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| Date | | Number: 31 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Zip Comics 31 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Harry Shorten |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero Irv Novick (signed) |
| Characters | Steel Sterling; Web; Black Jack Irv Novick (signed) |
| Pencils | Irv Novick (signed) Irv Novick (signed) |
| Inks | Irv Novick (signed) Irv Novick (signed) |
| First Line | The Web says: 'It's a pip!! Read Zip!!' |
| Comic Story | The Merchant of Hate / The Web (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | This is the tale of a town somewhere in Europe, Lidice, and its destruction by the Nazis. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Web [John Raymond]; Adolf Hitler (Villain); Heydrich (Villain; Intro; Death); Nazis (Villain); Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Franck and their baby (Intro; Death); Jimmy Denning (Intro) |
| Pencils | Sam Burlockoff ? |
| Inks | Sam Burlockoff ? |
| Notes | Title from inside front cover. Originally credited "Irv Novick?", not him, but has more in common with Burlockoff's signed story in #33, such as noses and scowling mouth. Uncertain. |
| Comic Story | The Creeper / Steel Sterling (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Steel in his struggle against the arch saboteur, the Creeper, who starts as a green costumed attraction at the circus. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; The Creeper (Villain; Intro) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Irv Novick (signed) |
| Inks | Irv Novick (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Clubfoot / Black Jack (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Clubfoot has come to America to kidnap the exciled King of Ptomania and take him to Germany, but Black Jack gets in his way. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Clubfoot (Intro; Villain; implied he is really Josef Goebbels); Schultz (Villain; Intro); Hauser (Villain; Intro); Jan Morski (Intro; Death); King of Ptomania (Intro) |
| Pencils | Red Holmdale (signed) |
| Inks | Red Holmdale (signed) |
| Notes | Title from inside front cover |
| Comic Story | The Football Season / Wilbur (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The football season and all the students are out for the team with that good old Westfield spirit. |
| Genre | Teen |
| Characters | Wilbur Wilkin; Principal Tootlefruit |
| Pencils | Bob Montana (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Montana (signed) |
| Notes | Joe Kubert mentioned on pg. 1 as a "student". |
| Text Story | Some Killers Work Slowly (2 pages) |
| Feature | A Web Story |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Web [John Raymond]; Steve Lescott; Martha Shannon |
| Script | Scott Feldman |
| Story | Zoom O'Day (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zoom and Liverlips are on a strafing mission on the Euphrates River and are shot down, but escape and blow up a river dam. |
| Genre | Aviation; War |
| Characters | Zoom O'Day; Liverlips; General Mueller (villain; introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); Nazis (villains) |
| Pencils | Joe Kubert (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Kubert (signed) |
| First Line | Gee, this is a swell record... but I can't for the life of me remember its name... and the label's torn off too! |
| Notes | Compare the artwork with Kubert's signed Spark Stevens story in Blue Beetle (Holyoke, 1942 series) #13. Early work. |
| Comic Story | Major Devereux, Warrior of Wake Island / Zip's Hall of Fame (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The battle of Wake Island in the Pacific, December 1941. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; War |
| Characters | Major Devereux |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Comic Story | Case No. 2 of People America Can Do Without / Zambini (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | On needlessly use of cars when sailors die to bring gasoline. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Zambini (magician); Mayor Drake and his girlfriend (Intro) |
| Script | Harry Shorten ? |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Reinman (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 | |
