Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age #1 (2009)

Table of contents pages, complete with short synopses, illustrated with the cover to Captain America Comics #7.

Agent Zero is being pursued by a group of Nazis, who are intent on securing a code from him. Inadvertently, the members of the Sentinels of Liberty Club, who call themselves the Young Allies, chase the enemy from their clubhouse and discover the agent inside, and agree to help him send a message.

The Young Allies arrive at Lone Pine and overhear a conversation between Agents Zero and X concerning the code key the Nazis were interested in, but soon find themselves battling Nazi spies who want that code. After the fray, Agent Zero is gone but has left a trail for the boys to follow that leads to a cemetery, where he has been taken, and they run smack into the Red Skull, who overpowers the Allies and takes Agent Zero with him.

On the trail of the Red Skull and Agent Zero, the boys stow away on a British freighter heading for England, but are discovered and put to work. However, there is a Nazi agent aboard who wishes to blow the ship up and the Allies with it. They stop him, are rewarded, land in England, help stop a Luftwaffe bombing of a city, then start on their journey to Germany, nearly being poisoned by a member of the Master Race in the process.

The Allies make their way into Germany and enter a HQ building and come face-to-face with the Red Skull, who has been torturing Agent Zero. The Skull has his men take the boys to a concentration camp, but Toro makes good their escape through the barbed wire. Toro then disguises himself as the Red Skull and re-enters the HQ building, hoping to make good the Allies escape from Germany with Agent Zero.

Grabbing Agent Zero, Toro leads Agent Zero toward the planned escape, when the real Red Skull heads them off. The sudden appearance of Hitler allows the boys and Agent Zero to escape. The Nazis are quickly on their trail, but are rebuffed by the Russians. Meanwhile, the Young Allies meet up with forces of General Chiang Kai-shek and arrange for passage on a ship back to America when they suddenly find themselves in the middle of a Tong war!

The Young Allies and Agent Zero finally board a ship for America, and return home to the clubhouse, where Agent Zero leaves them to locate a tombstone in the cemetery that has the key to code. Unfortunately, the Red Skull lies in wait and captures the group, but Jeffrey uses his pocket transmitter to alert Captain America and the Human Torch to rescue them.

A star newspaper reporter has a novel idea on how to capture the criminals who robbed the Billingslys.

Among the unsolved mysteries discussed are: The Boy Without a Brain, Voodoo in Hungary, The Superstition Mountains, The Skulls of Calgarth, Mystery of the Gloriana, the Cat From Voss, Giant Heads, The Man From Another World and "He is Not Dead!"

Black Talon makes an agreement with Nazi butcher Baron Boche to obtain a portion of American land that could provide raw materials for the Nazi war machine. Talon remembers hearing about a Dr. Livingstone, who was searching for undiscovered land, and when the Allies discover a bottle in the water with a message from that doctor inside, Talon's men manhandle the boys and Livingstone's wife to get that bottle and message inside.

Repelling the Black Talon and his men, the Young Allies and Dora read the message from her father inside the bottle about this land he calls New America. The group books passage on a ship to discover this land and lay claim to it, but the Black Talon kidnaps Dora first and threatens to torture the information out of her. The Young Allies rescue her and are invited to spend the night at her house before leaving on the voyage. Unfortunately for them, the Black Talon and his men enter the home through an underground passage and toss the Bucky and Toro into a whirlpool under the home.

Rescued from the whirlpool and holding off a giant dealy spider, the Young Allies grab Dora and attempt to escape from her home and the clutches of the Black Talon. Arriving at the ship that will take them on their voyage, the group is shocked to discover the Black Talon and his men have taken over the ship. After a brief struggle, the Black Talon's crew retreats and a Captain Weatherbee, with the Young Allies as the crew, sets sail for New America, not knowing the Black Talon is hiding on board!

Not able to find the Black Talon aboard, the Young Allies are thrilled to finally arrive to the land they are searching for, but a sudden storm strikes and all believe Toro died in the storm. The Black Talon meets with the island's inhabitants and arranges for them to kill the Young Allies while he finds the treasure discovered by Dora's father. Escaping from that peril with the help of Toro, the Young Allies and Dora receive a drum message from her father and they seek him out. Unfortunately, and as Bucky soon discovers, Captain Weatherbee is actually the Black Talon in disguise!

The Young Allies chase the Black Talon into an underground passage inside a pyramid in the Haunted City on the island, but are trapped until rescued by Martin Livingstone himself. Then the group races out to save Dora from the evil clutches of the Black Talon and Baron Boche.

The Young Allies, along with Dora and Martin Livingstone, become the prisoners of the Nazi horde, but soon escape and take off in a Nazi plane. The plane is chased and shot down by the Black Talon, who pitches the Young Allies into the tentacles of a giant octopus. They escape and Toro flies back to America to enlist the aid of Captain America and the Torch, who help to defeat the Black Talon's forces once and for all.

Newspaper reporter Randy Lincoln is on the trail of a kidnapped boy, who had wandered into a park and disappeared. Soon after, it is discovered that he was kidnapped and a large ransom is being demanded.

Without knowing it, the Young Allies run into and are trapped by the Khan, a man desiring to become master of the western hemisphere, and involved in the planning stages of a Nazi and Japanese take-over of Alaska.

Believing the Young Allies destroyed, the Khan and his men move on toward Alaska (via Canada by train).

Trapped in a swampland area, a plane spots the boys and transports them to the Yukon for medical assistance. The Young Allies, upon their recovery, buy a cheap car and head out to find their adversary, who already knows they are in country. They are captured and taken to the Khan's huge secret Alaskan underground airport.

The Khan begins his invasion of Alaska, and the Young Allies escape from the secret airport and head for Alaska to alert U.S. defense forces of the impending attack. While there, they confront the Khan inside a U.S. arsenal that is suddenly hit by bombs from an Japanese plane!

Barely surviving the explosion, the Young Allies scramble out of the arsenal and spot a huge opening of a pipe leading underground, and out of the pipe suddenly emerges a huge Japanese invasion force. Toro takes to the air to alert U.S. forces and a battle royal ensues, resulting in the Khan's death and a rout of his forces.

Dan sees a plane sputter in the air and crash land, and heads out to look for it and the pilots who were aboard. He doesn't realize that those men are spies with bombs on board to be used to bomb the Coolidge Dam.

Casey succeeds in ferreting out the true killer of Baldy Bean: a phony Police Commissioner.

Casey is awarded a medal for solving the murder of Baldy Bean, then spots a suspicious beautiful girl. He follows her and breaks into an apartment she enters and falsely arrests her and some other card players!

Casey is ordered by the commissioner to bring in parolee Killer Diller, not knowing that he was awarded a prize while in prison for a true story he wrote.

A crooked diamond expert is refused citizenship because of his many convictions for jewel robberies and threatens revenge by stealing vital industrial black diamonds.

The police commissioner is livid with Casey for rounding up a ring of counter fitters, believing them to be counterfeiters!

When Big Dope is released from prison, Casey tails him, suspicious that he will go back to his previous career in crime...but the joke is on him!

The true story of U.S. AAF Captain Kelly is told, including the heroic sacrifice of his life, when he rammed his plane into the Japanese Battleship Haruna off the coast of Luzon.

Having escaped from certain death after falling from an airplane, the Red Skull begins a campaign to sabotage the entire American defense effort. The Young Allies and Betty Ross confront the Skull several times unsuccessfully, and finally they call in the Human Torch and Captain America to bring the battle to a successful conclusion.

Five of the toughest criminals alive head out to Alaska on a search for a fabulous treasure, unaware that only one of them would discover the treasure alive. The ironic part is that the other four, now dead, discovered that treasure, then threw it away!

The publishers donated this space, on behalf of the U.S. Savings Bonds and War Stamps campaign, to published a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., encouraging the boys and girls of America to buy at least one 10 cent Savings Stamp each week to help the war effort.

Pedro heads into town to steal cinnamon candy, but when he and his men arrive, the Sheriff tells him that Don Rico has already robbed the towns people of everything they own.

Thumbing a ride, the Vagabond becomes a victim of thieves after the load of rare perfumes being carried in the truck he is riding in.