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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Captain America Comics
Issue: 8
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: November 1941
Volume: 2
Contributors: Editor: Joe Simon

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Captain America Comics #8
Owner: walclark

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Captain America
Pages:1
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Al Gabriele
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America; Bucky; Nazis (villains)


Story Title: Captain America Contents - table of contents
Pages:1
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Joe Simon
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America; Bucky
Synopsis:Illustrated table of contents, listing features, some story titles and synopses, plus an ad for All-Winners #2 (with cover illustration).


Story Title: The Strange Mystery of the Ruby of the Nile and Its Heritage of Horror - comic story
Features:Captain America
Pages:13
Pencils:Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks:Joe Simon (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Betty Ross; Sergeant Duffy; Marina Bates; Bates (death); Parker (death); Biggs (the butler); Ra the Avenger [Henry Sanders] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:Cap and Bucky have to overcome a curse and an evil Pharaoh associated with the famed Ruby of the Nile before it can kill others.


Story Title: Murder Stalks the Maneuvers - comic story
Features:Captain America
Pages:11
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Joe Simon
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Clodd; Colonel Carter; Colonel Williams; Major Pierre Dumort (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:Steve and Bucky are out on a war games training exercise and are shocked to see that someone has tampered with the ammunition and the troops are using the real thing against each other.


Story Title: The Strange Riddle of the Plague of Death - comic story
Features:Headline Hunter, Foreign Correspondent
Pages:5
Pencils:Harry Fisk
Inks:Harry Fisk
Genre:crime
Characters:"Headline" Hunter [Jerry Hunter]; unnamed Nazi leader (villain); Nazi leader's gang (villains)
Synopsis:Headline discovers a plot to poison the English people by a Nazi gang who are growing food on a farm they own, knowing that the food is deadly.


Story Title: [ no title ] - activity
Features:Sentinels of Liberty Secret Club News
Pages:2
Pencils:A. W. Nugent (signed); ?
Inks:A. W. Nugent (signed); ?
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America; Bucky
Synopsis:This two-page spread includes the usual illustrated columns "A Message From Captain America" and "Bucky's Column," tells members that the Sentinels of Liberty charters are in the mail, features a coupon to join the Sentinels of Liberty and several illustrated activities (by Nugent) for readers to do.


Story Title: Case of the Black Witch - comic story
Features:Captain America
Pages:17
Pencils:Jack Kirby (credited)
Inks:Joe Simon (credited)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Michael Duffy; Karin Lee; The Black Witch [Mr. Feritt] (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:After saving a young girl being attacked in a weird castle, Captain America and Bucky learn that she must spend three nights in Hagmoor Castle in order to inherit the estate from her late uncle. And they volunteer to make sure she makes it through those nights safely in spite of threats by an evil witch.


Story Title: Carnival of Crime - comic story
Features:Hurricane, Master of Speed
Pages:7
Pencils:Charles Nicholas
Inks:Charles Nicholas
Genre:superhero
Characters:Hurricane [Harry Kane]; Solidius X. "Speedy" Scriggles; Silky (villain)
Synopsis:Speedy decides to take in the State Fair that's come to town to make sure it's run on the up and up, and Hurricane decides to follow him, to make sure he's safe if it isn't.


Story Title: The Young Allies Deal a Blow for Justice - text story
Features:Captain America and Young Allies
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain America [Steve Rogers]; The Young Allies [Bucky Barnes; Jefferson van Smythe; Tubby Tinkle; Knuckles [Percy Bartwell]; Whitewash Jones (introduction)]; Betty Ross; unnamed gangsters (villains)
Synopsis:Knuckles runs across Betty Ross, having been taken prisoner by a gang of crooks, so he calls in the rest of the Young Allies, who then call on Captain America to help save Betty.


Story Title: Vault of Doom - comic story
Features:Father Time
Pages:7
Pencils:Al Avison (signed)
Inks:Al Avison (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Father Time [Larry Scott]; an unnamed gang of crooks (villains)
Synopsis:Father Time steps in when criminals begin to over-run the metropolis of New York and murder and violence substitute for law and order.


Story Title: 4 Big Names! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Pencils:? (various)
Inks:? (various)
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Torch; Captain America; the Vision; the Sub-Mariner; the Destroyer
Synopsis:Promotional ad for Marvel Mystery Comics #24, All-Winners #2, Mystic Comics #6, and USA Comics #2, complete with covers for each.


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