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AN EAR FOR MUSIC! Story by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby. Art by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby. Reprinted from CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS [1941] #7. Cap has to contend with the return of the Red Skull and figure out why he is using Chopin's 'Funeral March' as the means of his diabolical mission of destruction. THE PHANTOM HOUND OF CARDIFF MOOR. Story by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby. Art by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby. Reprinted from CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS [1941] #10. Cap solves the mystery of Cardiff Manor and a 'ghost' dog, used by the only living relative of the family that once owned the manor. I FOUND THE LAIR OF... THE LIZARD MEN. Story by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber. Art by Don Heck. Reprinted from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY [1952] #64. A convict escapes and hides in a deep cave, where he finds a society of lizard men unable to breathe on the surface. When he tries to steal the diamond that provides their light he is transformed into a lizard man and forced to live among them as an outcast. I WAS TRAPPED IN THE CHAMBER OF FEAR! Story by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber. Art by Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers. Reprinted from TALES OF SUSPENSE [1959] #33. A man tries to pitch to Stan Lee the story of a blackmailer who becomes trapped within a mystic ruby as an agent of Fate to direct recently departed souls to their destination. Stan rejects the story as too outlandish even for Tales of Suspense and the man leaves the office. Outside, the man mutters to himself that his secret is safe since even if the blackmailer escapes the ruby no one will believe him and then he blinks out of existence. GERM WARFARE. Story by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber. Art by Paul Reinman. Reprinted from STRANGE TALES [1951] #90. A medical researcher working while on a boat with friends tries to enlarge a germ to more closely examine it, but it grows to human size and hijacks the boat. The doctor takes the germ to an island where it intends to enlarge an army of microbes to conquer the world, but the germ is destroyed by an atomic test that the doctor knew was planned there. MEET THE FANG, ARCH-FIEND OF THE ORIENT. Story by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby. Art by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby. Reprinted from CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS [1941] #6. Cap and Bucky battle against the evil Fang and Baron Nushima, who seek to prevent two emissaries from China from obtaining money loans from the American government.

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