Digital Comic Museum - Zip Comics 17 (1941)


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Issue: #17
Published: August 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. 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)	Flood!
Featuring:	Steel Sterling
Synopsis:	Weeks of rainfall swell Mid-Western streams to the bursting point.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair (signed) \| Pencils: Irv Novick \| Inks: Irv Novick
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Steel Sterling [John Sterling] Clancy McGinty (Police) Dora Cummings Kemp (villain, Introduction) Zeke Ross (introduction, Death)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Captain Valor Joins the Marines
Featuring:	Captain Valor
Synopsis:	Captain Valor rejoins the Marines.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair ? \| Pencils: Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed) \| Inks: Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)
Characters:	Captain Valor Mike Ahearn (Marine) Karl Hugo

Comic Story (6 pages)	Cow-Critters Ain't Got Wings
Featuring:	Nevada Jones, Quick-Trigger Man
Synopsis:	Rustlers get the stolen cattle through a waterfall and lowered down from a cave on the other side.
Credits:	Pencils: Frank Volp \| Inks: Frank Volp
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Nevada Jones Little Joe (sidekick) J. S. Michaels (introduction) Miss Michaels (introduction) Cattle Rustlers (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Corpse That Breathed Death
Featuring:	Red Reagan
Synopsis:	A cancerous corpse strikes with its icy breath, freezing the blood of doctors at the hospital.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair ? \| Pencils: Sam Cooper \| Inks: Sam Cooper
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Red Reagan (Police Detective) Bertie Randolph (assistent) The Corpse [Dr. Bentley] (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Sonia the Spy
Featuring:	War Eagles
Synopsis:	The twins escape from Denmark in a German E-boat, but land in England in a dingy.
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair \| Pencils: Ed Smalle (signed) \| Inks: Ed Smalle (signed)
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Tim Shane (pilot) Tom Shane (pilot) Swen Olsen (gunner) Sonia Von Lickt (villain, Introduction) Eric Von Lickt (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Captured By a Witch
Featuring:	Dicky in the Magic Forest
Synopsis:	Dicky and Jackie are making a tour upon the witch's flying broom, when the witch catches them and prepares to cook them to eat.
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 Farenwell Jackie A Witch (villain, Death) Jackie (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Death of a Clown
Featuring:	Scarlet Avenger
Synopsis:	The circus had something to do with the robberies that are sweeping the country.
Credits:	Script: Harry Shorten (signed) \| Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed) \| Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Scarlet Avenger [Jim Kendall] Inez Courtney [Operative No.1] Pagliacci [Streeber] (introduction, Death) Mrs. Streeber (introduction) Brutus (villain, Introduction) Sandor (villain, Introduction) Their Partner (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Mt. Rushmore Murder
Featuring:	Zambini
Synopsis:	story involves construction of the Mount Rushmore memorial
Credits:	Script: Joe Blair ? \| Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed) \| Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Zambini (magician) Nazi Spies (villains) Alan Kent (introduction)

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