Digital Comic Museum - Zip Comics 07 (1940)


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Issue: #7
Published: August 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)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling

Comic Story (14 pages)	Uwana's Life-or-Death Loan Company
Featuring:	Steel Sterling
Synopsis:	Witnesses are killed for testifying against protection and loan racketeers.
Credits:	Script: Abner Sundell [as Sundell] (signed) \| Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) \| Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling [John Sterling] Dora Cummings Clancy McGinty (Police) A District Attorney (villain, Introduction, Death) The Uwana Loan Company (villains, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Head in the Parachute
Featuring:	Scarlet Avenger
Synopsis:	The severed head of a witness in a policy racket case lands in a parachute in the street, as a warning.
Credits:	Script: Harry Shorten (signed) \| Pencils: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed) \| Inks: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall) Inez Courtney (Operative No.1) Maxie Malarky (villain, Introduction) John Doughboy (introduction, Death)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Cervantes's Sacrifice Cult
Featuring:	Nevada Jones, Quick-Trigger Man
Synopsis:	Nevada and Little Joe are witnesses to a human sacrifice in an old castle in the desert town of Taranto.
Credits:	Inks: Frank Volp \| Colours: Frank Volp
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Nevada Jones Little Joe (sidekick) Don Cervantes (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Prof. Goodwill has discovered a diamond vein in an ancient city and is taken prisoner by men who would force him to tell where the secret vein is.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kalthar Pierre LeBrun (villain) Kate Goodwill Prof. Goodwill

Comic Story (8 pages)	The U-Boat Aircraft Carriers
Featuring:	War Eagles
Synopsis:	The Germans will launch airplanes from a U-boat off Plymouth.
Credits:	Pencils: Ed Smalle, Jr. (signed) \| Inks: Ed Smalle, Jr. (signed)
Genre:	War
Characters:	Tim Shane (pilot) Tom Shane (pilot) Kermit (pilot) Anton Schultz (villain)

Text Story (2 pages)	Carnival Killer
Synopsis:	In among the circus tents and wagons, death would strike tonight, and none would ever know why, or from whence it came.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Zorine Raol Carolyn

Comic Story (8 pages)	Fire on the Junk
Featuring:	Captain Valor
Synopsis:	Valor and his friends are marooned on a barren island off the Chinese coast. Yat Sing and his followers are also on the island and try to kill Valor, but Tania wants them all to join forces.
Credits:	Script: Abner Sundell [as Sundell] (signed) \| Pencils: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed) \| Inks: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Captain Valor Yat Sing (villain) Tania (villain) Ronnie (guest-star) Angie (guest-star) Big Dip (guest-star)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Zotter the Blackmailer
Featuring:	Mr. Satan
Synopsis:	Mr. Satan smashes up a blackmailer gang hiding on an old freighter in the harbor.
Credits:	Script: Abner Sundell \| Pencils: Edd Ashe \| Inks: Edd Ashe
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Mr. Satan (Dudley Bradshaw) Doris O'Day Gladys Zotter (villain, Introduction) His Blackmailing Gang (villains, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Abdul Khil's Trap for Zambini
Featuring:	Zambini the 'Miracle Man'
Synopsis:	Abdul Khil, leader of the Black Magic Magicians, plots Zambini's death when he arrives in Morocco.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair (signed) \| Pencils: Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed) \| Inks: Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Zambini (magician) Abdul Khil (villain, Introduction, Turns Into A Donkey)

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