Captain America Comics #57
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Death On the Downbeat," Captain America and Bucky take on a cunning criminal who uses a look-alike singer to pull off a series of robberies—complete with a doctor who hides the imposter in a large instrument case. With the women claiming to have seen the singer commit the crimes, and the doctor spinning a tale of psychological influence, the police are fooled. When the duo confronts the ruse on a train, the deception unravels in a tense, knife-wielding showdown. The story, illustrated by Al Avison with inks by Jim Mooney, features a cover by Vince Alascia.
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A criminal alters his looks so that he resembles a popular singer. The singer's doctor carries him around in a large instrument case and lets him out to rob audiences. They do this to establish an alibi for the theft. The women tell the police that they were robbed by the singer, and yet the singer was onstage at the time. The doctor gives the police some psychobabble about how the women are deeply influenced by the singer and they imagine him to be the thief and the police buy into this story and release him. When Cap and Bucky confront the doctor on a train, the duplicate tosses a knife in close quarters combat and the doctor takes it in the back. Cap hands the duplicate over to the police.
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