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| Date | | Number: 17 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Zip Comics 17 | 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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Steel Sterling |
| Pencils | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for Jackpot Comics 1. Thumbnails and descriptions of Steel Sterling, Mr. Justice, the Black Hood and Sgt. Boyle stories. Cover of Jackpot Comics 1 is reproduced as well. |
| First Line | Wow! Did I hit the jackpot! |
| Notes | Inside front cover, black and white. |
| Comic Story | Flood! / Steel Sterling (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | Weeks of rainfall swell Mid-Western streams to the bursting point. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Dora Cummings; Kemp (villain, introduction); Zeke Ross (introduction, death) |
| Script | Joe Blair (signed) |
| Pencils | Irv Novick |
| Inks | Irv Novick |
| Comic Story | Captain Valor Joins the Marines / Captain Valor (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Valor rejoins the Marines. |
| Characters | Captain Valor; Mike Ahearn (Marine); Karl; Hugo |
| Script | Joe Blair ? |
| Pencils | Lin Streeter (signed) |
| Inks | Lin Streeter (signed) |
| Notes | Captain Valor joins the Marines (and loses his old supporting cast) |
| Comic Story | Cow-Critters Ain't Got Wings / Nevada Jones (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rustlers get the stolen cattle through a waterfall and lowered down from a cave on the other side. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); J. S. Michaels (introduction); Miss Michaels (introduction); Cattle rustlers (villain, introduction) |
| Pencils | Frank Volpe |
| Inks | Frank Volpe |
| Notes | title from last issue blurb Faces and very realistic horses identical to Volp'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 Corpse That Breathed Death / Red Reagan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A cancerous corpse strikes with its icy breath, freezing the blood of doctors at the hospital. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Red Reagan (police detective); Bertie Randolph (assistant); The Corpse [Dr. Bentley] (villain, introduction, death) |
| Script | Joe Blair ? |
| Pencils | Sam Cooper |
| Inks | Sam Cooper |
| Notes | There is no writer or artist credit. |
| Comic Story | Sonia the Spy / War Eagles (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The twins escape from Denmark in a German E-boat, but land in England in a dingy. |
| Genre | Aviation; War |
| Characters | Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Swen Olsen (gunner); Sonia Von Lickt (villain, introduction); Eric Von Lickt (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Ed Smalle (signed) |
| Inks | Ed Smalle (signed) |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for Shield-Wizard Comics 4. Thumbnails and descriptions of stories starring Dusty, the Shield and Dusty (2 stories), and the Wizard and Roy (2 stories). Cover of issue 4 is also reproduced. |
| First Line | Here's what you get in No. 4 |
| Notes | Although each of the stories is given a title in the ad, in the actual comic there are no story titles listed. |
| Comic Story | Captured by a Witch / Dicky in the Magic Forest (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dicky and Jackie are making a tour upon the witch's flying broom, when the witch catches them and prepares to cook them to eat. |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Dicky Farenwell; Jackie; A witch (villain, death); Jackie (villain, introduction) |
| Script | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Pencils | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Inks | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Comic Story | Death of a Clown / Scarlet Avenger (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The circus had something to do with the robberies that are sweeping the country. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Scarlet Avenger [Jim Kendall]; Inez Courtney [Operative No.1]; Pagliacci [Streeber] (introduction, death); Mrs. Streeber (introduction); Brutus (villain, introduction); Sandor (villain, introduction); their partner (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Harry Shorten (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Notes | This is the final appearance of the "Scarlet Avenger" feature. |
| Publisher advertisement | Meet Captain Flag! |
| Synopsis | House ad for the first appearance of Captain Flag in the September issue of Blue Ribbon Comics. |
| Notes | The bottom half of the page contains advertisements. |
| Comic Story | The Mt. Rushmore Murder / Zambini (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | story involves construction of the Mount Rushmore memorial |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Zambini (magician); Nazi spies (villains); Alan Kent (introduction) |
| Script | Joe Blair ? |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Notes | Signature noted by Gary Watson, April 2008. There is no writer credit. |
| Story | Steel Sterling (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Portrait of Steel Sterling, Dora Cummings, Sgt. Clancy, and Alec Ben Lunar. |
| First Line | This picture is for framing |
| Notes | Back cover, in color. |
| 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 | |
