“Part One: A Captain Called America!”
Synopsis: After Captain America and
Bucky defeat a gang of Bundist saboteurs at a shipyard, they are
approached by FBI agents, who tell Cap about Dr Anderson. The name
causes Cap to meditate on his origin at length and then to go to
Walter Reed Hospital to see the doctor, who was part of the team
responsible for his becoming Captain America....
“Part Two: Enter: the Human Torch!”
Synopsis: At the hospital, the gravely
injured Dr Anderson fills Cap in on a new development: a few weeks
earlier, Anderson was snatched by Nazi agents and taken to their
hideout at an abandoned farm. There, Colonel Krieghund showed him a
Nazi super-soldier in a glass tank, called Master Man. They just
needed the final key to recreating Dr Erskine's formula—and they
believed Anderson knows it. He was put into a ghastly device called
the Psyphon which drained him of every last shred of memory. The
formula was added to Master Man's tank and so a Nazi super-soldier
was born! Being a Nazi, Master Man refused to follow orders,
considering himself superior to all others. The Human Torch and Toro
assaulted the barn and Master Man turned out to be impervious to
their flames. Krieghund and MM escaped the conflagration while the
Torch absorbed all the flames and rushed the wounded Dr Anderson to
the hospital. Now Cap and Bucky meet the Torch and Toro and Anderson
tells them they must go to Chesapeake Bay....
“Part Three: The Sub-Mariner
Strikes!”
Synopsis: The four heroes head to
Chesapeake Bay where a German U-boat commanded by Col. Krieghund is
attacking a British battleship. Master Man leaps aboard the ship and
begins taking out their big guns—but one of the seamen is Prince
Namor the Sub-Mariner in disguise and he takes on the super-powered
Nazi who gives him a much harder fight than he had expected. Cap and
the others join in the battle but suddenly Master Man feels himself
weakening and he escapes to the land. Cap and Bucky pursue the
fleeing villain while Torch and Subby sink the U-boat by sending back
its own torpedoes. Meanwhile, as he runs down the street, Master Man
begins to shrink, revealing himself to have been a scrawny little man
before his treatment. When they catch up to him, Cap and Bucky easily
take him down. When the five heroes are reunited at the docks, they
begin arguing among themselves, and then Prime Minister Winston
Churchill—the Nazis' target—rebukes them and suggests they work
together against the common enemy, as unofficial invaders. And they
do....
“Deep-Sea Blitzkrieg!”
Writer/Artists: Bill Everett.
Reprinted from SUB-MARINER COMICS #1
(1941)