Digital Comic Museum - Zip Comics 13 (1941)


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Issue: #13
Published: April 1941, 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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2.

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 The Rattler

Comic Story (14 pages)	The Prison Break Racket
Featuring:	Steel Sterling
Synopsis:	Steel "kidnaps" Dora to get to jail and find out who is behind the many jailbreaks.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair [as Blair] (signed) \| Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) \| Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling [John Sterling] Looney Clancy McGinty (Police) Dora Cummings The Rattler (villain) Inferno (guest-star) The Chief (villain, Introduction) His Gang (villains, Introduction)

Comic Story (8 pages)	To Slay a Giant
Featuring:	Dicky in the Magic Forest
Synopsis:	Dick and his father are going back to the Magic Forest to rescue friends from the giant and bring them back safely to Panora.
Credits:	Script: Louis Golden [as L. Golden] (signed) \| Pencils: Louis Golden [as L. Golden] (signed) \| Inks: Louis Golden [as L. Golden] (signed)
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	Dicky Dick's Father Giant Of Komo Castle (villain, Death) Trolls (villains, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Mobsters and the Cowboys
Featuring:	Nevada Jones, Quick-Trigger Man
Synopsis:	City gangsters against riders of the range.
Credits:	Pencils: Frank Volp \| Inks: Frank Volp
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Nevada Jones Little Joe (sidekick) Bill Holmes (introduction) Miss Holmes (introduction) Coke (villain, Introduction) His Gang (villains, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Death In the Wilkins Hotel
Featuring:	Red Reagan
Synopsis:	The description of the suspect of the murder case at Hotel Wilkins sounds like the brother of Miss Lorentz.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair ? \| Pencils: Sam Cooper \| Inks: Sam Cooper
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Red Reagan (Police Detective) Bertie Randolph (assistent) Wilkins (villain, Introduction) J. C. Looper (villain, Introduction, Death) Jack Lorenz (introduction) Miss Lorenz (introduction)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Captured By Ware
Featuring:	War Eagles
Synopsis:	The Eagles are picked up by a German U-boat, but they manage to take over the sub.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair \| Pencils: Ed Smalle (signed) \| Inks: Ed Smalle (signed)
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Tim Shane (pilot) Tom Shane (pilot) Ware (villain, Death?) Nazis (villains)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Desert Ambush
Featuring:	Captain Valor
Synopsis:	Tania, Ronnie and Dallas are taken prisoner by the Japanese and are to be shot.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair ? \| Pencils: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed) \| Inks: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Captain Valor Ronnie Tania Dallas Tania (guest-star) Neek-Olaus (guest-star) Company (guest-star) The Japanese (villains)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Protective Insurance Murders
Featuring:	Scarlet Avenger
Synopsis:	Two people are killed for not paying their life insurance policy to an extortion ring.
Credits:	Script: Harry Shorten ? \| Pencils: Carl Hubbell [as Hubbell] (signed) \| Inks: Carl Hubbell [as Hubbell] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall) Inez Courtney (Operative No.1) The Chief (villain, Introduction, Death) Lefty (villain, Introduction) Other Crooks (villain, Introduction) Walter Miller (introduction, Death) Mary LaRue (introduction, Death)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Karlsgood Caverns Mystery
Featuring:	Zambini the Miracle Man
Synopsis:	Zambini is looking for a man down in the famous Karlsgood Caverns
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair ? \| Pencils: Lin Streeter \| Inks: Lin Streeter
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Zambini (magician) Karl Good (introduction) The Martin Gang (villains, Introduction) Bill Martin (villain, Introduction)

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