Digital Comic Museum - Zip Comics 04 (1940)


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Issue: #4
Published: May 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Abner Sundell
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover, Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/) The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Steel Sterling
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) \| Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Characters:	Steel Sterling

Comic Story (12 pages)	The Radium Robbers
Featuring:	Steel Sterling
Synopsis:	Cummings is suspected of stealing all the radium from his own hospital, and his daughter gets the help of detective Sterling.
Credits:	Script: Charles Biro ? \| Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) \| Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling [John Sterling] Walter Cummings (scientist) Dora Cummings (daughter) Black Knight (villain)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Mugsy
Credits:	Script: Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed) \| Pencils: Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed) \| Inks: Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Mugsy (dog)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Scarlet Avenger
Synopsis:	The Scarlet Avenger has come to grips with Texa, a beautiful Amazon, the queen of crime. She will use his powerfull brains in her next crime, to snatch the president.
Credits:	Script: Harry Shorten (credited) \| Pencils: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed) \| Inks: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall) Texa (Villain) President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Comic Story (6 pages)	Slade Bowman's Boast
Featuring:	Nevada Jones, Quick-Trigger Man
Synopsis:	Nevada Jones is ordered by the governor to catch the train robber, Slade Bowman.
Credits:	Pencils: Frank Volp \| Inks: Frank Volp
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Nevada Jones Little Joe (sidekick) Slade Bowman (train Bandit) Bud Jones (undercover Man)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Kalthar is taken prisoner by the tribe of Shem and taken to their king, Pharoah.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kalthar Bwonga Pharoah Bogdu (ape)

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Munitions Works Mission
Featuring:	War Eagles
Synopsis:	The Eagles blow up a German munitions works but must ditch their planes.
Credits:	Pencils: Ed Smalle \| Inks: Ed Smalle
Genre:	War
Characters:	Tim Shane (pilot) Tom Shane (pilot) Kermit (pilot) Herr Schultz (Villain)

Text Story (2 pages)	Frontier Tamers
Synopsis:	A two-gun devastator meets his match in a prairie raccoon.
Credits:	Pencils: ? [as D.H.M.] (signed) (2 spot illustrations) \| Inks: ? [as D.H.M.] (signed) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction Western-frontier
Characters:	Wanglin (gunman) Tom Smith Raccoon (mascot)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Yat Sing's Poison Plot
Featuring:	Captain Valor
Synopsis:	Captain Valor and Big Dip are led into a trap by a girl named Tania and fall into the hands of Yat Sing, who prepares to execute them.
Credits:	Script: Abner Sundell [as Sundall] (credited) \| Pencils: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed) \| Inks: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Captain Valor Ronnie His Sister Angie Big Dip Yat Sing (Villain) Tania (Villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Diamond Cattle Smugglers
Featuring:	Mr. Satan
Synopsis:	Corn cobs are used to smugglle diamonds.
Credits:	Script: Edd Ashe \| Pencils: Edd Ashe \| Inks: Edd Ashe
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Mr. Satan (Dudley Bradshaw) Doris O'Day (rancher)

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Daughter of the Mermen
Featuring:	Zambini the 'Miracle Man'
Synopsis:	The mermen beneath the sea have sent their great wizard, Magi, to America to bring back a young girl who is their last descendant on earth.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair \| Pencils: Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed) \| Inks: Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Zambini (magician) Magi (Villain Introduction)

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