Zip Comics #36

(April 1943)

The Lost Boy Scout (Table of Contents)

Steel Sterling / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Irv Novick (signed)

Inks:

Irv Novick (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; Charley Lin (boy scout); Chiang Wei Cheng (scientist)

Synopsis:

A Chinese boy is picked up by Police Officer Clancey and he is carrying a vital link necessary for a secret invention worked on by his uncle. Japanese agents are out to get it.

Introducing Senor Banana (Table of Contents)

Senor Banana / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Sahle (signed)

Inks:

Harry Sahle (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

Senor Banana; Stencho Odora; Senorita Odora

Synopsis:

In a small village in a South American country, there lives a small man, who loves bananas.

Flight to the East (Table of Contents)

Steel Sterling / text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Grant Bosworth

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Looney; Mr. Schoenbuckel; Alec Ben Lunar (pilot)

Cooking School (Table of Contents)

Ginger / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Sahle (signed)

Inks:

Harry Sahle (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Teen

Characters:

Ginger Snapp; Dotty; Miss Gargle (teacher); Principal Grump

Synopsis:

The class has cooking lessons.

Man-Eating Lion (Table of Contents)

Chimpy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Edwards (signed)

Pencils:

Joe Edwards (signed)

Inks:

Joe Edwards (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Chimpy; Genie

Synopsis:

A man-eating lion has escaped from the zoo.

Indexer Notes

Edwards is credited on both script and art on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who

Gags (Table of Contents)

Jest Jokes / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Introducing the Applejack Family (Table of Contents)

Applejacks / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Sahle

Inks:

Harry Sahle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

Slappy Applejack; Happy Applejack; Corn-Licker (mule)

Synopsis:

Introducing the Applejacks.
The boys are trying out their applejack on Corn-Licker, the mule.

Woody the Woodpecker (Table of Contents)

Woody the Woodpecker / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Funny animals

Characters:

Woody; Sleepy

Synopsis:

Woody has a new invention, an airplane.

The School Play (Table of Contents)

Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Teen

Characters:

Wilbur Wilkin; Eddie; Mrs. Snodgrass

Synopsis:

Wilbur is directing the school play rehearsal.

High jumping Champ (Table of Contents)

World Wonders / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mary Goss [as Goss] (signed)

Pencils:

Mary Goss [as Goss] (signed)

Inks:

Mary Goss [as Goss] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Mary Goss [as Goss] (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

Fact

Indexer Notes

Mary Goss is credited on script and art on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

The Web and the Demon (Table of Contents)

Web / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sam Cooper (signed)

Inks:

Sam Cooper (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Web [John Raymond]; Dr. Simon Marchton; John Pierrepont; Dr. Eric Graham; Jane Graham

Synopsis:

Pierrepont dreams he has killed a man, and next day he can read about it in the paper.