Zip Comics
#33
(January 1943)
Archie,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- M. L. J. Magazines, Inc.
- Brand
-
An MLJ Publication
Curse of the Orient
Steel Sterling / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; P.G. Kane (collector)
- Synopsis
- A pair of eyeglasses called the Curse of the Orient, thet can reveal the true inner thoughts of the person looked at.
Drums of Madness
Web / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Web (John Raymond); Mark Randolph (diplomat); Hiller (Nazi)
- Synopsis
- A diplomat hears drums inside his head, and it drives him almost insane. Web finds out he has a miniature receiver operated into his teeth.
The Professor Dies
A Web Story / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Web [John Raymond]; Robert Woodley (professor); Gerald Lane (professor); Jenkins (officer); Keller (officer)
- Synopsis
- Why did the killer wear a long green beard?
The Full House
Black Jack / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Jack [Jack Jones]; John Gruber (casino owner)
- Synopsis
- With the ever increasing U-boat menace at work day and night along the shores, America's life lines of supply are threatened with extiction. Black Jack finds one of the spies and informers in a casino.
- Reprints
in Commando Training
Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Wilbur Wilkin; Robert Wilkin (dad); Mrs. Wilkin (mom)
- Synopsis
- Wilbur is practicing to become a commando.
The Nazi Cobra Reinhardt Heydrich
Zip's Hall of Shame / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Reinhard Heydrich (Gestapo)
- Synopsis
- Life history of one of the world's most vicious monsters.
Michael O'Conner
Zip's Hall of Fame / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Characters
- Michael O'Connor (truck driver)
- Synopsis
- The story of an Irish cab driver from Brooklyn who drove supply trucks in Burma.
Indexer Notes
Signature at bottom of panel 4. The only Johnson credited as working for Archie, was a house ads artist named A. H. Johnson.
[no title indexed]
World Wonders / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Mary Goss (signed as Goss)
- Pencils
- Mary Goss (signed as Goss)
- Inks
- Mary Goss (signed as Goss)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Mary Goss (signed as Goss)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tree rings...
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Credits suggested by the Who's Who.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Harry Shorten
Web, Steel Sterling -
1.
Curse of the Orient
Steel Sterling -
2.
Drums of Madness
Web -
3.
The Professor Dies
A Web Story -
4.
The Full House
Black Jack -
5.
Commando Training
Wilbur -
6.
The Nazi Cobra Reinhardt Heydrich
Zip's Hall of Shame -
7.
Michael O'Conner
Zip's Hall of Fame -
8.
["Tree rings..."]
World Wonders -
9.
Gags
Just Jokes -
10.
Rumor Mongers
Zambini
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