Zip Comics #31 Values

COVER DETAILS

Characters: Steel Sterling; Web; Black Jack

Pencils: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)

Inks: Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)

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STORY DETAILS

Story #1 Story #2 Story #3 Story #4 Story #5 Story #6 Story #7 Story #8 (8 Stories)

Title: The Merchant of Hate

Characters: Web [John Raymond]; Adolf Hitler (Villain); Heydrich (Villain; Intro; Death); Nazis (Villain); Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Franck and their baby (Intro; Death); Jimmy Denning (Intro)

Synopsis: This is the tale of a town somewhere in Europe, Lidice, and its destruction by the Nazis.

Pages: 13.000

Pencils: Sam Burlockoff ?

Inks: Sam Burlockoff ?

Notes: Title from inside front cover. Originally credited "Irv Novick?", not him, but has more in common with Burlockoff's signed story in #33, such as noses and scowling mouth. Uncertain.

Title: The Creeper

Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; The Creeper (Villain; Intro)

Synopsis: Steel in his struggle against the arch saboteur, the Creeper, who starts as a green costumed attraction at the circus.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Joe Blair

Pencils: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)

Inks: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)

Title: The Clubfoot

Characters: Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Clubfoot (Intro; Villain; implied he is really Josef Goebbels); Schultz (Villain; Intro); Hauser (Villain; Intro); Jan Morski (Intro; Death); King of Ptomania (Intro)

Synopsis: The Clubfoot has come to America to kidnap the exciled King of Ptomania and take him to Germany, but Black Jack gets in his way.

Pages: 11.000

Pencils: Red Holmdale (signed)

Inks: Red Holmdale (signed)

Notes: Title from inside front cover

Title: The Football Season

Characters: Wilbur Wilkin; Principal Tootlefruit

Synopsis: The football season and all the students are out for the team with that good old Westfield spirit.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)

Inks: Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)

Notes: Joe Kubert mentioned on pg. 1 as a "student".

Title: Some Killers Work Slowly

Characters: Web [John Raymond]; Steve Lescott; Martha Shannon

Pages: 2.000

Script: Scott Feldman

Letters: typeset

Title: The General's Radio

Characters: Zoom O'Day (Marine pilot); Liverlips (sidekick); General Mueller (Villain; Intro); Adolf Hitler (Villain); Nazis (Villain)

Synopsis: Zoom and Liverlips are on a strafing mission on Euphrates River and are shot down, but escape and blow up a river dam.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Joe Kubert ([as Joe] (signed)

Inks: Joe Kubert ([as Joe] (signed)

Notes: Originally credited "Red Holmdale?", but is is Kubert. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Compare the artwork with Kubert's signed Spark Stevens story in Blue Beetle #13. Early work.

Title: Major Devereux, Warrior of Wake Island

Characters: Major Devereux

Synopsis: The battle of Wake Island in the Pacific, December 1941.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Title: Case No. 2 of People America Can Do Without

Characters: Zambini (magician); Mayor Drake and his girlfriend (Intro)

Synopsis: On needlessly use of cars when sailors die to bring gasoline.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Harry Shorten?

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

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