XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Zip Comics #31 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1942
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #31 of 47 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An MLJ PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/25/1942
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. 4.
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (9 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Steel Sterling; Web; Black Jack
First Line: The Web says: 'It's a pip!! Read Zip!!'
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Merchant of Hate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Web [John Raymond]; Adolf Hitler (Villain); Heydrich (Villain; Intro; Death); Nazis (Villain); Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Franck and their baby (Intro; Death); Jimmy Denning (Intro)
Synopsis: This is the tale of a town somewhere in Europe, Lidice, and its destruction by the Nazis.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Title from inside front cover.
Originally credited "Irv Novick?", not him, but has more in common with Burlockoff's signed story in #33, such as noses and scowling mouth. Uncertain.
Disclose
The Creeper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; The Creeper (Villain; Intro)
Synopsis: Steel in his struggle against the arch saboteur, the Creeper, who starts as a green costumed attraction at the circus.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose
The Clubfoot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Clubfoot (Intro; Villain; implied he is really Josef Goebbels); Schultz (Villain; Intro); Hauser (Villain; Intro); Jan Morski (Intro; Death); King of Ptomania (Intro)
Synopsis: The Clubfoot has come to America to kidnap the exciled King of Ptomania and take him to Germany, but Black Jack gets in his way.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Title from inside front cover
Disclose
The Football Season

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Principal Tootlefruit
Synopsis: The football season and all the students are out for the team with that good old Westfield spirit.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Joe Kubert mentioned on pg. 1 as a "student".
Disclose
Some Killers Work Slowly

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A Web Story
Character(s): Web [John Raymond]; Steve Lescott; Martha Shannon
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): Zoom O'Day; Liverlips; General Mueller (villain; introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); Nazis (villains)
First Line: Gee, this is a swell record... but I can't for the life of me remember its name... and the label's torn off too!
Synopsis: Zoom and Liverlips are on a strafing mission on the Euphrates River and are shot down, but escape and blow up a river dam.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Compare the artwork with Kubert's signed Spark Stevens story in Blue Beetle (Holyoke, 1942 series) #13. Early work.
Disclose
Major Devereux, Warrior of Wake Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, war
Character(s): Major Devereux
Synopsis: The battle of Wake Island in the Pacific, December 1941.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose
Case No. 2 of People America Can Do Without

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Zambini (magician); Mayor Drake and his girlfriend (Intro)
Synopsis: On needlessly use of cars when sailors die to bring gasoline.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2025. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.