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Issue: Zip Comics #43 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #43 of 47 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An MLJ MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/25/1943
Volume: 1
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Steel Sterling; Red Rube
First Line: Hey, Rube!
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Pages: 1
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Living Shadows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Sergeant Clancy McGinty; Professor Royce
First Line: Steel Sterling fights the battle of his life against the shadows that walked like men...
Synopsis: The professor has invented a projector that makes shadows come to life.
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Pages: 10
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Señor Banana; Stencho Odora
First Line: Pie een the sky!
Synopsis: Banana falls asleep after reading about a book about grass as superfood and dreams he has become super strong.
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Pages: 6
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
First Line: Thanks a million for that shower of letters to WJZ, the Blue Network, N.Y.C. gang, telling 'em how much you enjoy listening to Archie Andrews!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie radio show featuring Archie and Jughead standing beneath an umbrella in a rainstorm of letters, thanking listeners for sending letters to the radio stations that carry Archie.
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The Black Hood Wants You

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, teen
Feature(s): Archie; Black Hood
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead; Black Hood
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Archie/Black Hood.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Black Hood
First Line: The Black Hood wants you to tune in on the WOR Mutual Broadcasting System.
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Disclose Notes: Promo for the Black Hood radio show airing every night at 5:15 EWT on the WOR Mutual Broadcasting System.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Slappy Applejack; Happy Applejack; Wild Mountain Bill; Old Confederate General
First Line: Happy and Slappy have been given fifty dollars...
Synopsis: The Applejack boys and Wild Mountain Bill travel to New York, but only have Confederate money to spend.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The woman in the splash panel carrying a purse with the monogram "JGV" appears to be a caricature of MLJ staffer Janice "Ginger" Valleau. Another woman carrying a purse with the monogram "DM" may be another caricature.

Final panel includes text blurb for Archie radio show.
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Revenge

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tommy Tomkins
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Al; Jake; Verna
First Line: Their fingers had met through that wire netting, and then she had slipped the file through, pushed it up his sleeve.
Synopsis: Al files his way out of jail to get revenge.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Ginger Snapp; Dotty; Principal Grump; Prof. Piddle; Miss Eclaire
First Line: Principal Grump!
Synopsis: Ginger and Dotty are driving out to a poultry farm to get eggs for Miss Eclaire.
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Pages: 6
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Don't Blab

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Red Rube [Rueben Rueben]
First Line: Young Rueben Rueben has dedicated himself to fight for what's right in this world!
Synopsis: Red Rube discovers a Nazi spy radio transmitter station.
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Pages: 10
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Zipsy Doodles
First Line: After deciding you know the answers...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes quiz about driving laws, two riddles, and image search for things that start with "R."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chimpy; Genie; Super-Duper-Man; Joe Edwards
First Line: I'm not afraid... (choke) Super-Duper Man (gasp) is coming!!
Synopsis: Chimpy and Genie go over to the comic book factory to get a new idea for their artist, Joe Edwards.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Final panel includes note from Chimpy asking readers to send him a letter with their thoughts on his story, care of MLJ Magazines, 60 Hudson Street, New York, NY.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Linda; Red
First Line: Hello! That you Linda?
Synopsis: Linda is allergic to orchid scent and Wilbur has accidentally dropped an orchid into the punch bowl.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: First Wilbur story with art by Bill Vigoda, who would become the primary artist on "Wilbur" through the end of the 1940s.

First appearances of Red, the Jughead-esque best friend of Wilbur, and Linda Moore, Wilbur's wealthy girlfriend similar to Veronica. Red has yet to develop his love of food, although he expresses disinterest in dating women in the final panel. Linda appears to be wealthy from the size of her party but is not explicitly described as rich.

The plot of this story would be recycled for the text story "Orchids to You" in Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #9, which would itself be recycled as an Archie text story in Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #33.

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