Zip Comics No1: Vintage Golden Age Superhero Comic | February 1940
$10.99This paperback reprint of Zip Comics No1 is a high-quality reproduction of the digital scans of the original comic book. It features all of the original artwork and stories.
Stories in this issue include:
Steel Stirling The Man of Steel
John Sterling completes the chemical formula which will completely protect him from the underworld’s bullets, unlike his murdered father who was killed by a group of ruthless gangsters. John bathes himself in the formula, which has been poured into a cauldron of molten steel, dives in the cauldron, and emerges as a man with the resistance, magnetism and strength of steel.
The Scarlet Avenger
Jim Kendall has devoted himself to wiping out gangland since the death of his wife and child while flying in a hijacked plane, which crashed, and in which all were killed except Jim. In the accident, his face muscles were paralyzed and Jim became the man who never smiled. Kendall has a giant scientific brain, and uses that science to the aid of his crusade.
The Rustlers of South Valley
The Cattleman’s Association has sent Nevada Jones to help Irene Cox prevent her herd being stolen by rustlers.
“Kalthar, mighty giant of the jungle……..”
Kalthar is a white man, wild and cunning and strong as the beasts whose language he speaks. He has been reared from infancy by savage blacks, the Ugarnas, who were rescued from Arab slavers by Kalthar’s father. Freeing the Ugarnas, Kalthar’s father lost his own life. The fleeing blacks took with them his boy child, and called him Kalthar or God Son.
The Devil’s Flying Twins
The Shane twins are rich Americans who join the British Air Force to continue a feud with the German sportsman, Herr Schultz.
The Pirates of Ho Tsin
Captain Valor resigns his commission in the U.S. Marine Corps to seek adventure, and, aided by Ronnie and Angie, heads to China to battle the evil Ho Tsin.
The Eye of Oglu
A young girl’s father is missing after a series of weird happenings. She suspects foul play and contacts Dudley for help, who dons a purple costume with yellow cape and ventures out to help as Mr. Satan, international detective and soldier of fortune.
The Ritania-Hundaria War
The king of Ritania begs Zambini to help him win the war against Hundania. Hundanian spies place a huge and deadly cobra, whose bite means death, in Zambini’s bedroom.
Originally published February 1940 by M.L.J. Magazines.
