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Issue: Zip Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
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Issues: #4 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: 03/10/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Abner Sundell ?
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Inker(s): Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Steel Sterling
Character(s): Steel Sterling
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Radium Robbers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles Biro ?
Penciller(s): Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Inker(s): Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Steel Sterling
Character(s): Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Walter Cummings (scientist); Dora Cummings (daughter); Black Knight (villain)
Synopsis: Cummings is suspected of stealing all the radium from his own hospital, and his daughter gets the help of detective Sterling.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed)
Penciller(s): Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed)
Inker(s): Kin Platt [as Quincy] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mugsy
Character(s): Mugsy (dog)
First Line: You're a nice dog...
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In Content Item: FlagFree Weekly Comic Magazine #3 published May 1940
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten (credited)
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): Scarlet Avenger
Character(s): The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall); Texa (Villain); President Franklin D. Roosevelt
First Line: The Scarlet Avenger, the nemesis of gangland, has come to grips with Texa, a beautiful Amazon, the queen of crime.
Synopsis: The Scarlet Avenger has come to grips with Texa, a beautiful Amazon, the queen of crime. She will use his powerfull brains in her next crime, to snatch the president.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Slade Bowman's Boast

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Volp
Inker(s): Frank Volp
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Nevada Jones, Quick-Trigger Man
Character(s): Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Slade Bowman (train bandit); Bud Jones (undercover man)
Synopsis: Nevada Jones is ordered by the governor to catch the train robber, Slade Bowman.
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In Content Item: FlagFree Weekly Comic Magazine #3 published May 1940
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art is identical to Volp's many signed and unsigned Loop Logan stories in Blue Ribbon Comics, from #4. He can be spotted by his very realistic horses in #13, bony faces with marked cheek lines and mouth inked in two short lines. Also the small lines on each side of nose or smiling cheeks. Compare as well his signed London stories in Daredevil Comics #9 and 10 (Lev Gleason)
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kalthar; Bwonga; Pharoah; Bogdu (ape)
First Line: One day the Urganas return from the hunt [sic]
Synopsis: Kalthar is taken prisoner by the tribe of Shem and taken to their king, Pharoah.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The art is identical to Pious's signed story in #2.
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The Munitions Works Mission

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Smalle
Inker(s): Ed Smalle
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): War Eagles
Character(s): Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Kermit (pilot); Herr Schultz (Villain)
Synopsis: The Eagles blow up a German munitions works but must ditch their planes.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Ed Wexler, but the art is identical to the other signed Smalle stories in this feature.
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Frontier Tamers

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as D.H.M.] (signed) (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? [as D.H.M.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, western
Character(s): Wanglin (gunman); Tom Smith; Raccoon (mascot)
Synopsis: A two-gun devastator meets his match in a prairie raccoon.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Two illustrations that have nothing to do with the story.
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Yat Sing's Poison Plot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Abner Sundell [as Sundall] (credited)
Penciller(s): Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed)
Inker(s): Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Valor
Character(s): Captain Valor; Ronnie; his sister Angie; Big Dip; Yat Sing (Villain); Tania (Villain)
Synopsis: Captain Valor and Big Dip are led into a trap by a girl named Tania and fall into the hands of Yat Sing, who prepares to execute them.
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In Content Item: FlagFree Weekly Comic Magazine #3 published May 1940
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Diamond Cattle Smugglers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edd Ashe
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe
Inker(s): Edd Ashe
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. Satan
Character(s): Mr. Satan (Dudley Bradshaw); Doris O'Day (rancher)
Synopsis: Corn cobs are used to smugglle diamonds.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Daughter of the Mermen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Blair
Penciller(s): Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Inker(s): Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): Zambini the 'Miracle Man'
Character(s): Zambini (magician); Magi (Villain; Introduction)
Synopsis: The mermen beneath the sea have sent their great wizard, Magi, to America to bring back a young girl who is their last descendant on earth.
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Pages: 8

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