Story #2The Man With No Face
Penciler: John Romita. Inker: John Romita.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Captain America and
Bucky are aiding
Officer Wing of the police in cleaning up crime in Chinatown. Wing explains that normally law-abiding Chinese are being forced to support the Reds through threats to their loved ones back in China. Threats are enforced by the Red hatchet man known as the
Man with No Face; Wing himself has a twin brother in China who is being threatened. Wing is lured into a trap by the Man with No Face; Cap and Bucky intervene and overcome the gang but the hatchet man gets away. Cap pursues him over the rooftops and corners him. Unmasked, the Man with No Face is Wing’s brother! The villain throws himself to his death from the roof. Seeing that the fall destroyed the bad guy’s face, Cap decides not to inform Wing of the killer’s identity.
Story #3Bait For a Spy
Writer: ?.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Jerry and
Sally Carter are on the cruise ship
Algonquin when French physicist
Lucien Flandin is found murdered on board. Offering his services to
Captain Jones as a detective, Jerry investigates and deduces that the most likely suspect is American scientist
Doctor Keller, whose motive was the discovery that Flandin was a Commie spy, passing along their research to the enemy. Jerry proposes to Jones a scheme to trap Keller: lead him to believe that Flandin has already passed the secrets to his contact and catch him when he tries to kill again (knowing that if Keller is innocent, he would likely be the next victim). That night the trap is sprung outside Keller’s cabin; Jerry guns down the mysterious assailant who is unmasked as…Captain Jones! Jerry explains that Jones was a Red agent plotting to kill both scientists to cover the theft of the secrets and reveals to the scientist that he is a Secret Service agent assigned to protect people like him.
Story #4The Misunderstood Monster
Penciler: Dick Ayers. Inker: Dick Ayers.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
A huge reptilian monster with one eye is sighted at the shore, causing a panic. The
Human Torch and
Toro go there to investigate and end up rescuing a boy who ran off a cliff in panic. While circling the monster, Toro crashes into a tree and falls to his death on the rocks below. The monster restores him to life, explaining to the Torch that he is an alien geneticist stranded on Earth. Torch and Toro help him repair his spacecraft and fly off. When they try to explain matters to the human mob, they are ignored so decide to keep the full story to themselves.
Story #5Mission to a POW Camp
Writer: ?. Penciler: John Romita. Inker: John Romita.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Captain America is summoned to the Pentagon for an important mission: Red POWs in American camps in Korea are dying of a mysterious disease, causing the enemy to claim their soldiers are being mistreated by the US. Cap is asked to deliver the antidote to the Korean camps. Meanwhile, the Commies are keeping an eye on Cap—turns out they are poisoning their own men to humiliate America before the world. A bomb placed in Cap’s plane explodes—but the aircraft was only a decoy. Cap and
Bucky take off for real and are intercepted by enemy planes and only Cap’s expert piloting enables them to reach Korea. At the POW camp, the sick prisoners are inoculated with the antidote. Cap and Bucky are mobbed by the suspicious POWs but the brawl ends when the sick men are discovered to be cured. Cap ends with a pitch for democracy.