Captain America Comics #17
Cover AMarket Value
- Graded copies for sale
- $455 - $15,000
- 20 graded copies listed, as of Sep 29, 2026
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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.
Cover Date
August 1, 1942
On Sale Date
June 5, 1942
Pages
68
Cover Price
$0.10
Editor
Al Avison
Credits
Writer
Penciller
Inker
Characters
Ah Kee (villain, death); Bucky; Captain America; Clem; Dr. Jason Weirdler (Dr. Austin's assistant, death); Dr. Thomas Austin; General Haywood; General Keller; James Buchanan Barnes; Jensen (Mott's assistant, death); Jerry Dash (newspaper reporter); Judge Basset; Judge Hudson (death); Judge Johnson; Killer Kole (villain, introduction, death, human brain in gorilla body); Le Bull (villain, introduction, death); Mr. Eckman; Mrs. Colt (Roddy's mother); Mrs. Kemp (Roddy's teacher); Mrs. Thompkins; Private Blackout; Private McQuirk; Prof. Mott (villain, introduction, death); Queen Medusa (introduction); Sergeant Duffy; Sergeant Thunder; Steve Rogers; Sub-Earth Men (temporary villains, introduction, some die); The Fighting Yank [Bill Prince] (introduction, not the Better Publications character); the Japanese (villains); The Secret Stamp [Roddy Colt]; The Spook [Hans Knutte] (villain, introduction, posing as news reporter); un-named criminal gang (villains); un-named district attorney; un-named Japanese leader (villain)