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Publication | June 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mr. Justice [Prince James]; Richy (inset); Rang-a-Tang (inset) |
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Comic Story | The Devil's Dictatorship (10 pages) |
Synopsis | Satan has decided to take on a human form to join all evil men together. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mr. Justice [Prince James]; Satan [Adolf Hitler] (villain, story implies that both are the same, but the Devil could be possessing Hitler) |
Notes | Originally credited to Sam Cooper. The art is similar to Warren's signed Fox story. Many faces and figures popping in from the panel borders at an angle, and slender women, are all earmarks of his work. |
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Comic Story | Parade of Peril (11 pages) |
Synopsis | Rang, Rich and Hy are touring around the country, and meet men trying to collect graft money from the circus they are touring with. |
Content | Characters: Rang-A-Tang (dog); Detective Hy Speed; Richy [The Amazing Boy]; Mike Vincent (villain, introduction) |
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Comic Story | The Roadhouse Murders (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Stopping at a roadhouse, Paul and Ruth discover two dead bodies. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Fox [Paul Patton] (photographer); Ruth Ransom (reporter) |
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Comic Story | The Debut of Penny Parker (4 pages) |
Synopsis | Penny is a young society girl, but one who'd rather work out in the gym than go to her own coming out party. When she uncovers a thief disguised as a reporter at the party her parents throw for her, she is given the idea to start her own detective agency with her trainer, the pugilistic Pug. |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Penny Parker (introduction); Mr. Parker (introduction); Mrs. Parker (introduction); Pug (introduction); unnamed thief (villain) |
Notes | A very doubtful Novick credit, as the art don't look much like his work. It looks similar to the Penny Parker stories in #14 and 15, and they have an unreadable signature that is not Irv Novick. |
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Comic Story | Fight at Fort George (7 pages) |
Synopsis | An Italian inspired Moslem attack on an outpost in the Libyan Desert. |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Corporal Collins; Slapsie; Mahatmama (villain, introduction); Muslims (villains) |
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Comic Story | The Coney Island Crook Chase (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Ty-Gor is spending a day at Coney Island and chases a thief. |
Content | Characters: Y-Gor [Tyrone Gorman]; A pickpocket (villain, introduction); Joan Davis (guest-star); Mr. Davis (guest-star) |
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Comic Story | A Flame for Justice (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Originally a crook working with a circus rubberman called the Twister, Frank decide to serve out his time and go straight after encountering Steel Sterling and even helping him capture another killer, the Rattler. While in prison he learns of a plot of escape and the murder of the judge responsible for convicting him and others. In order to save Judge Sands and his daughter, Inferno is forced to escape himself to deal with the convicts. The judge convinces him he can better serve the cause of justice by remaining an escaped convict and taking up the fight as a costumed crime-fighter. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Inferno [Frank Verrano] (former criminal); Judge Sands (introduction); Miss Sands (his daughter, introduction); A group of convicts (villains) |
Notes | Last appearance of Inferno [Frank Verrano] in Zip Comics #13.
Inferno becomes a costumed super-hero. |
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Comic Story | The Horsemen's Battle (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Logan is on a mission in Libya, to tell the Arabs on throwing in their lot with the British instead of the Italians. |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Loop Logan (pilot); Clatra (boy servant); Major Grazionni (villain, introduction); Ali Ben Nabe (villain, introduction, death) |
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Comic Story | The Marriage of the Green Falcon (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Green Falcon marries Maid Marion; war with Spain ends. |
Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Green Falcon; King John (villain); Sir Boltyn (villain) |
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