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Captain America Comics

#17

August 1942 · 0.10 USD · 68 pages

On sale 1942-06-05


Synopsis

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.

Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3.

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Credits

Script
Red Holmdale, Otto Binder, Mortimer Breen, Stan Lee
Pencils
Al Avison, Red Holmdale, Don Rico, Bill King
Inks
Al Avison, Syd Shores, George Klein, Red Holmdale, Don Rico, Bill King
Associate editor
Al Avison
Managing editor
Stan Lee

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