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Issue: Zip Comics #20 Public Domain
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Variant: unnamed
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Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/10/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
Disclose 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. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Steel Sterling; Black Jack
Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Black Jack [Jack Jones] (introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); Josef Goebbels (villain)
I'm sure proud to welcome you to Zip Comics, Black Jack!
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Miscellaneous
1
The Secret Jungle Airdrome

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Blair [as Blair] (signed)
Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Steel Sterling
Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; Captain Schmidt (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains)
Steel uncovers a secret Nazi air base in the jungle of Brazil.
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Miscellaneous
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Black Jack [Jack Jones] (introduction, origin); Whitey (introduction, death); Mr. Larson (introduction); Lucky Lavitto (villain, introduction); Baxter (villain, introduction); Lavitto's gang (villains, introduction for all)
Beware the black jack! He will be your doom!
Lucky Lavitto has been going to a favorite fortune teller for years, always hearing that he is still boss of the town. However, on his most recent visit to the seer, he is told that he is to fear "the Black Jack", which will bring about his doom.
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Miscellaneous
11
Camy is spotted by his faces with angular jaws and chins and often scowling mouth.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
teen
Wilbur Wilkin; Betty Fox (introduction); J. A. McGeery (introduction)
Wilbur Wilkin! You stop that this minute!
Wilbur is giving McGeery a dunking in the watering trough for calling him "Wilbur" instead of "Bill".
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Miscellaneous
6
Greenland Adventure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Blair
Lin Streeter
Lin Streeter
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Subject Matter
Captain Valor
Captain Valor (Marine); Slim (Marine); Slam (Marine); Sergeant Hogan (Marine); Nazis (villains)
A fleet of German transports is landing a division on Greenland, unknown to Captain Valor and his Marines on their side of the island.
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Miscellaneous
7
Same art as in his signed Captain Valor in #21.
The Rodeo Murder Plot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Frank Volp
Frank Volp
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Subject Matter
western
Nevada Jones
Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Wilson (rancher); Mike Slade (villain, introduction)
Slade holds the mortgage on Wilson's ranch and is pretty anxious to take over at any cost.
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Miscellaneous
6
Faces and very realistic horses identical to Volp's credited Loop Logan story in Blue Ribbon Comics #13.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
aviation, war
War Eagles
Tim Shane; Tom Shane; Swen; Nazis (villains)
This is the place, boys! There is supposed to be a lot of fish here
A German u-boat has a secret hiding place in a castle by the Scottish coast.
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Miscellaneous
6
The Maharajah of Madowa

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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R. Louis Golden [as L. Golden] (signed)
R. Louis Golden [as L. Golden] (signed)
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Dicky in the Magic Forest
Dicky; Maharjah of Madowa (villain, introduction); Lunar (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
7
War of the Circuses

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Shorten
Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
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Subject Matter
occult
Zambini
Zambini (magician); Mr. Gallop (introduction); Swafford (villain, introduction); Socko (villain, introduction); their gang (villains, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
5

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