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Publisher: Archie

Title: Zip Comics
Issue: 28
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: August 1942
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Harry Shorten

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Zip Comics #28
Owner: gino2paulus2

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Steel Sterling; The Web
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; The Web [John Raymond]; Baron Gestapo


Story Title: Zip Proudly Presents - foreword, introduction, preface, afterword
Pages:1
Synopsis:Contents of the issue.


Story Title: Dragons of Doom - comic story
Features:Steel Sterling
Pages:13
Pencils:Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Inks:Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Baron Gestapo (villain)
Synopsis:Baron Gestapo is loose again and his dread hand is reaching across the vast Pacific, hovering over America's greatest General like a talon of death. But zipping to the rescue, in a desperate race against time, Steel Sterling, Man of Steel, takes on the crafty villain.


Story Title: The Coming of the Web - comic story
Features:The Web
Pages:12
Pencils:Irv Novick ?
Inks:Irv Novick ?
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Web [John Raymond] (origin in flashback); Tom Raymond (the Web's brother, introduction, flashback); Count Berlin (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:"The Web is born! How did this unique, awe-inspiring force for justice come into being? Why did he adopt the guise of a web? The answers are told in a story that reaches a crashing crescendo of thrills and excitement." [from Table of Contents]


Story Title: The Seven Strikes Death - comic story
Pages:11
Genre:superhero
Characters:Black Jack [Jack Jones]; The Black Seven (villain, death)
Synopsis:A fortune teller warns Black Seven that his luck will finally end, and when a robbery goes bad, he flees from Black Jack. He runs into a "Chamber of Horrors" at a local carnival and manages to get the upper hand over the hero and ties him to a guillotine. But, lightning strikes the blade and, trying to dodge it, Black Seven stumbles backwards into a pit, complete with death-dealing spikes.


Story Title: Men with Tails - comic story
Pages:1
Genre:non-fiction
Synopsis:Weird facts.


Story Title: Fourth of July Blues - comic story
Features:Wilbur
Pages:7
Pencils:Lin Streeter
Inks:Lin Streeter
Genre:teen
Characters:Wilbur Wilkin; Robert Wilkin (dad); Jimmy; Marmaduke
Synopsis:Wilbur and Jimmy get Marmaduke to make them fireworks for the 4th of July but have to hide them in an un-used cannon when Wilbur's dad walks by.


Story Title: The Devil's Hand - comic story
Features:Stories of the Black Witch
Pages:6
Pencils:Warren King (signed) [as King]
Inks:Warren King (signed) [as King]
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Black Witch; Philip Wylie; Tom Grayson
Synopsis:A shriveled hand brings bad luck to whoever possesses it.


Story Title: Pep Comics is Never Satisfied - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Synopsis:Ad for Pep Comics.


Story Title: John V. Newkirk - Scarsdale Jack - comic story
Features:Zip's Hall of Fame
Pages:6
Pencils:Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks:Paul Reinman (signed)
Genre:non-fiction; war
Characters:John Newkirk
Synopsis:Scarsdale Jack fights with the Flying Tigers to keep the Pacific safe.


Story Title: All Out for Freedom - comic story
Features:Zambini the Miracle Man
Pages:6
Pencils:Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks:Paul Reinman (signed)
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Zambini; Rex (a sea captain); Rex (a sea captain, in flashback); Rex's wife (death, in flashback); Zog (magician, in flashback)
Synopsis:Zambini relates he story of an ancient magician Zog and another ancient sea captain named Rex (from the days of ancient Rome and Greece) to another old sea captain named Rex who was thinking of committing suicide as opposed to being a burden on his wife and daughter. The story inspires him that, while he is able, he can devote himself to fighting for freedom and do some kind of service for his country. And, while he can do that, he's not a burden.


Story Title: [ no title ] - public service announcement
Pages:1
Pencils:? (illustration)
Inks:? (illustration)
Letters:?; typeset
Genre:advocacy
Synopsis:The publishers donated this space, on behalf of the U.S. Savings Bonds and War Stamps campaign, to published a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., encouraging the boys and girls of America to buy at least one 10 cent Savings Stamp each week to help the war effort.


Story Title: A Portrait Picture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Synopsis:Ad for Comicscope, a camera projector. Available from MLJ Magazines.


Story Title: Will You Let Me Prove I Can Make You A New Man? - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Synopsis:Ad for Charles Atlas body-building.


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