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Issue: Zip Comics #23 Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/01/1941
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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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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
Irv Novick (signed)
Irv Novick (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
Steel Sterling, Black Jack
Steel Sterling; Black Jack
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Miscellaneous
1
The Kidnapping of Lu-Chek

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Blair
Irv Novick
Irv Novick
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
Steel Sterling
Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; Kiang-Chek (Intro; Death); Lu-Chek (Intro); Stanley Porter (Villain; Intro); the Japanese (Villain)
The father of an old Chinese friend of Steel is kidnapped by the Japanese.
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Miscellaneous
14
Poker Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Al Camy (signed)
Al Camy (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
Black Jack
Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Poker Face (Villain; Intro); Rudolph Wane (Villain; Intro; Death); Anthony Phelps (Villain; Intro; Death)
Wane sells everything he owns to get away from the avenging Poker Face.
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Miscellaneous
11
The Hockey Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Blair
Lin Streeter
Lin Streeter
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?
Subject Matter
teen
Wilbur
Wilbur Wilkin; Gabby Garson (Intro)
Wilbur tries it out on the skating rink.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Captain Valor; Slim; Slam; Sergeant Hogan; Nazis (villains)
A Nazi inspired war rages between the sister republics of Peru and Ecuador...
Captain Valor and some of his Marines are trying to get an important message through the to the Peruvian government.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Polo War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Frank Volp
Frank Volp
?
Subject Matter
western
Nevada Jones
Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Frost and his gang (Villain; Intro); Wade and other polo players (Intro)
Nevada Jones plays polo on horseback.
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Miscellaneous
6
Bony faces with mouth drawn with two short lines, and quite realistic horses are identical to Volp's credited Loop Logan story in Blue Ribbon Comics #13.
The Big Berthas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Blair
Ed Smalle (signed)
Ed Smalle (signed)
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Subject Matter
war
War Eagles
Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Swen (crewman); Nazis (Villain)
The Eagles are on a mission to bomb and destroy a Big Bertha gun that shells London.
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Miscellaneous
6
City of Talking Animals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Lin Streeter
Lin Streeter
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?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Dicky in the Magic Forest
Dicky; Dicky's Father; Jackie; Freckles
Dicky shows his friends his new horse.
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Miscellaneous
7
Art identical to Streeter's signed story in #25.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
occult
Zambini; warden and guards of a reform school
Great heavens! I wonder what this is all about! [sic]
Zambini helps a boy from the County Reform School who has run away because of harsh treatment.
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Miscellaneous
5
The art is very similar to the signed Phillips story in #24.

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