Story #2Sando and Omar
Writer/Penciler/Inker:
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon.
Synopsis
Stage hypnotist
Sando mesmerizes his dwarfish assistant
Omar into predicting acts of sabotage against the United States. When the predictions all come true,
Captain America and
Bucky investigate and confront Sando onstage. With the aid of government agent
Betty Ross, they unmask Sando as a
Gestapo agent and put an end to his schemes to terrorize America with his phony predictions.
Story #3Captain America and the Soldiers’ Soup
Writer:
Unknown. Penciler/Inker:
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon.
Synopsis
Late one night,
Steve Rogers is awakened by a sudden silence in camp —he goes out to investigate and finds the sentry unconscious. Changing into
Captain America he trails the intruders to the cook house where he finds a pair of thugs preparing to poison the soldiers’ soup. Cap leaps into action, and with
Bucky who arrives shortly, the villains are overpowered and confess to the police. At a camp gathering the next day, the Colonel expresses his gratitude to the mysterious hero Captain America.
Story #4Chessboard
Writer/Penciler/Inker:
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon.
Synopsis
Nazi mastermind
Rathcone uses a chessboard to determine which high-ranking American military officer his men will kill. When Captain
America and
Bucky pursue the killers of an admiral, the villain adds their figures to his chessboard. Bucky is lured into a trap and taken prisoner. Cap tracks him down, frees Bucky and together they mop up Rathcone’s spy operation.
Story #5Captain America and the Riddle of the Red Skull
Writer/Penciler/Inker:
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon.
Synopsis
A masked killer known as the
Red Skull is murdering military officers.
Captain America and
Bucky prevent the Red Skull’s henchmen from robbing a bank but the mastermind gets away. Shortly after an aircraft built by the Maxon company crashes due to sabotage, another general is killed by the Red Skull. Cap, arriving on the scene too late to save the officer, battles the
Nazi agent but is overpowered. Bucky comes to his rescue and the Skull is unmasked as
George Maxon, head of the aircraft company. Cap stands back while Maxon kills himself with his own poison injection. Later the
FBI uncovers all of Maxon’s terroristic activities.
Story #6Murder Ltd.
Writer:
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon. Penciler/Inker:
Jack Kirby.
Synopsis
Hurricane, last of the
Greek immortals, arrives in
Coast City, where he detects the hand of his ancient enemy
Pluto behind a recent rash of gangland slayings. He heads to the hideout of gangster
Piggy Perroni, subdues his henchmen in a wink, and introduces himself as hitman
Mike Cury (
Mercury, get it?). When Piggy assigns him to a hit, Hurricane whirls into action, taking out the remaining hoods and delivering Perroni to
Police Commissioner Regan and
D.A. Nelson. The speedy hero then heads to a swanky estate where a society costume part is in progress, there to meet
Paul Sayden, the real mastermind. Sayden, dressed as
Satan (Sayden, get it?) is really Pluto, and he proceeds to poison the party punch. Hurricane arrives in an angel costume and challenges his enemy to battle, punching him into the punch. The epic battle cows the gusts and when the police arrive, Hurricane tells them that Paul Sayden will trouble them no more before vanishing as suddenly as he came, with a promise to return.
Story #7Stories from the Dark Ages
Writer:
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon. Penciler/Inker:
Jack Kirby.
Synopsis
The blond and hairless
Tuk is summoned by his dying foster-father,
Ak, last of the
Hairy Ones, to hear a strange story. Years earlier, Ak had witnessed a pair of beautiful and hairless people being stranded on his shore, with the male vowing revenge. Almost immediately, the man,
Phadion, is killed protecting his family from a horned beast, and Ak rescued the woman
Rhaya and her child and took them to his cave. Not long after Rhaya was slain by a lion and now Ak reveals that Tuk is the orphaned boy. Ak dies and Tuk sets out to find his destiny; he is attacked by two killers from the savage
Gorek tribe, and is rescued by another
Cro-Magnon,
Tanir the Hunter. Tanir offers to join Tuk on his quest (which Ak did not mention and Tuk does not explain).