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| Date | | Number: 4 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Additional Information | |
| Name | Zip Comics 4 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Abner Sundell? |
| Notes | Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/) The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Characters | Steel Sterling |
| Pencils | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Radium Robbers / Steel Sterling (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cummings is suspected of stealing all the radium from his own hospital, and his daughter gets the help of detective Sterling. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Walter Cummings (scientist); Dora Cummings (daughter); Black Knight (villain) |
| Script | Charles Biro ? |
| Pencils | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Story | Mugsy (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Mugsy (dog) |
| Script | Kin Platt (signed) |
| Pencils | Kin Platt (signed) |
| Inks | Kin Platt (signed) |
| First Line | You're a nice dog... |
| Story | Scarlet Avenger (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Scarlet Avenger has come to grips with Texa, a beautiful Amazon, the queen of crime. She will use his powerfull brains in her next crime, to snatch the president. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall); Texa (Villain); President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Irv Novick (signed) |
| Inks | Irv Novick (signed) |
| First Line | The Scarlet Avenger, the nemesis of gangland, has come to grips with Texa, a beautiful Amazon, the queen of crime. |
| Comic Story | Slade Bowman's Boast / Nevada Jones (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Nevada Jones is ordered by the governor to catch the train robber, Slade Bowman. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Slade Bowman (train bandit); Bud Jones (undercover man) |
| Pencils | Frank Volpe |
| Inks | Frank Volpe |
| Notes | Art is identical to Volpe's many signed and unsigned Loop Logan stories in Blue Ribbon Comics, from #4. He can be spotted by his very realistic horses in #13, bony faces with marked cheek lines and mouth inked in two short lines. Also the small lines on each side of nose or smiling cheeks. Compare as well his signed London stories in Daredevil Comics #9 and 10 (Lev Gleason) |
| Story | Kalthar (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kalthar is taken prisoner by the tribe of Shem and taken to their king, Pharoah. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Kalthar; Bwonga; Pharoah; Bogdu (ape) |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Robert Pious |
| Inks | Robert Pious |
| First Line | One day the Urganas return from the hunt [sic] |
| Notes | The art is identical to Pious's signed story in #2. |
| Comic Story | The Munitions Works Mission / War Eagles (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Eagles blow up a German munitions works but must ditch their planes. |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Kermit (pilot); Herr Schultz (Villain) |
| Pencils | Ed Smalle |
| Inks | Ed Smalle |
| Notes | Originally credited to Ed Wexler, but the art is identical to the other signed Smalle stories in this feature. |
| Text Story | Frontier Tamers (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A two-gun devastator meets his match in a prairie raccoon. |
| Pencils | ? [as D.H.M.] (signed) (2 spot illustrations) |
| Inks | ? [as D.H.M.] (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Characters | Wanglin (gunman); Tom Smith; Raccoon (mascot) |
| Notes | Two illustrations that have nothing to do with the story. |
| Comic Story | Yat Sing's Poison Plot / Captain Valor (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Valor and Big Dip are led into a trap by a girl named Tania and fall into the hands of Yat Sing, who prepares to execute them. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Captain Valor; Ronnie; his sister Angie; Big Dip; Yat Sing (Villain); Tania (Villain) |
| Script | Abner J. Sundell |
| Pencils | Mort Meskin (signed) |
| Inks | Mort Meskin (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Diamond Cattle Smugglers / Mr. Satan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Corn cobs are used to smugglle diamonds. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Mr. Satan (Dudley Bradshaw); Doris O'Day (rancher) |
| Script | Edd Ashe |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe |
| Inks | Edd Ashe |
| Comic Story | The Daughter of the Mermen / Zambini (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The mermen beneath the sea have sent their great wizard, Magi, to America to bring back a young girl who is their last descendant on earth. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Zambini (magician); Magi (Villain; Introduction) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Elmer Wexler (signed) |
| Inks | Elmer Wexler (signed) |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
