Zip Comics
#34
(February 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
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
The Disappearing Diamonds
Steel Sterling / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Irv Novick (signed)
- Inks
- Irv Novick (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney
- Synopsis
- Diamonds used in the cutting of precision instruments have been stolen from one of the airplane factories, and Looney is set on the job to deliver the next transfer.
The Vikings
The Web / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Web [John Raymond]; Prof. George Wells; Kapitan Klapp (U-boat captain)
- Synopsis
- Germans disguised as vikngs plans to blow up an American base in Alaska.
Murder!
Web / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Web [John Raymond]; Michael Kenning; Lawrence Kenning; Mathilda Kenning; Tom Shelley
[no title indexed]
Black Jack / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sam Cooper (signed)
- Inks
- Sam Cooper (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is Clem Carter, your world newscaster speaking...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Clem Carter (reporter); Donald King (radio tycoon and spy); Stan Patt (secretary)
- Synopsis
- The KBC radio station used their power facilities to send secret messages to Japanese submarines lying off the coast.
- Reprints
in The Costume Ball
Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Wilbur Wilkin; Robert Wilkin (dad); Mrs. Wilkin (mom); Eddie; Mary Wilkin (sister)
- Synopsis
- Wilbur and friends are going to a masquerade, and sis' silk stockings are missing.
Black Binder
Stories of the Black Witch / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Black Witch; Black Birder; Tito
- Synopsis
- A slave trader captain is saved by his slave after a shipwreck and taken to his village and beheaded.
Indexer Notes
The art matches his signed Zoom O'Day story in #31.
This is the final appearance of the "Stories of the Black Witch" feature.
[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
- Kept on ice
- Genre
- non-fiction
The Old Soldier
Zip's Hall of Fame / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war; military
- Characters
- Drina Cachalka
- Synopsis
- In Serbia, an old woman of 72 years has shown the world that one is never too old to fight.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Steel Sterling says: 'Take a tip, read Zip!!'"]
Steel Sterling; The Web -
1.
The Disappearing Diamonds
Steel Sterling -
2.
The Vikings
The Web -
3.
Murder!
Web -
4.
["This is Clem Carter, your world newscaster speaking..."]
Black Jack -
5.
The Costume Ball
Wilbur -
6.
Black Binder
Stories of the Black Witch -
7.
["Kept on ice"]
World Wonders -
8.
The Old Soldier
Zip's Hall of Fame -
9.
Trojan Rock
World Wonders -
10.
Enemies Within
Zambini
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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