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Captain America Comics #40

Marvel · Series began 1941 · July 1944

Dates

Cover date
July 1944
On sale
May 11, 1944
Pages
60

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Syd Shores, Vince Alascia, Allen Bellmaninks: Syd Shores, Vince Alascia, Allen Bellmanscript: Otto Binder

Stories

  • The Jester of Death · 12 pages

    When Steve and Bucky visit the House of Pranks they are met by a jester whom the guests think is a man named Bryce but is really Johnnie Pinkham. Johnny overpowered Bryce a week ago and locked him up in a room in the subbasement. Johnnie wants revenge for a childhood hazing stunt when several of the guests locked him in a graveyard overnight. He manages to kill two of them before Cap and Bucky stop him. When Johnnie attempts to escape, he plunges to his death in an elevator shaft where the elevator automatically returns to the bottom floor.

  • The Bloody Assassin · 7 pages
  • Auction of Death · 16 pages
  • Periscope Ahead · 2 pages
  • The Mystery of the Floating City · 16 pages
  • The Murder of Brenda Kane · 1 pages

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