All Select Comics #3 (1944)

The director of an art museum and his daughter Julie are working late at night at the museum where priceless jewels are on display. They are visited by Prince Suli who has gifted the museum and is brought on a tour to see the jewels. To their surprise, Prince Suli robs them with the assistance of a pair of massive apes, and flee. Days later, Steve Rogers and James Buchanan Barnes are walking back to base when they are caught in the rain and go to seek refuge under a bridge. There they find some hobos warming themselves in front of a fire. One of the homeless men (who unknown to them is really Prince Suli) invites them with open arms. The pair, finding his well spoken tongue suspicious, accept his offer and are witness to a fight that breaks out between their host and one of the other homeless men. When Steve and James break up the fight. When the man attempts to flee, he seemingly twists his ankle and allows himself to be taken into police custody on an assault charge. As Steve and James drive back to base, they find it suspicious that the man was so insistent on being arrested. When they hear a radio report about about the robbery of the jewels and how Prince Suli and Julie have gone missing without a trace. Steve makes a connection to the homeless man they turned over to the police. Returning there as Captain America and Bucky, the two get the sheriff to help orchestrate a prison break for Prince Suli. When Captain America reveals that he knows Prince Suli's true identity, the Prince agrees to go with them. As they are on their way to Prince Suli's hideout, Captain America explains to him that he broke Suli out of prison for the sole purposes of freeing Julie from captivity. When they get into Suli's castle through a secret passage, Suli unleashes a trap door on the heroes. They land into a room where they find Julie being terrorized by Suli's apes. There Suli explains the reason he allowed himself to be arrested as to hideout someplace in plain sight until the heat died down, but because Captain America and Bucky have interfered with his plans, he orders his apes to kill them all. Captain America holds off the apes while Bucky knocks over an oil lamp and rushes out of the room with the girl. Cap joins them and he and Bucky slam the door shut and hold it tight until the apes die from the fire. When they confront Prince Suli, he attempts to shoot Captain America, but the hero plays possum and both he and Bucky jump at him. When Suli attempts to escape by diving into the waters below his castle, Captain America dives in after him and yanks him out of the water. With Suli tied up, Captain America orders Julie to call the authorities and he and Bucky leave the scene.