Zip Comics Archives

Zip Comics #17 featured the end of the Scarlet Avenger in the Golden Age, making way for teen humor character Wilbur Wilkin ahead of the debut of Archie.  This issue also features a "superhero horror" style cover by Charles Biro of the kind that he and Irv Novick had made a trademark at MLJ An[...]

Combat #59 story about the exploits of a soldier and former major leaguer nicknamed "Boy Wonder."  But the Zip Comics #25 Steel Sterling story written by Kanigher and drawn by Irv Novick holds its own among these strange baseball stories, and it seems to have been inspired by the 1941 World Series between the Brooklyn[...]

At a time when competition was so fierce to stake claims on superhero territory that lawsuits and legal threats were common, MLJ managed to launch a super strong, super durable, super fast, flying superhero with a red and blue costume who was soon boldly proclaimed the Man of Steel on covers, and there is no[...]

A well-remembered MLJ superhero due to his spider web-themed costume, the Web debuted in Zip Comics #27, cover-dated July 1942 The character was created by artist John Cassone and an unknown writer, possibly Zip Comics series editor Harry Shorten The Web was a criminologist who used the principle that a criminal can always be caught[...]

Zip Comics was published from 1940- 1944, spanning 47 issues Do you know who graced each cover of those 47 issues? That's right, it was Steel Sterling MLJ Magazines, now more popularly known as Archie, wanted in on the superhero game that was sweeping the nation, and hence Zip Comics was born Steel Sterling go[...]

One of the MLJ superhero line's most interesting bad guys, The Black Knight was a powerful and dangerous supervillain who debuted in Zip Comics #1 and returned for revenge in Zip Comics #2 — and beyond "The Death-Master of the Underworld" as he was called, the Black Knight was a ruthless leader and super-scientist with[...]

Combat #59 story about the exploits of a soldier and former major leaguer nicknamed "Boy Wonder."  But the Zip Comics #25 Steel Sterling story written by Kanigher and drawn by Irv Novick holds its own among these strange baseball stories, and it seems to have been inspired by the 1941 World Series between the Brooklyn[...]

Zip Comics #17 featured the end of the Scarlet Avenger in the Golden Age, making way for teen humor character Wilbur Wilkin ahead of the debut of Archie An early Golden Age MLJ comic book that rarely comics up for sale in anything above low grade, there's a Zip Comics #17 (MLJ, 1941) Condition: FR/GD[...]