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| Date | | Number: 16 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Zip Comics 16 | 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) |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for Shield-Wizard Comics 3. 5 thumb-nail sketches and brief descriptions of the stories. |
| First Line | Here's what you get in No. 3 |
| Notes | Inside front cover, black-and-white. In the ad, the stories have individual titles, but in the actual comic the story titles do not appear. |
| Comic Story | The Return of the Puppet Master / Steel Sterling (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Puppet Master has escaped from prison and sets his plan of living puppets into operation. |
| Characters | Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Dora Cummings; The Puppet Master [Gargulio] (villain) |
| Script | Joe Blair (signed) |
| Pencils | Irv Novick |
| Inks | Irv Novick |
| Notes | Steinar Ådland and Keith Chandler agree that this is Irv Novick. Original indexer credited Charles Biro. |
| Comic Story | The Sack of the Giant / Dicky in the Magic Forest (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A giant has entered Panora and collects human beings to eat. |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Dicky Farenwell; Farenwell (Dicky's father); A giant (villain, introduction) |
| Script | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Pencils | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Inks | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Bar-X Ranch War / Nevada Jones (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A crooked rancher is fencing off water in public domain. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Hank Mills (villain, introduction, death); Tony (villain, introduction, death); Charlie (villain, introduction, death); several others (villains, introduction) |
| 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 Devil-Devil Doctor / Red Reagan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Old Rixon is murdered in his bed by a hooded figure before he could change his last will. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Red Reagan (police detective); Bertie Randolph (assistant); The Devil-Devil Doctor [Bob Rixon] (villain, introduction); Thaddeus Rixon (introduction, death); Dr. Schwartz (introduction); Al Faltz (introduction); Bob Rixon (introduction); Hugo Rixon (introduction) Bernard Rixon (introduction); Pamela Rixon |
| Script | Joe Blair (signed) |
| Pencils | Sam Cooper (signed) |
| Inks | Sam Cooper (signed) |
| Comic Story | Swen Olson's Maiden Flight / War Eagles (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Swen Olsen is ready for action as a gunner in R.A.F. |
| Genre | Aviation; War |
| Characters | Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Swen Olsen (gunner); The Nazis (villains); Gen. Vosh (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Ed Smalle (signed) |
| Inks | Ed Smalle (signed) |
| Notes | Swen is called a big crazy Swede at the end panel, but he was a Norwegian agent in the previous episode. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for Pep Comics and the appearance of The Hangman. The bottom third of the page announces that the next issue of Zip Comics will have a "suitable for framing" picture of the Steel Sterling cast on the back cover. |
| First Line | A new exciting, mystery-packed feature |
| Comic Story | Valor on the Slave Block / Captain Valor (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Valor and his friends have taken command of the village of the Chinese lord, but he gets in contact with Mongol horsemen who attack the village to help him. |
| Genre | Adventure; War |
| Characters | Captain Valor; Angie; Ronnie; Dallas; Big Dip; Ab-Ah-Ner (villain); company (guest-star); Marty Martin |
| Script | Joe Blair ? |
| Pencils | Mort Meskin (signed) |
| Inks | Mort Meskin (signed) |
| Notes | There is no writer credit. |
| Comic Story | The Framing of a Photographer / Scarlet Avenger (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A news photographer is framed for killing a friend. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Scarlet Avenger [Jim Kendall]; Inez Courtney [Operative No.1]; Joe Adams (introduction); Joe Devlin (introduction, death); Hal Ates (villain, introduction); Mayor Sikes (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Harry Shorten ? |
| Pencils | Carl Hubbell (signed) |
| Inks | Carl Hubbell (signed) |
| Notes | There is no writer credit. |
| Comic Story | Scrambling the Gambling Joint / Zambini (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zambini visits a crooked gambling house. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Happy (villain, introduction); his gang (villain, introduction); Stacey (introduction) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Originally credited to Streeter, but the wedge shaped heads with narrow, pointed ears are like Reinman's signed Scarlet Avenger story in #17. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for the first issue of Jackpot Comics. Thumbnail illustrations and descriptions of stories featuring Steel Sterling, Mr. Justice, Sgt. Boyle, and the Black Hood. Cover of Jackpot Comics 1 is also reproduced. |
| First Line | Wow! Did I hit the jackpot! |
| Notes | Back cover. |
| 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 | |
