Zip Comics #7

(August 1940)

[Uwana's Life-Or-Death Loan Company] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Abner Sundell (signed)

Pencils:

Charles Biro (signed)

Inks:

Charles Biro (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Dora Cummings; Clancy McGinty (Police); A district attorney (villain, introduction, death); the Uwana Loan Company (villains, introduction)

Synopsis:

Witnesses are killed for testifying against protection and loan racketeers.

[The Head In the Parachute] (Table of Contents)

Scarlet Avenger / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Shorten (signed)

Pencils:

Irv Novick (signed)

Inks:

Irv Novick (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall); Inez Courtney (Operative No.1); Maxie Malarky (villain, introduction); John Doughboy (introduction, death)

Synopsis:

The severed head of a witness in a policy racket case lands in a parachute in the street, as a warning.

[Cervantes's Sacrifice Cult] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

Frank Volp

Colors:

Frank Volp

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Western

Characters:

Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Don Cervantes (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis:

Nevada and Little Joe are witnesses to a human sacrifice in an old castle in the desert town of Taranto.

Indexer 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)

[The Rescue of Prof. Goodwill] (Table of Contents)

Kalthar / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Shorten

Pencils:

Robert Pious

Inks:

Robert Pious

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Jungle

Characters:

Kalthar; Pierre LeBrun (villain); Kate Goodwill (guest-star); Prof. Goodwill (introduction)

Synopsis:

Prof. Goodwill has discovered a diamond vein in an ancient city and is taken prisoner by men who will force him to tell where the secret vein is.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited to Lin Streeter. Pious is also credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art is identical to his signed story in #2.

[The U-Boat Aircraft Carriers] (Table of Contents)

War Eagles / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ed Smalle, Jr. (signed)

Inks:

Ed Smalle, Jr. (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

War

Characters:

Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Kermit (pilot); Anton Schultz (villain)

Synopsis:

The Germans will launch airplanes from a U-boat off Plymouth.

Carnival Killer (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Crime

Characters:

Zorine; Raol; Carolyn

Synopsis:

In among the circus tents and wagons, death would strike tonight, and none would ever know why, or from whence it came.

[Fire On the Junk] (Table of Contents)

Captain Valor / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Abner Sundell (signed)

Pencils:

Mort Meskin (signed)

Inks:

Mort Meskin (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Adventure

Characters:

Captain Valor; Yat Sing (villain); Tania (villain); Ronnie (guest-star); Angie (guest-star); Big Dip (guest-star)

Synopsis:

Valor and his friends are marooned on a barren island off the Chinese coast. Yat Sing and his followers are also on the island and try to kill Valor, but Tania wants them all to join forces.

[Zotter the Blackmailer] (Table of Contents)

Mr. Satan / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Abner Sundell

Pencils:

Edd Ashe

Inks:

Edd Ashe

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Mr. Satan (Dudley Bradshaw); Doris O'Day; Gladys; Zotter (villain, introduction); his blackmailing gang (villains, introduction, death)

Synopsis:

Mr. Satan smashes up a blackmailer gang hiding on an old freighter in the harbor.

[Abdul Khil's Trap For Zambini] (Table of Contents)

Zambini the Miracle Man / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Blair (signed)

Pencils:

Ed Wexler (signed)

Inks:

Ed Wexler (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Occult

Characters:

Zambini (magician); Abdul Khil (villain, introduction, turns into a donkey)

Synopsis:

Abdul Khil, leader of the Black Magic Magicians, plots Zambini's death when he arrives in Morocco.