Samson Scythe pays the ultimate price for his involvement in a Coast Guard ship’s explosion! Cap trails crime boss Sean Gamble to learn more about the demise of Carlo Ferrini.
Watching criminals being killed is the favorite pastime of wealthy & eccentric Samson Scythe. After Scythe lures Cap into a meeting & tells him he would like to start killing heroes instead, Scythe coerces Cap into coming to his estate where he has deadly traps waiting for him. (Cover date: October, 1981)