Captain America Comics #24 – Key Highlights
- Cover Art: Syd Shores
- Publisher: Timely Comics
- Featured Characters: Captain America, Bucky Barnes & the Human Torch
🔥 Key Significance
- Features the classic Captain America and Bucky adventure “The Vampire Strikes!”
- Includes an early vampire-themed Captain America story
- Also features adventures starring the Human Torch and Toro
- Includes a mystery featuring the Eel of Horror Harbor
- Written and illustrated by several notable Golden Age creators, including Stan Lee and Robert Oksner
📖 Story & Contents
“The Vampire Strikes!”
- The General orders Sgt. Duffy to select three men to install a searchlight atop Vampire’s Mountain
- Duffy chooses Joe Dawson, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes
- The group encounters a vampire who attacks Dawson and drinks his blood
- Dawson is transformed into a vampire, turning the mission into a supernatural battle
“The Monument Murder”
- The Human Torch and Toro travel to Mount Rushmore as patriotic citizens to help clear scrap rock from the memorial
- Their seemingly simple assignment takes a dangerous turn when Toro is shot
“Meet the Eel of Horror Harbor!”
- Steve Rogers and Bucky take jobs at a local shipyard plagued by mysterious ship sinkings
- The vessels are being sunk without the use of explosives, leading the pair into another dangerous investigation
“A Nosy Guy”
- A short text story
“Blondes of a Different Color”
- Script & Art: Guy Blythe
- Dippy tries to protect the arrival of a million dollars in war bonds, only to find himself in jail
“The Mystery of the Song of the Wind”
- Script: Stan Lee
- Art: Robert Oksner
- Roddy and Thomas investigate a mysterious book that several people repeatedly check out
- Roddy discovers that one of the readers is using an ultraviolet lamp to uncover a hidden message in the book
📌 Additional Details
- Page Count: 68 pages
- Color: Full color
- Cover Price: $0.10
