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Issue: Zip Comics #31 Public Domain
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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.
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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 [as Novick] (signed)
Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Steel Sterling, Web, Black Jack
Steel Sterling; Web; Black Jack
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The Merchant of Hate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Sam Burlockoff ?
Sam Burlockoff ?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Web
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)
This is the tale of a town somewhere in Europe, Lidice, and its destruction by the Nazis.
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13
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.
The Creeper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Blair
Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Steel Sterling
Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; The Creeper (Villain; Intro)
Steel in his struggle against the arch saboteur, the Creeper, who starts as a green costumed attraction at the circus.
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Miscellaneous
12
The Clubfoot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Red Holmdale (signed)
Red Holmdale (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Black Jack
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)
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.
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Miscellaneous
11
Title from inside front cover
The Football Season

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
teen
Wilbur
Wilbur Wilkin; Principal Tootlefruit
The football season and all the students are out for the team with that good old Westfield spirit.
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Miscellaneous
6
Joe Kubert mentioned on pg. 1 as a "student".
Some Killers Work Slowly

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Scott Feldman
typeset
Subject Matter
A Web Story
Web [John Raymond]; Steve Lescott; Martha Shannon
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
aviation, war
Zoom O'Day; Liverlips; General Mueller (villain; introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); Nazis (villains)
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!
Zoom and Liverlips are on a strafing mission on the Euphrates River and are shot down, but escape and blow up a river dam.
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Miscellaneous
6
Compare the artwork with Kubert's signed Spark Stevens story in Blue Beetle (Holyoke, 1942 series) #13. Early work.
Major Devereux, Warrior of Wake Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Paul Reinman (signed)
Paul Reinman (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
informational, war
Zip's Hall of Fame
Major Devereux
The battle of Wake Island in the Pacific, December 1941.
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Miscellaneous
6
Case No. 2 of People America Can Do Without

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Shorten?
Paul Reinman (signed)
Paul Reinman (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
occult
Zambini
Zambini (magician); Mayor Drake and his girlfriend (Intro)
On needlessly use of cars when sailors die to bring gasoline.
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Miscellaneous
6

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