Volume: #1, Issue: #2 [2]
Published: February 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: On-sale date from 1943 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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| Comic Story (15 pages) |
A Leader Against Crime! |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Detectives Have Brains |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (9 pages) |
A Racket in Dolls |
| Synopsis: |
Detective Blair passes by a junkyard, hears a cry for help and encounters a suspicious man. Blair has a cabbie trail this man in a truck, which mysteriously disappears near a doll factory. Blair enters the factory, encounters more suspicious men, is knocked out and winds up in jail. Released on his own recognizance, he becomes Zippo and returns to the factory to further investigate and discovers that the ragdolls are filled with steel bars instead of straw, which other nations then melt down and use for their own purposes......good or bad. Zippo shuts down the illegal sale of defense steel. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Zippo [Joe Blair] Lynx (villain) Slug (villain) Bill (villain) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
A Well-Laid Plot |
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