All Select Comics #2 (1943)

The Red Skull has returned to the United States with an army of minions to commit acts of sabotage on American defense factories. His activities prompt the military to call in Captain America for help. As they begin planning how to best deal with the Skull, the villain takes over a radio broadcast and boasts about his victories and tells the listening audience that he intends to blow up the Titanic Explosive Factory. Captain America tells the commanding officer to place a guard around the building in order to defend it from attack. Sure enough, Private Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes are assigned as part of a guard detail. However, when night falls, the Red Skull and his minions manage to get past the military and set off their explosives. When Steve and James change into Captain America and Bucky the pair find no trace of the Red Skull or his minions on site. The commanding general who followed Captain America's orders is chewed out by his superior officers who order him to no longer use Captain America on this case. When the Red Skull next broadcasts that he is going to attack the Goliath Tank Factory his men parachute from an aircraft over the factory. This time Captain America and Bucky arrive on the scene to try to stop the Red Skull and his men. When the Red Skull climbs into a completed tank and uses it to try to destroy his hated enemy, Captain America is forced to blow the tank up, but the Red Skull manages to escape. Watching as the Red Skull and his men escape in an ambulance, they follow after him on motorcycle to a nearby hospital. There they find that the entire facility has been overrun by Nazi spies and are soon defeated in combat. The Red Skull then places Captain America inside an iron lung in order to kill him with steam while he prepares to perform a grisly operation on Bucky. Captain America manages to break free by loosening his belt buckle and using it to remove the screws keeping the lid of the iron lung clamped shut. He then rushes into the operating theater and easily knocks out the Red Skull and his men and rescue Bucky. When the Red Skull is turned over to the authorities, the two heroes return to their civilian guises. When they are back at Camp Lehigh, Sgt. Duffy wonders why he can't have soldiers like Captain America instead of being stuck with Rogers and Barnes.