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"The Web says: 'It's a pip!! Read Zip!!'"
Characters
- Steel Sterling
- Web
- Black Jack
Credits
- Pencils: Irv Novick
- Inks: Irv Novick
The Merchant of Hate
Storyline
This is the tale of a town somewhere in Europe, Lidice, and its destruction by the Nazis.
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)
Credits
- Pencils: Sam Burlockoff (uncertain)
- Inks: Sam Burlockoff (uncertain)
Story 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.
The Creeper
Storyline
Steel in his struggle against the arch saboteur, the Creeper, who starts as a green costumed attraction at the circus.
Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]
- Clancy McGinty (Police)
- Looney
- The Creeper (Villain
- Intro)
Credits
- Script: Joe Blair
- Pencils: Irv Novick
- Inks: Irv Novick
The Clubfoot
Storyline
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.
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)
Credits
- Pencils: Red Holmdale
- Inks: Red Holmdale
Story Notes
Title from inside front cover
The Football Season
Storyline
The football season and all the students are out for the team with that good old Westfield spirit.
Characters
- Wilbur Wilkin
- Principal Tootlefruit
Credits
- Pencils: Bob Montana
- Inks: Bob Montana
Story Notes
Joe Kubert mentioned on pg. 1 as a "student".
Some Killers Work Slowly
Featuring A Web Story
Characters
- Web [John Raymond]
- Steve Lescott
- Martha Shannon
Credits
- Script: Simon Carmiggelt
"Gee, this is a swell record... but I can't for the life of me remember its name... and the label's torn off too!"
Storyline
Zoom and Liverlips are on a strafing mission on the Euphrates River and are shot down, but escape and blow up a river dam.
Characters
- Zoom O'Day
- Liverlips
- General Mueller (villain
- introduction)
- Adolf Hitler (villain)
- Nazis (villains)
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Kubert
- Inks: Joe Kubert
Story Notes
Compare the artwork with Kubert's signed Spark Stevens story in Blue Beetle (Holyoke, 1942 series) #13. Early work.
Major Devereux, Warrior of Wake Island
Storyline
The battle of Wake Island in the Pacific, December 1941.
Characters
- Major Devereux
Credits
- Pencils: Paul Reinman
- Inks: Paul Reinman
Case No. 2 of People America Can Do Without
Storyline
On needlessly use of cars when sailors die to bring gasoline.
Characters
- Zambini (magician)
- Mayor Drake and his girlfriend (Intro)
Credits
- Script: Harry Shorten (uncertain)
- Pencils: Paul Reinman
- Inks: Paul Reinman