Story #2Captain America and the Man Who Could Not Die
Writer: Jack Kirby. Writer: Joe Simon. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Syd Shores.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Executed killer
Nick Pinto returns from the dead to take vengeance against his gangland enemies. After killing gang boss
Tony Scarlatti, a crime wave breaks out.
Betty Ross tracks Pinto to an old warehouse where she is captured.
Captain America and
Bucky, following the same clues, come to her rescue and defeat Pinto and his gang. Pinto to sentenced to die again in the electric chair but survives again, thanks to the crooked prison doctor who tampered with the setting, ensuring that Pinto would receive a non-lethal jolt. Cap and Bucky are waiting outside however and after a battle Pinto is electrocuted for real when he tries to scale the outside fence.
Story #3Death in the Alps
Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Warren Kremer. Inker: Warren Kremer.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Headline Hunter visits the Swiss Alps to investigate the suspicious deaths of German refugees; as he meets with refugee scientist Von
Grosser, a pair of
Nazi agents ask the professor to join their bobsled team. As they take off down the track, Headline spots that the men are armed. He pursues on skis and arrives in time to rescue Von Grosser from being pushed off the sled to his death. He goes after the Nazis and runs their sled off a cliff. The Nazi leader takes Headline prisoner at gunpoint but a flip of the skis disarms him and he goes sailing over the cliff to join his henchmen.
Story #4Dead Man’s Ring
Writer: Stan Lee.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
A crook named
Paul Martin has murdered a trapper named
Smithers to get his hands on a map leading to a lost Indian treasure in the far north; he also took the dead man’s ring to impede identification of the body. As he searches for the gold he is captured by the local tribe who intend to put him to death for violating their sacred grounds (not to mention heisting their gold). The tribesmen postpone the execution until midnight and go to sleep. Martin plans to escape but he drops the stolen ring and the noise as it hits the floor awakens the Indians—so they carry out the sentence on the spot.
Story #5Captain America in the Case of the Black Talon
Writer: Otto Binder. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Syd Shores.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
On their way back to camp from a weird art exhibit by one
Black Talon,
Steve and
Bucky witness the murder of an artist by a sinister black hand. Switching to
Captain America and Bucky, they investigate and battle the Black Talon but the villain escapes. The Black Talon paints a portrait of his victim’s shocked countenance, then goes out to kill another artist. Cap again arrives too late to prevent the murder and again battles the strong madman. Detective work by Steve and Bucky uncovers the name
Pascal Horta and they pay him a visit as Cap and Bucky but find the artist hanged. The two heroes overpower the henchmen but are taken by surprise by Horta, who faked his hanging death, and captured. The mad artist reveals how his painting hand was crushed in an accident and he received the transplanted hand of an executed murderer, who was African. The sinister black hand led him to paint gruesome pictures, driving him to kill so he could capture the horrified faces on canvas. Cap breaks free and slugs it out with the villain sending him through a window to his death below. What they don’t see is that the Black Talon caught onto a branch and survived—to return someday.
Story #6Crime Goes to Press
Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Charles Nicholas. Inker: Charles Nicholas.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Arriving in a new town,
Harry (Hurricane) Kane sees a man being attacked by a gang of thugs and intervenes, driving them off. The victim is news editor
Brown who has angered the local mob with his crusading editorials. He offers Harry a job as reporter and introduces him to the paper’s owner
Smithers. While Harry is out he is spotted by the hoods who try to run him down with their car; as the Hurricane, our hero catches up and captures them and they confess that the mysterious big boss is connected with the paper. He is correct: the gang boss is owner Smithers and he has Harry and Brown taken prisoner and marked for murder. Hurricane slips his bonds and traps the gang by piling furniture around them; Smithers falls to his death in the printing press.
Story #7The Bombs of Doom
Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Al Avison. Inker: George Klein.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Mad scientist
Zarpo tries to sell his new bomb (it detonates after being near a human being for five minutes) but is rejected by government official
John Peters. Zarpo vows revenge and soon after Peters is killed by an explosion in his home.
Larry Scott, a friend of Peters, decides to investigate as
Father Time. A second victim,
Senator Rogers, is also killed but Father Time manages to catch the villain who placed the bomb. The hero approaches the mad scientist’s hideout but they see him coming and trap him. They leave him bound in a cabin with one of the bombs; they breathe a sigh of relief when they hear the explosion shortly, but Father Time appears behind them and overpowers the goons and bats a deadly bomb back in Zarpo’s face.