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Captain America Comics #17 (1942) · The Collector

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Captain America Comics (1941)
#17

Marvel#17

Captain America Comics

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Captain America Comics #17

The Monster from the Morgue / Sub-Earthmen's Revenge! / The China Road / Machine of Doom!

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: August 1942
On sale: Jun 5, 1942
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Credits

Writers: Red Holmdale, Otto Binder, Stan Lee
Pencillers: Al Avison, Red Holmdale, Don Rico
Inkers: Syd Shores, George Klein, Red Holmdale, Don Rico
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Grand Comics Database issue 2346

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A jealous scientist named Dr. Weirdler learns one of his colleagues has developed a serum that will reanimate dead bodies and is planning on testing it on a recently deceased gorilla. Dr. Weirdler takes the brain of an executed criminal named Killer Kole and places it in the gorilla's body. The experiment doesn't seem to work and the medical students bury the gorilla's body where the grave is struck by lightning and Killer Kole is revived. His goes to the zoo and breaks out a pair of gorillas for his mob and then sets out on a path of vengeance against the three judges who sent him to the chair. Dr. Weirdler informs Cap about the beast terrorizing the city and then takes a knife thrown at Cap to atone for his crime. Cap socks Killer Kole off a highrise and he falls to his doom.

Al Avison

Associate editor

Al Avison

Managing editor

Stan Lee

Characters

Ah Kee
Bucky
Bucky Barnes
Captain America
Jerry Dash
Mr. Eckman
Mrs. Colt
Mrs. Kemp
Mrs. Thompkins
Private Blackout
Private McQuirk
Sergeant Duffy
Sergeant Thunder
Steve Rogers
The Fighting Yank
the Japanese
The Secret Stamp
un-named criminal gang
un-named District Attorney
un-named Japanese leader

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