Captain America Comics #9

Marvel ⋅ 1941

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Key Facts

1st appearance and origin of Black Talon, a painter who became a killer after having his crushed hand replaced by an executed murderer's hand

Issue Details

Publisher

Marvel

Artist

Jack Kirby

Writer

Simon and Kirby

Published

December 1941

Synopsis

  The White Death   Cap and Bucky must tackle a white cloaked, hideous figure that stalks the halls of the mansion of the late Josiah Harrow....a figure that has chosen the duo as its next target for death!   The Man Who Could Not Die--   When criminal Nick Pinto was strapped into the electric chair and executed, Cap and Bucky are more than a little concerned when another criminal, responsible for sending Pinto to his death, calls Police HQ with his last breath and tells them that Pinto has just fatally shot him.   Death in the Alps   Headline Hunter heads for Switzerland in response to many strange accidents that are occuring there, but when he arrives he has to stop another "strange" accident that he gets in the middle of.   The Case of the Black Talon   Cap and Bucky have a devilish time in cornering an insane murderer who, forced by fate to paint horrendous portraits, decides to paint these type of paintings of the men he intends to murder!

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