Digital Comic Museum - Zip Comics 31 (1942)


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Issue: #31
Published: November 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Harry Shorten
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover, Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Steel Sterling, Web, Black Jack
Credits:	Pencils: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed) \| Inks: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling Web Black Jack

Comic Story (13 pages)	The Merchant of Hate
Featuring:	Web
Synopsis:	This is the tale of a town somewhere in Europe, Lidice, and its destruction by the Nazis.
Credits:	Pencils: Sam Burlockoff ? \| Inks: Sam Burlockoff ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Web [John Raymond] Adolf Hitler (Villain) Heydrich (Villain Intro Death) Nazis (Villain) Mr. And Mrs. Pieter Franck And Their Baby (Intro Jimmy Denning (Intro)

Comic Story (12 pages)	The Creeper
Featuring:	Steel Sterling
Synopsis:	Steel in his struggle against the arch saboteur, the Creeper, who starts as a green costumed attraction at the circus.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair \| Pencils: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed) \| Inks: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling [John Sterling] Clancy McGinty (Police) Looney The Creeper (Villain Intro)

Comic Story (11 pages)	The Clubfoot
Featuring:	Black Jack
Synopsis:	The Clubfoot has come to America to kidnap the exciled King of Ptomania and take him to Germany, but Black Jack gets in his way.
Credits:	Pencils: Red Holmdale (signed) \| Inks: Red Holmdale (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Black Jack [Jack Jones] Clubfoot (Intro Villain Implied He Is Really Josef Goebbels) Schultz (Villain Intro) Hauser (Villain Jan Morski (Intro Death) King Of Ptomania (Intro)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Football Season
Featuring:	Wilbur
Synopsis:	The football season and all the students are out for the team with that good old Westfield spirit.
Credits:	Pencils: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed) \| Inks: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
Genre:	Teen
Characters:	Wilbur Wilkin Principal Tootlefruit

Text Story (2 pages)	Some Killers Work Slowly
Featuring:	A Web Story
Credits:	Script: Scott Feldman \| Letters: typeset
Characters:	Web [John Raymond] Steve Lescott Martha Shannon

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Zoom and Liverlips are on a strafing mission on the Euphrates River and are shot down, but escape and blow up a river dam.
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Zoom O'Day Liverlips General Mueller (villain Introduction) Adolf Hitler (villain) Nazis (villains)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Major Devereux, Warrior of Wake Island
Featuring:	Zip's Hall of Fame
Synopsis:	The battle of Wake Island in the Pacific, December 1941.
Credits:	Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed) \| Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)
Genre:	Non-fiction War
Characters:	Major Devereux

Comic Story (6 pages)	Case No. 2 of People America Can Do Without
Featuring:	Zambini
Synopsis:	On needlessly use of cars when sailors die to bring gasoline.
Credits:	Script: Harry Shorten? \| Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed) \| Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Zambini (magician) Mayor Drake And His Girlfriend (Intro)

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