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Captain America Comics #39 (1944) · The Collector

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Captain America Comics (1941)
#39

Marvel#39

Captain America Comics

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Captain America Comics #39

Terror of the Ghost Harpoon / Riders of Death / Rockets of Doom / The Case of the Talking Crystal Ball / Tarbu's Mission of Death

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: June 1944
On sale: Apr 18, 1944
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 60

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Credits

Writer: Otto Binder
Pencillers: Syd Shores, Allen Bellman, Jimmy Thompson, Mike Sekowsky
Inkers: Vince Alascia, Allen Bellman, Ken Bald, Allen Simon
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Grand Comics Database issue 3663

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Cap and Bucky visit Nantucket where they meet a crazy old man who wants to destroy a ship named "Moby Dick" because it reminds him of losing his two sons at sea. He makes an ally of the ship’s first mate, but when the man betrays him and tries to buy the ship from Molly instead of letting the craft rot, the old man hurls a harpoon at him to try and kill him. Cap blocks the harpoon with his shield and chases the first mate up the mast. During the fight, the man falls to his death on the deck below. Now that the old man's "curse" is broken, Molly's seagoing future looks brighter.

Alex Schomburg

Editor

Vince Fago

Characters

Adolf Hitler
Captain America
Carl Von Brummel
Prof. Tarbu
The Death Riders

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