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Issue: Captain America's Weird Tales #74

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Publication Date: October 1949

Issue #74

Detail

Issues: #74 of 2 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comic [round logo]

Indicia Publisher: Marjean Magazine Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- The Red Skull Strikes Again! [Illustration on Cover, Front]1
- For Gold Alone [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Content Items (6 total)

The Red Skull Strikes Again!

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain America; Golden Girl; Red Skull

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Captain America Comics #74 published December 1949
as The Red Skull Strikes Again! [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Updated cover credits from Tony Isabella from Gary Colabuono who was able to glean the information from Marty Nodell's personal effects (August 6, 2006). Cover pencil & ink credits given originally to "Al Avison?".

The Red Skull Strikes Again!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain America; Golden Girl; Villain: Red Skull; Master Judge (introduction); Charon (introduction)

Synopsis: The Red Skull writes Cap's name in the Book of the Dead in Hell so that the Grim Reaper brings Cap down into Hell to battle the Red Skull. Satan allows the Skull his chance for revenge and tells Cap that he can return to the land of mortals if he defeats the Skull. The Red Skull uses the Grim Reaper's weapon against Cap, but Cap still knocks him into the fire pits below. Satan allows Cap to leave Hell.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: 6047

Notes: Last Golden Age Captain America Story. Next Captain America Story in Young Men (Marvel, 1953 series) #24 (December 1953).

The Frozen Ghost!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: After being sentenced to death for armed robbery Dillon escapes into the snow and freezes to death. He returns as a ghost to kill the people responsible for his sentence. When Davis investigates the story, Dillon appears and murders him.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: 5779

For Gold Alone

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

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In Content Item: Flag

Crime Can't Win #42 [2] published December 1950
as For Gold Alone [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 2

Job Number: 5672

The Thing in the Swamps!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: John tells Townsless of his family curse: 100 years earlier his ancestor lured Peter into marshland and let him die in quicksand. Peter cursed John and his descendants to become the Marsh Monster, a hideous creature, once they turned 30. Soon after talking to Townsleee, John becomes 30 and transforms into the Marsh Monster. As he was the last Vandiver Peter's ghost is finally satisfied.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: 5886

Notes: Inks credit from atlastales.com

The Tomb of Terror

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: The Fosters find the tomb of Tut-Lak-Omor, a pharaoh so evil only his heart was buried. The heart possesses Sal-Hammin with the spirit of the Black Pharaoh and he menaces Rae but Leo tricks him into returning the heart to the box. Sal-Hammin dies.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: 5379