Zip Comics
#47
(Summer 1944)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- M. L. J. Magazines, Inc.
- Brand
- An MLJ Magazine
- Editing
- Harry Shorten (?)
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard golden age US
- Paper Stock
- glossy cover, newsprint interior
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- was ongoing
Issue Notes
Last issue. Order of sequences and other corrections made by Gary Watson, April 2008.
The Strange Case of the Timid Corpse
Steel Sterling / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Clem Weisbecker [as Clem] (signed)
- Inks
- Pen Shumaker [as Pen] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Diamond Jim (villain); Dr. Trent; Roger Miek
- Synopsis
- McGinty takes a injured lady to the hospital and is standing guard to watch her big diamond, the Koh-Noor, worth 50.000 dollars. It dissappears, sewn into another patient by the crooked surgeon.
Indexer Notes
Originally credited to Weisbecker as writer and Irv Novick on art. Clem is most probably pen name for Clem Weisbecker.
"Pen" is a pen name for Pen Shomaker according to Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Both are credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Which one is the penciler and which one the inker is uncertain. The long faces with big eyes point to Weisbecker as penciller.
"Gee, I'll never forget that first date..."
Ginger / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Ed Goggin (signed)
- Pencils
- Virginia Drury [as Ginger] (signed)
- Inks
- Virginia Drury [as Ginger] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Ginger Snapp; Tommy
- Synopsis
- Ginger is reading in her diary about her first date with Tommy.
Indexer Notes
Originally credited to Janice Valleau, but Jerry Bails' Who's Who has GINGER as pen name for Virginia and says she is confused with Janice Valleau. Janice's pen name was JANICE J.
Red Rube and El Tornado
Red Rube / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Vigoda (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Red Rube [Reuben Reuben]; El Tornado (bull)
- Synopsis
- The ambassador in Mexico and his whole staff comes down with the measles, and Red Rube is sent down to smooth things over.
The Case of the Talking Dog
Steel Sterling / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Irv Novick ?
- Inks
- Pen Shumaker [as Pen] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Ventro the Ventriloquist; Charlie (doll)
- Synopsis
- A ventriloquist has killed a man for cheating him for years.
Indexer Notes
next app. in MIGHTY CRUSADERS #4 (1966)
Originally credited "Irv Novick ? [as Pe-a]". Signature could be Pen at bottom left in splash panel, and then it is Pen Shumaker who is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Some faces with "angry" eyebrows look much like Novick.
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0.
[no title indexed]
Steel Sterling; Red Rube -
1.
The Strange Case of the Timid Corpse
Steel Sterling -
2.
"Gee, I'll never forget that first date..."
Ginger -
3.
Red Rube and El Tornado
Red Rube -
4.
The Case of the Talking Dog
Steel Sterling -
5.
Red Rube and the Martians
Red Rube
- Jim Van Dore
- Steinar Ådland
- Gary L. Watson
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed
- Lou Mougin
- Gary L. Watson
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