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| Date | | Number: 15 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Additional Information | |
| Name | Zip Comics 15 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | 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 |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Steel Sterling |
| Pencils | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Puppet Master's Murders / Steel Sterling (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | A crazy puppet master murders two men to use in his greatest puppet act ever seen by human eyes. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Dora Cummings; Looney; V: The Puppet Master (I; Gargulio) |
| Script | Joe Blair ? |
| Pencils | Charles Biro |
| Inks | Charles Biro |
| Notes | There is no writer credit. |
| Comic Story | The Great Magic Contest / Dicky in the Magic Forest (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dick enters the great magic contest to win the golden crown. |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Dicky Farenwell; Farenwell (Dicky's father); GS: Mr. Sage; V: Mr. Magico (I) |
| Script | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Pencils | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Inks | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Oil Derrick Murder / Nevada Jones (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The banker holds Miss Amy's mortgage, so if any oil production was stopped he could take over, and he is deliberately trying to scare her off her ranch. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); I: Amy, Mr. Goldsmith; V: Sheriff Slagg (I, D) |
| Pencils | Frank Volpe |
| Inks | Frank Volpe |
| Notes | Faces and very realistic horses identical to Volpe's credited Loop Logan story in Blue Ribbon Comics #13, but the inking here seems a bit hastier than in the previous stories. |
| Comic Story | The Case of the Kill-Crazy Gorilla / Red Reagan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A killer gorilla is on the loose, so everybody is to believe, but it is really a man in disguise. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Red Reagan (police detective); Bertie Randolph (assistant); V: Claude Dutton (introduction); Earl Nelson (introduction, death); Paul Anderson (introduction, death); Count D'Andria (introduction); Ruth D'Andria (introduction) |
| Script | Joe Blair ? |
| Pencils | Sam Cooper (signed) |
| Inks | Sam Cooper (signed) |
| Notes | title on pg. 5 There is no writer credit. |
| Comic Story | The Hidden Explosive Formula / War Eagles (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The twins are sent on a mission to Norway to retrieve a hidden formula for a new condensed explosion. In Norway they meet agent Swen Olsen. |
| Genre | Aviation; War |
| Characters | Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); I: Swen Olsen; V: Nazis |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Ed Smalle |
| Inks | Ed Smalle |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for Jackpot Comics. Drawings and synopses of 4 stories: Steel Sterling, the Black Hood, Mr. Justice and Sgt. Boyle. |
| First Line | Wow! Did I hit the jackpot! |
| Notes | Cover of Jackpot Comics 1 is reproduced. The Steel Sterling story is listed as "The Green Eggs of Death" but in the actual comic the splash page says "The Green Eggs of Doom." The Black Hood and Mr. Justice stories are given titles in the ad but the stories in Jackpot Comics have no titles. |
| Comic Story | Mystery of the Secluded City / Captain Valor (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Far in the interior of China, Captain Valor and his followers are taken to a sqrewy Chinese lord that can't stand any noise. |
| Genre | Adventure; War |
| Characters | Captain Valor; GS: Angie; Ronnie; Dallas; Big Dip; V: Ab-Ah-Ner (I; named after Abner Sundell) |
| Script | Joe Blair (signed) |
| Pencils | Mort Meskin (signed) |
| Inks | Mort Meskin (signed) |
| Comic Story | The House of the Gilded Lily / Scarlet Avenger (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A cop is killed in China Town by a dope fiend, and the Scarlet Avenger will get the real killer. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Scarlet Avenger [Jim Kendall]; Inez Courtney [Operative No.1]; GS: Ah Ling; V: Kim Lee (I) |
| Script | Harry Shorten ? |
| Pencils | Carl Hubbell |
| Inks | Carl Hubbell |
| Notes | There is no writer or artist credit. |
| Comic Story | Mayhem in the Marine Auditorium / Zambini (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zambini is visiting a famous Marine Auditorium where denizens of the sea are on display. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Zambini (magician); I: Teddy Watson; V: Smith (I) |
| Script | Joe Blair ? |
| Pencils | Lin Streeter |
| Inks | Lin Streeter |
| Notes | There is no writer or artist credit. |
| 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 | |
