Digital Comic Museum - Zip Comics 01 (1940)


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Issue: #1
Published: February 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/). On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 445574.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Superhero

Comic Story (12 pages)
Synopsis:	John Sterling completes the chemical formula which will completely protect him from the underworld's bullets, unlike his murdered father who was killed by a group of ruthless gangsters. John bathes himself in the formula, which has been poured into a cauldron of molten steel, dives in the cauldron, and emerges as a man with the resistance, magnetism and strength of steel.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Policemen The Black Knight (villain, Introduction, Death) The Black Knight's Gang (villains, Introduction For All)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Jim Kendall has devoted himself to wiping out gangland since the death of his wife and child while flying in a hijacked plane, which crashed, and in which all were killed except Jim. In the accident, his face muscles were paralyzed and Jim became the man who never smiled. Kendall has a giant scientific brain, and uses that science to the aid of his crusade.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Operative No. 12 (introduction) Chief Mike Brady Sledge Hammer (villain, Introduction) Ratty Joe Dragon Operative No. 17

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Rustlers of South Valley
Synopsis:	The Cattleman's Association has sent Nevada Jones to help Irene Cox prevent her herd being stolen by rustlers.
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Nevada Jones (introducion) Irene Cox A Gang Of Mexican Rustlers (villains, Introducion, Most Dead)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Kalthar fights a bands of Arab slavers.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Ta-Lo (a Witch Doctor, Introduction) A Band Of Arab Slavers (villains, Introduction For All) Mano Butah

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Devil's Flying Twins
Synopsis:	The Shane twins are rich Americans who join the British Air Force to continue a feud with the German sportsman, Herr Schultz.
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	The Devil's Twins [Tim Shane Tom Shane] (introduction) Anton Schultz (villain, Introduction) Captain Rex Helen Carter

Text Story (2 pages)	You Can't Win!
Synopsis:	Executions are likely to be drably gruesome affairs even to the most hardened newspapermen.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	William Edward Hickman (murderer)

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Pirates of Ho Tsin
Synopsis:	Captain Valor resigns his commission in the U.S. Marine Corps to seek adventure, and, aided by Ronnie and Angie, heads to China to battle the evil Ho Tsin.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Ronnie Angie (Ronnie's Sister) General Ho Tsin (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Eye of Oglu
Synopsis:	A young girl's father is missing after a series of weird happenings. She suspects foul play and contacts Dudley for help, who dons a purple costume with yellow cape and ventures out to help as Mr. Satan, international detective and soldier of fortune.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Mary Doran Mr. Doran Count Bodana (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Ritania-Hundania War
Synopsis:	The king of Ritania begs Zambini to help him win the war against Hundania. Hundanian spies place a huge and deadly cobra, whose bite means death, in Zambini's bedroom.
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	King Of Ritania (introduction) Mata Dara (villain, Spy) Hundanian Spies (villains, Introduction For All)

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