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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
Penciller(s): Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Inker(s): Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Steel Sterling, Black Jack
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)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Blair
Penciller(s): Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Inker(s): Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Steel Sterling
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)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Camy [as Camy] (signed)
Inker(s): Al Camy [as Camy] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Black Jack
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
Writer(s): Joe Blair
Penciller(s): Lin Streeter
Inker(s): Lin Streeter
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Wilbur
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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Bresnick (signed)
Penciller(s): Warren King [as King] (signed)
Inker(s): Warren King [as King] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Captain Valor
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
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Phillips
Inker(s): Jim Phillips
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Stories of the Black Witch
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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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: cont'd from Witches Cauldron strip in BLUE RIBBON COMICS #22
Art very similar to Phillips' signed story in #27.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Blair
Penciller(s): Ed Smalle (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Smalle (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): War Eagles
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): ?
Penciller(s): Lin Streeter
Inker(s): Lin Streeter
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Dicky in the Magic Forest
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
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Jim Phillips
Inker(s): Jim Phillips
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Zambini
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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