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Captain America Comics #40 (1944) · The Collector

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Captain America Comics (1941)
#40

Marvel#40

Captain America Comics

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Captain America Comics #40

The Jester of Death / The Bloody Assassin / Auction of Death / The Mystery of the Floating City

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: July 1944
On sale: May 11, 1944
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 60

Key issue

1st appearance of Lyander

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Credits

Writer: Otto Binder
Pencillers: Syd Shores, Vince Alascia, Jimmy Thompson, Allen Bellman
Inkers: Vince Alascia, Allen Bellman
Cover: Syd Shores

Sources

Grand Comics Database issue 3720

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When Steve and Bucky visit the House of Pranks they are met by a jester whom the guests think is a man named Bryce but is really Johnnie Pinkham. Johnny overpowered Bryce a week ago and locked him up in a room in the subbasement. Johnnie wants revenge for a childhood hazing stunt when several of the guests locked him in a graveyard overnight. He manages to kill two of them before Cap and Bucky stop him. When Johnnie attempts to escape, he plunges to his death in an elevator shaft where the elevator automatically returns to the bottom floor.

Editor

Vince Fago

Characters

Lyander· 1st appearance
Adolf Hitler
Herr Loeder
Hirohito
Keeper of the Flash
the Jester

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