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Issue: Zip Comics #26 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1942
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Issues: #26 of 47 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/25/1942
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. 2.
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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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Remember Pearl Harbor!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Steel Sterling; Black Jack
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Remember Pearl Harbor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; Premier Itoki
Synopsis: Steel is sent out by the U.S. Consul to evacuate American civilians from Japan and occupied territories just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Black Jack Vs. Deuces Wilde

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Deuces Wilde (gambler); Kent (crooked politician)
Synopsis: When the Mayor dies, the new one is the crooked Kent, who is cooperating with the big shot gambler, Deuces Wilde.
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Pages: 13
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Robert Wilkin (dad); Mary Wilkin (mom)
First Line: If you should pass by the window...
Synopsis: Mr. Wilkin is desperately trying to reduce by training.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Captain Valor (Marine); Goop (Marine); Japanese (villains)
First Line: One peaceful night...
Synopsis: The attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Captain Valor" feature.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Black Witch; Jed
First Line: In the eerie glow of the fire's embers...
Synopsis: A cat and a dead woman are hidden inside a wall.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The new "Stories of the Black Witch" feature beginning in this issue is a reboot of the earlier "Tales from the Witch's Cauldron" feature which was last seen in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1939 Series) #22 (March 1942).

Art very similar to Phillips' signed story in #27.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Swen (crewman); Helen; Nazis (Villain)
First Line: By golly, we've overshot Cairo...
Synopsis: The Eagles and Helen are pursued very closely by the Germans in the Western Desert, and hide under the Sphinx.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: The only way the Medusa...
Synopsis: Dicky has gone to the peak of a very treacherous mountain, where he can obtain a Medusa egg to kill the Medusa monster.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Dicky in the Magic Forest" feature.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Zambini (magician); Whit Warren
First Line: Zambini matches wits with a man for whom words are weapons...
Synopsis: Gossip is a double-edged weapon, and Zambini has come to warn Mr. Warren before it's too late.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Most probably the art of Phillips, when comparing noses on some close up faces with his signed story in #27.

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