| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling |
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| Synopsis | House ad for Shield-Wizard Comics 3. 5 thumb-nail sketches and brief descriptions of the stories. |
| 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. |
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| Comic Story | The Return of the Puppet Master (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Puppet Master has escaped from prison and sets his plan of living puppets into operation. |
| Content | Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Dora Cummings; The Puppet Master [Gargulio] (villain) |
| Notes | Steinar Ådland and Keith Chandler agree that this is Irv Novick. Original indexer credited Charles Biro. |
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| Comic Story | The Sack of the Giant (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A giant has entered Panora and collects human beings to eat. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Dicky Farenwell; Farenwell (Dicky's father); A giant (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Bar-X Ranch War (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A crooked rancher is fencing off water in public domain. |
| Content | 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) |
| 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. |
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| Comic Story | The Devil-Devil Doctor (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Old Rixon is murdered in his bed by a hooded figure before he could change his last will. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Red Reagan (Police Detective); Bertie Randolph (assistent); 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 |
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| Comic Story | Swen Olson's Maiden Flight (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Swen Olsen is ready for action as a gunner in R.A.F. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Swen Olsen (gunner); The Nazis (villains); Gen. Vosh (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Swen is called a big crazy Swede at the end panel, but he was a Norwegian agent in the previous episode. |
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| 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. |
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| Comic Story | Valor on the Slave Block (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. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Captain Valor; Angie; Ronnie; Dallas; Big Dip; Ab-Ah-Ner (villain); company (guest-star); Marty Martin |
| Notes | There is no writer credit. |
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| Comic Story | The Framing of a Photographer (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A news photographer is framed for killing a friend. |
| Content | 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) |
| Notes | There is no writer credit. |
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| Comic Story | Scrambling the Gambling Joint (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zambini visits a crooked gambling house. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Happy (villain, introduction); his gang (villain, introduction); Stacey (introduction) |
| Notes | Originally credited to Streeter, but the wedge shaped heads with narrow, pointed ears are like Reinman's signed Scarlet Avenger story in #17. |
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| 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. |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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