Comic Title: Star Spangled War Stories #88
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1959
On Sale Date: October 29, 1959 Copyright Date October 29, 1959
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1959

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Kanigher

Title: "The Steel Trap"
Pages: 14

Feature(s):
Mademoiselle Marie

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Mort Drucker

Reprinted In:
Our Army at War #177 (1967)

Feature Character(s)

• Mademoiselle Marie (last appearance in Star Spangled War Stories #87; next appearance in Star Spangled War Stories #89)

Villain(s)

• Commandant Von Ekt (last appearance in Star Spangled War Stories #87; next appearance in Star Spangled War Stories #89)
• German soldiers (no further appearances)
• Lt. Messer (alias Harry West; a Nazi officer; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Pop and Victor (French Resistance fighters; no further appearances)
• An American soldier and Professor Lane (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
At the command of Commandant Von Ekt, Lt. Messer infiltrates the resistance cell of Mademoiselle Marie. Messer is disguised as American Lt. Harry West, but his temper gives him away as a Nazi. When he tries to lead Marie into a trap, she double-crosses him. Messer is shot by his own men, and Marie successfully completes the rescue of a captured scientist.