Zip Comics #20

(November 1941)

[The Secret Jungle Airdrome] (Table of Contents)

Steel Sterling / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Blair (signed)

Pencils:

Irv Novick (signed)

Inks:

Irv Novick (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; Captain Schmidt (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains)

Synopsis:

Steel uncovers a secret Nazi air base in the jungle of Brazil.

[The Origin of Black Jack] (Table of Contents)

Black Jack / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Camy

Inks:

Al Camy

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Jack [Jack Jones] (introduction, origin); Whitey (introduction, death); Larson (introduction, a fortune teller); Lucky Lavitto (villain); Baxter (introduction); their gang (villains, introduction)

Indexer Notes

Camy is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and he is spotted by his faces with angular jaws and chin, and often scowling mouth.

[How To Build a Motorboat--Maybe] (Table of Contents)

Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Blair (signed)

Pencils:

Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)

Inks:

Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Wilbur Wilkin; Betty Fox (introduction); J. A. McGeery (introduction)

Synopsis:

Wilbur is giving McGeery a dunking in the watering trough for calling him "Wilbur" instead of "Bill".

[Greenland Adventure] (Table of Contents)

Captain Valor / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Blair

Pencils:

Lin Streeter

Inks:

Lin Streeter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Captain Valor (Marine); Slim (Marine); Slam (Marine); Sergeant Hogan (Marine); Nazis (villains)

Synopsis:

A fleet of German transports is landing a division on Greenland, unknown to Captain Valor and his Marines on their side of the island.

Indexer Notes

Same art as in his signed Captain Valor in #21.

[The Rodeo Murder Plot] (Table of Contents)

Nevada Jones / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Volp

Inks:

Frank Volp

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Wilson (rancher); Mike Slade (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Slade holds the mortgage on Wilson's ranch and is pretty anxious to take over at any cost.

Indexer Notes

Faces and very realistic horses identical to Volp's credited Loop Logan story in Blue Ribbon Comics #13.

[Submarine In Scotland] (Table of Contents)

War Eagles / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Blair

Pencils:

Ed Smalle (signed)

Inks:

Ed Smalle (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation; war

Characters:

Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Swen (crewman); Nazis (villains)

Synopsis:

A German U-boat has a secret hiding place in a castle by the Scottish coast.

[The Maharajah of Madowa] (Table of Contents)

Dicky in the Magic Forest / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Larry Golden (signed)

Inks:

Larry Golden (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Characters:

Dicky; Maharjah of Madowa (villain, introduction); Lunar (villain, introduction)

[War of the Circuses] (Table of Contents)

Zambini / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Shorten

Pencils:

Bob Montana

Inks:

Bob Montana

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Zambini (magician); Mr. Gallop (introduction); Swafford (villain, introduction); Socko (villain, introduction); their gang (villains, introduction)