All Select Comics #9
In "The Tick-Tack-Toe Murder," a desperate old man uses a hidden tic-tac-toe code to send a message to the world, leading Steve Rogers and Bucky to a high-stakes showdown with a ruthless gang. Penciled by Vince Alascia and featuring a striking cover by Alex Schomburg, this 1945 issue delivers a tight, suspenseful mystery where every mark on a scrap of paper could mean life or death.
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Crooks hold an old man hostage for ransom but he smuggles out a code written in tic-tac-toe games. Steve Rogers and Bucky come across gangsters accosting a garbage collector. They change to their costumes and fight them until one of them spooks the garbage collector's horse which takes off with Bucky on top of the wagon. Cap leaves the crooks to rescue Bucky who finds the newspaper with the code. Bucky figures out that it is an address. They arrive just as the crooks were planning on killing the man now that they had received their ransom money. Cap and Bucky defeat the crooks and save him.
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