Captain America Comics #50
In "The Walking Dead," a dying boy entrusts his sister with a deadly secret—a bioweapon formula hidden in a locket, meant for the war department only if the tide of war turns catastrophically. When Japanese agents, disguised as zombies, infiltrate a cemetery to steal the locket, Captain America and Bucky intervene, leading to a fiery climax that destroys the locket in a furnace. Written by an unknown hand and illustrated by Clem Weisbecker with inks by Allen Bellman, this 1945 issue features a chilling wartime thriller with a haunting moral, its cover by Alex Schomburg capturing the eerie, urgent tone of the story.
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A girl's dying brother creates a bioweapon which produces a localized death rain and leaves the formula in a locket he wishes buried with him because he thinks the weapon is too awful to use. He doesn't destroy it outright because he wants his sister to give it to the war dept. if things start looking really bad. Japanese hear of the weapon's one field test and wish to acquire it so they dress up as zombies while they search the cemetery for the brother's body. Cap and Bucky bust them up, and during the fighting the locket is dropped into a furnace and destroyed. Cap says that it is just as well because America would never be in such dire straits that it would use such a horrible weapon.
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