Zip Comics
#23
(February 1942)
Archie,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-12-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- M. L. J. Magazines, Inc.
- Editing
- Harry Shorten
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
[no title indexed]
Black Jack; Steel Sterling / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Irv Novick (signed)
- Inks
- Irv Novick (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Flying Fortress
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling; Black Jack
- Reprints
-
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #269 - Steel Sterling: Volume 1 ([April] 2017), #1068 - The Complete Black Jack ([May] 2017)
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[The Kidnapping of Lu-Chek]
Steel Sterling / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; Kiang-Chek (Intro; Death); Lu-Chek (Intro); Stanley Porter (Villain; Intro); the Japanese (Villain)
- Synopsis
- The father of an old Chinese friend of Steel is kidnapped by the Japanese.
[Poker Face]
Black Jack / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Poker Face (Villain; Intro); Rudolph Wane (Villain; Intro; Death); Anthony Phelps (Villain; Intro; Death)
- Synopsis
- Wane sells everything he owns to get away from the avenging Poker Face.
- Reprints
[The Hockey Game]
Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Wilbur Wilkin; Gabby Garson (Intro)
- Synopsis
- Wilbur tries it out on the skating rink.
[no title indexed]
Captain Valor / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Joe Blair
- Pencils
- Warren King (signed as King)
- Inks
- Warren King (signed as King)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A Nazi inspired war rages between the sister republics of Peru and Ecuador...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Valor; Slim; Slam; Sergeant Hogan; Nazis (villains)
- Synopsis
- Captain Valor and some of his Marines are trying to get an important message through the to the Peruvian government.
[The Polo War]
Nevada Jones / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Frost and his gang (Villain; Intro); Wade and other polo players (Intro)
- Synopsis
- Nevada Jones plays polo on horseback.
Indexer Notes
Bony faces with mouth drawn with two short lines, and quite realistic horses are identical to Volpe's credited Loop Logan story in Blue Ribbon Comics #13.
[The Big Berthas]
War Eagles / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- war; aviation
- Characters
- Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Swen (crewman); Nazis (Villain)
- Synopsis
- The Eagles are on a mission to bomb and destroy a Big Bertha gun that shells London.
[City of Talking Animals]
Dicky in the Magic Forest / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Dicky; Dicky's Father; Jackie; Freckles
- Synopsis
- Dicky shows his friends his new horse.
Indexer Notes
Art identical to Streeter's signed story in #25.
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
statement of ownership / 0.1 page
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Statement of Ownership.
Indexer Notes
Date of filing: October 1, 1941. No circulation data included. Printed at reduced size, rendering it illegible. Top 0.9 of page is a house ad for Hangman Comics.
[no title indexed]
Zambini / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Great heavens! I wonder what this is all about! [sic]
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Zambini; warden and guards of a reform school
- Synopsis
- Zambini helps a boy from the County Reform School who has run away because of harsh treatment.
Indexer Notes
The art is very similar to the signed Phillips story in #24.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Flying Fortress"]
Black Jack; Steel Sterling -
1.
A letter to readers of Zip Comics
-
2.
[The Kidnapping of Lu-Chek]
Steel Sterling -
3.
["Jackpot Comics No. 4 proudly announces a new addition to its family...Archie"]
-
4.
[Poker Face]
Black Jack -
5.
[The Hockey Game]
Wilbur -
6.
["A Nazi inspired war rages between the sister republics of Peru and Ecuador..."]
Captain Valor -
7.
[The Polo War]
Nevada Jones -
8.
[The Big Berthas]
War Eagles -
9.
[City of Talking Animals]
Dicky in the Magic Forest -
10.
["Hangman Comics starring The Hangman and featuring those Boy Buddies, Dusty the Spectacular Boy Detective and Roy the Superboy"]
-
11.
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
-
12.
["Great heavens! I wonder what this is all about! [sic]"]
Zambini
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Steve Coates
- Del Gruber
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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