cap about the beast terrorizing the city and then takes a knife thrown at Cap to atone for his crime. Cap socks Killer Kole off a highrise and he falls to his doom.
- Rookie McQuirk · 5 pages
No matter what duty Sergeant Thunder appoints to McQuirk and Blackout, everything goes wrong!
- Sub-Earthmen's Revenge! · 20 pages
Cap and Bucky must battle the Spook and his Sub-Earth army, who seek to stop the American Army from conducting operations against the enemy.
- Situation Wanted: I Got an Action Story · 2 pages
A magazine editor tells a writer of his that he needs a story with action and up-to-the-minute stuff, so he heads out to complete the assignment, but fails to come up with something as sensational as the editor wants. Spotting a month old issue of "Daring Deeds", a competitor's publication, the writer decides: why not use a plot from that issue?!?
- The China Road · 6 pages
When the Japanese have nearly succeeded in shutting off the China Road to Allied convoys, the Fighting Yank discovers treason within his own ranks and ferrets out the traitor.
- Machine of Doom! · 12 pages
Believing that men are good, but that their will to self destruction (perpetrated by the Devil) over-rides the good they can do and only places the world in danger, Professor Mott decides to destroy the world!
- The Stolen Birth Certificates · 7 pages
Roddy, as the Secret Stamp, attempts to battle some criminals who are getting people's birth certificates for gang members so they could be hired into defense plants for the purpose of sabotage.
Characters
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America (2005), Golden Age Captain America Omnibus (2014)