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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Captain America Comics
Issue: 17
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: August 1942
Volume: 2
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee (managing editor); Al Avison (associate editor)

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Captain America Comics #17
Owner: walclark

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Story Title: Here Lies Bucky, Buried Alive - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]


Story Title: Contents Page - table of contents
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]


Story Title: The Monster from the Morgue - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Dr. Thomas Austin; Judge Hudson (death); Judge Basset; Judge Johnson; Dr. Jason Weirdler (Dr. Austin's assistant, death); Killer Kole (villain, introduction, death, human brain in gorilla body)
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Rookie McQuirk
Pages:5
Genre:humor
Characters:Private McQuirk; Private Blackout; Sergeant Thunder
Synopsis:No matter what duty Sergeant Thunder appoints to McQuirk and Blackout, everything goes wrong!


Story Title: Sub-Earthmen's Revenge! - comic story
Pages:20
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Clem; General Keller; General Haywood; Queen Medusa (introduction); Sub-Earth Men (temporary villains, introduction, some die); The Spook [Hans Knutte] (villain, introduction, posing as news reporter)
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: Situation Wanted: I Got an Action Story - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure
Characters:Wilbur; Beefy Boy (villain); Big Stuff (villain)
Synopsis: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?!?


Story Title: The China Road - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:adventure; military
Characters:The Fighting Yank [Bill Prince] (introduction, not the Better Publications character); the Japanese (villains); un-named Japanese leader (villain); Ah Kee (villain, death)
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: Machine of Doom! - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Jensen (Mott's assistant, death); Le Bull (villain, introduction, death); Prof. Mott (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: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!


Story Title: The Stolen Birth Certificates - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Secret Stamp [Roddy Colt]; Mrs. Colt (Roddy's mother); Jerry Dash (newspaper reporter); Mrs. Thompkins; Mr. Eckman; Mrs. Kemp (Roddy's teacher); un-named district attorney; un-named criminal gang (villains)
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: Sentinels of Liberty Secret Club News - in-house column
Features:Sentinels of Liberty
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]
Synopsis:Captain America asks club members and readers alike to fully support the war effort, while Bucky tells readers about the next Cap adventure next month and provides the code passwords for the month.


Story Title: Krazy Komics - advertisement
Features:Krazy Komics
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters:Ziggy Pig; Posty Pelican; Toughy Tomcat; Snappy Turtle


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