Zip Comics #42

(December 1943)

The Space That Wasn't There (Table of Contents: 1)

Steel Sterling / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Clem Weisbecker

Inks:

Clem Weisbecker

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Sergeant Clancy McGinty (Police); I: Prof. Hector (D); V: Weston (I, D)

Synopsis:

Professor Hector has invented a powerful ray gun that makes things change size.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited to "Clare", but the signature reads CLEM in #44 and is pen name for Clem Weisbecker credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. "Clare" is probably included in Who's Who only by that misread signature.

[The Secret Rubber Formula] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script:

Ed Goggin (signed)

Pencils:

Harry Sahle (signed)

Inks:

Terry Szenics (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Senor Banana; Stencho Odora; Trickster

Synopsis:

Banana and Stencho are tricked into buying a bottle of liquid that turns leaves into rubber.

[Wild Mountain Bill] (Table of Contents: 3)

Applejacks / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Ed Goggin ?

Pencils:

Harry Sahle (signed)

Inks:

Virginia Drury [as Ginger] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Slappy Applejack; Happy Applejack; I: Wild Mountain Bill

Synopsis:

To earn 50 dollars the Applejack boys have to collect it from Wild Mountain Bill, who owes it to their pappy.

Indexer Notes

Jerry Bails' Who's Who has GINGER as pen name for Virginia Drury, but uncertain if she is inker or penciller here.

Genies Don't Kill (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Maurice Howard

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Sergeant Duffy; Mrs. Livingston; Doc. Carter; Mr. Cone; Peter Rance

Synopsis:

She sat up all night beside the coffin of her dead husband and in the morning they found her dead.

[The Haunted House] (Table of Contents: 5)

Ginger / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Ed Goggin

Pencils:

Claire Moe

Inks:

Claire Moe

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Ginger Snapp; Dotty; Miss Wheedle (teacher); Freddie Flamm

Synopsis:

Ginger and Dotty have to go into the old haunted house to prove they don't believe in ghosts.

[The Needle In the Haystack] (Table of Contents: 6)

Red Rube / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Vigoda (signed)

Inks:

Bill Vigoda (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Red Rube [Rueben Rueben]; I: Dr. John Hunter (D); Mrs. Hunter; V: Dr. Blatherskee and his gang (I for all)

Synopsis:

Dr. Hunter has a fortune hidden in a needle and a gang is out to steal it.

[The Witch Sisters] (Table of Contents: 7)

Chimpy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Joe Edwards (signed)

Pencils:

Joe Edwards (signed)

Inks:

Joe Edwards (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters:

Chimpy; Genie; I: Itchy and Twitchy Witch

Synopsis:

The two Twitchy Witches fight over Genie.

Indexer Notes

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

[The Experiment] (Table of Contents: 8)

Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Ed Goggin?

Pencils:

Betty Hershey (signed)

Inks:

Betty Hershey (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Wilbur Wilkin; Principal Pimplerod; Dotty

Synopsis:

Wilbur has become an air-raid warden.