Best Place to Sell Zip Comics #7

Publisher: Archie, 1940

About Zip Comics #7

Steel Sterling the "Man of Steel" bondage / guillotine cover by Charles Biro. Story art by Biro, Irv Novick, and Mort Meskin.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Steel Sterling

Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)

Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Title: Uwana's Life-or-Death Loan Company

Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Dora Cummings; Clancy McGinty (Police); A district attorney (villain, introduction, death); the Uwana Loan Company (villains, introduction)

Synopsis: Witnesses are killed for testifying against protection and loan racketeers.

Pages: 14.000

Script: Abner Sundell [as Sundell] (signed)

Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)

Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed)

Title: The Head in the Parachute

Characters: The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall); Inez Courtney (Operative No.1); Maxie Malarky (villain, introduction); John Doughboy (introduction, death)

Synopsis: The severed head of a witness in a policy racket case lands in a parachute in the street, as a warning.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Harry Shorten (signed)

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

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

Notes: The artist also signs - as "Novick" - on the final page.

Title: Cervantes's Sacrifice Cult

Characters: Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Don Cervantes (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis: Nevada and Little Joe are witnesses to a human sacrifice in an old castle in the desert town of Taranto.

Pages: 6.000

Inks: Frank Volp

Notes: Art is identical to Volp's many signed and unsigned Loop Logan stories in Blue Ribbon Comics, from #4. He can be spotted by his very realistic horses in #13, bony faces with marked cheek lines and mouth inked in two short lines. Also the small lines on each side of nose or smiling cheeks. Compare as well his signed London stories in Daredevil Comics #9 and 10 (Lev Gleason)

Title: The Rescue of Prof. Goodwill

Characters: Kalthar; Pierre LeBrun (villain); Kate Goodwill (guest-star); Prof. Goodwill

Synopsis: Prof. Goodwill has discovered a diamond vein in an ancient city and is taken prisoner by men who will force him to tell where the secret vein is.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Harry Shorten

Pencils: Robert Pious

Inks: Robert Pious

Notes: Originally credited to Lin Streeter. Pious is also credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art is identical to his signed story in #2.

Title: The U-Boat Aircraft Carriers

Characters: Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Kermit (pilot); Anton Schultz (villain)

Synopsis: The Germans will launch airplanes from a U-boat off Plymouth.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Ed Smalle, Jr. (signed)

Inks: Ed Smalle, Jr. (signed)

Title: Fire on the Junk

Characters: Captain Valor; Yat Sing (villain); Tania (villain); Ronnie (guest-star); Angie (guest-star); Big Dip (guest-star)

Synopsis: Valor and his friends are marooned on a barren island off the Chinese coast. Yat Sing and his followers are also on the island and try to kill Valor, but Tania wants them all to join forces.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Abner Sundell [as Sundell] (signed)

Pencils: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed)

Inks: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed)

Title: Zotter the Blackmailer

Characters: Mr. Satan (Dudley Bradshaw); Doris O'Day; Gladys; Zotter (villain, introduction); his blackmailing gang (villains, introduction, death)

Synopsis: Mr. Satan smashes up a blackmailer gang hiding on an old freighter in the harbor.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Abner Sundell

Pencils: Edd Ashe

Inks: Edd Ashe

Title: Abdul Khil's Trap for Zambini

Characters: Zambini (magician); Abdul Khil (villain, introduction, turns into a donkey)

Synopsis: Abdul Khil, leader of the Black Magic Magicians, plots Zambini's death when he arrives in Morocco.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Joe Blair (signed)

Pencils: Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)

Inks: Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	2	3	2	1	3	0	2	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	26
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	2	3	2	1	3	0	2	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	27

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