Believe it or not, #75 diesn't even feature Captain America. The title was now a horror comic! This was the final issue of the series from the 1940's. The title would return a few years later...

...In the 1950's!

Now Captain America and Bucky are "Commie Smashers"! This version of Captain America and Bucky would later be retconned so that it wasn't really Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. Also, the post-war Captain America comics above were later said to have been other look-a-likes that took the duo's place after they appraently died trying to stop Baron Zemo's bomb (a story that was a retcon by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in "Avengers" #4 (1964). I don't believe Baron Zemo ever actually appeared in a Golden-Age story).

You might note that the above covers are early John Romita Sr. works.

And this ended the original run of "Captain America." He also starred in "All-Select Comics," "All-Winners Comics," and "Marvel Mystery Comics" through the Golden-Age. 

I love 'em.  I just wish I could afford more.  Luckily I do have a fair amount of "Captain America: Commie Smasher" books I bought on the cheap in the mid 80's.

I like trades, but I LOVE holding those old mags in my hands.

Michael Arndt wrote: ...Really would love to read more of these stories from this time period. Wish they would reprint them in tpb...

So do I! As far as I can tell or recall, Marvel hasn't reprinted the "Captain America Comics" beyond #10 in trade paperback. It can't be a PC-thing, as the first ten also has some decidely un-PC things about them, and Marvel has reprinted the "Young Allies." Maybe it's because Marvel doesn't have any sufficient copies or scans to work with?

Steve Adelson wrote: ...I like the books -- I own a couple -- but the question is rather vague, IMO...

It's because I'm talking in a general sense. Why must everything on a message board be contentious? This is supposed to be a fun thread. I'm sorry if my question was difficult for you to answer.

Looking over the wartime covers, I got to thinking that the Timely characters were more involved with battling the Nazis and the Japanese than most other comics characters. I mean, yeah, I know Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Plastic Man, and all the rest were fighting the evil axis powers, too, but it seems that only the occassional cover reflected that. Nearly every Timely superhero cover during the war was a battlefield or battlefront cover, in contrast.

I also think it's interesting to note that after the war, towards the end of the 1940's, the focus on most of the Timely heroes covers shifted away from the guys, and started focusing on new female partners, and other women. Both Toro and Bucky were replaced by superwomen, Sun Girl and Golden Girl.