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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Captain America Comics
Issue: 40
Page Count: 60
Publish Date: July 1944
Volume: 2
Contributors: Editor: Vince Fago

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Captain America Comics #40
Owner: Mike Miles

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Captain America
Pages:1
Pencils:Syd Shores [as Shores] (signed)
Inks:Syd Shores [as Shores] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes


Story Title: The Jester of Death - comic story
Features:Captain America
Pages:12
Pencils:Syd Shores (signed)
Inks:Vince Alascia (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Jester [Johnnie Pinkham] (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: The Bloody Assassin - comic story
Features:Human Torch
Pages:7
Pencils:Jimmy Thompson?
Genre:superhero
Characters:Herr Loeder (villain, introduction)


Story Title: Auction of Death - comic story
Features:Captain America
Pages:16
Pencils:Syd Shores ?
Genre:superhero
Characters:Keeper of the Flash (villain, introduction, death); Adolf Hitler (villain); Hirohito (villain)


Story Title: Periscope Ahead - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Mystery of the Floating City - comic story
Features:Captain America
Pages:16
Pencils:Vince Alascia
Genre:superhero
Characters:Lyander (introduction)


Story Title: The Murder of Brenda Kane - comic story
Features:Let's Play Detective
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Bellman
Inks:Al Bellman
Genre:detective-mystery


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