Zip Comics
#43
(January 1944)
Archie,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except June and September
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- M. L. J. Magazines, Inc.
- Brand
-
An MLJ Magazine
- Editing
- Harry Shorten (?)
Issue Notes
Order of sequences and other corrections made by Gary Watson, April 2008.
Living Shadows
Steel Sterling / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Sergeant Clancy McGinty; Professor Royce
- Synopsis
- The professor has invented a projector that makes shadows come to life.
[no title indexed]
Señor Banana / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Ed Goggin (credited as Goggin)
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle (signed as Sahle)
- Inks
- Virginia Drury
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pie een the sky!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Senor Banana; Stencho Odora
- Synopsis
- Banana falls asleep after reading about a book about grass as superfood and dreams he has become super strong.
[no title indexed]
Slap Happy Applejacks / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Happy and Slappy have been given fifty dollars...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Slappy Applejack; Happy Applejack; Wild Mountain Bill; Old Confederate General
- Synopsis
- The Applejack boys and Wild Mountain Bill travel to New York, but only have Confederate money to spend.
Revenge
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Al; Jake; Verna
- Synopsis
- Al files his way out of jail to get revenge.
[no title indexed]
Ginger / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Principal Grump!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Ginger Snapp; Dotty; Principal Grump; Prof. Piddle; Miss Eclaire
- Synopsis
- Ginger and Dotty are driving out to a poultry farm to get eggs for Miss Eclaire.
Don't Blab
Red Rube / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Red Rube [Rueben Rueben]
- Synopsis
- Red Rube discovers a Nazi spy radio transmitter station.
[no title indexed]
Zipsy Doodles / activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- After deciding you know the answers...
[no title indexed]
Chimpy / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Joe Edwards (signed)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Edwards (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm not afraid... (choke) Super-Duper Man (gasp) is coming!!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Chimpy; Genie; Super-Duper-Man
- Synopsis
- Chimpy and Genie go over to the comic book factory to get a new idea for their artist, Joe Edwards.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Steel Sterling; Red Rube -
1.
Living Shadows
Steel Sterling -
2.
["Pie een the sky!"]
Señor Banana -
3.
The Black Hood Wants You
Archie; Black Hood -
4.
["Happy and Slappy have been given fifty dollars..."]
Slap Happy Applejacks -
5.
Revenge
-
6.
["Principal Grump!"]
Ginger -
7.
Don't Blab
Red Rube -
8.
["After deciding you know the answers..."]
Zipsy Doodles -
9.
["I'm not afraid... (choke) Super-Duper Man (gasp) is coming!!"]
Chimpy -
10.
["Hello! That you Linda?"]
Wilbur
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