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Issue: Captain America Comics #40
Publication Date: July 1944
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Issues: #40 of 73 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Complete Photo Story Corp.
On Sale Date: 05/11/1944
Volume: 2
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 3.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S. (through about early 1944, narrower thereafter)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky Barnes
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Pages: 1
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The Jester of Death

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Johnnie Pinkham] (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: 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.
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Pages: 12
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The Bloody Assassin

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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): Al Gabriele?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Herr Loeder (first appearance; villain); Franz (first appearance; villain); Fritz (first appearance; villain); other Nazi spies (first appearance; villains); Gen. Mershing (first appearance)
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Pages: 7
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Auction of Death

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Keeper of the Flash (villain, introduction, death); Adolf Hitler (villain); Hirohito (villain)
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Pages: 16
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Periscope Ahead

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Letterer(s): typeset
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The Mystery of the Floating City

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lyander (introduction)
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The Murder of Brenda Kane

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Genres: mystery
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