Zip comic books issue 2

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Life Before Velcro. Stories, art and cover by Bill Griffith. Reprints of the daily strip featuring Griffiths existentialist hero, Zippy the Pinhead, including a handful of Sunday strips in full color, plus a new Zippy story. Zippy and Griffy travel back to the early 20th century and encounter pioneering cartoon character The Yellow Kid. 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. 48 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $4.95.

Edited by Abner Sundell. Cover art by Charles Biro. "The Return of the Black Knight," art by Charles Biro; In the state penitentiary, a gang of desperate convicts begin a well-planned escape; They are going to hi-jack a boatload of gold from Alaska. One-page Mugsy story by Kin Platt (as Quincy). "The Protection Racket," script by Harry Shorten, art by Irv Novick; A bomb is tossed from a speeding car into a shop and kills a tailor, and the police won't listen to Jim as a witness. "Introducing the Masked Man," art by Frank Volp; Nevada Jones gains masked identity. "The Ivory Hunters," script by Harry Shorten, art by Robert Pious; Taking the red grain that turns him into a giant of 15 feet, Kalthar wreaks havoc among a gang of ivory hunters. "Herr Schultz's Luftwaffe Trap," art by Ed Smalle; The Shane brothers refuse to become squadron leaders. "The Oregon Death Dealer!" text story, art by Lin Streeter. "The Revenge of Hop-Lung," script by Abner Sundell, art by Mort Meskin; Captain Valor and his two friends help a couple of American missionaries besieged in the mountains by a pirate gang. "The Monster of Shadow Pond," script by Harry Shorten, art by Ed Ashe; Three men had disappeared into Shadow Pond, and never returned; Tracks of a prehistoric monster had been found. Cyclone Jones one-page story by Quincy. "On the Planet Inferno," script by Joe Blair, art by Elmer Wexler; A new planet will burn up the Earth in 48 hours, and Zambini uses his magic to get to the planet on a palm tree growing like a beanstalk. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Story Art and Cover by Bill Griffith. B&W Cover price $0.75.

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Stories and art by Ruben Moreira, Al Plastino and Ralph Mayo. 1940s Chesler heroes Rocketman and Rocketgirl return in new guises as Zip-Jet and Pat. "Tech" Carson and his "girl Friday" Pat put on their jet suits when they discover that an old mobster has a new trick: hijacking long-distance moving trucks. Aircraft designer Norton Bemis asks Zip-Jet and Pat to investigate a series of crashes. Zip-Jet and Pat learn that Ned Bailey's life is in danger after he finds an old pirate map. Terror Strikes the Turnpike; Assassin of the Air Lanes; Green Scaled Justice; Space Doom; Murder Hides Its Tracks. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Tom Waltz (w); Casey Maloney (a); Adriano Loyola (c) Gene Simmons' stranger in a strange land tale continues, as Denizen Xeng Ral, a solitary fugitive to Earth from his own world, the Nether Ether, finds strange allies in a good-hearted drug dealer and a hardened police detective. Lethal enemies abound, too, as the mysterious Celestial Defense Ministry joins Etherian Hunters in the desperate chase for the now-exposed Xeng Ral. Written by Tom Waltz, with art by Casey Maloney (Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Between). Cover price $3.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead is a pop culture icon. Born in underground comix, the surrealist character is now one of the most recognizable characters on the newspaper pages, and is currently in production as an animated series to debut on the Showtime Network in 2002. Syndicated since 1986 by King Features, ZIPPY is read in over 200 newspapers seven days a week. Zippy's trademark non-sequitur, "Are we having fun yet?" has become so often-repeated that it is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. His likeness was graphittied on the former Berlin Wall, while Dan Akroyd is rumored to have created his Saturday Night Live characters, the Coneheads, after seeing Zippy for the first time. With Zippy Annual 2001 (a.k.a. "Z2K1"), all of Griffith's hilarious strips from 2000 and 2001 are collected into one place to guide us into the 21st Century. Millennium fever never seemed so, well, absurd. Frivolity is a stern taskmaster, and these brilliant black-and-white dailies and color Sundays (Griffith is a master of color and the printing process of the newspaper page) spotlight Griffith's inimitably existential and surreal sense of humor. "Bill Griffith's nationally syndicated Zippy continually stretches the intellectual bounds of the daily newspaper strip," writes the San Francisco Examiner. Plus, it's damn funny. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

Volume 2 - 1st Printing. Written by Saki Okuse. Art and Cover by Aki Shimizu. Yusuke and Hikage have to lay low after a hit job. Hiiragi, Hikageâs sister, is sent to do a dangerous job. She partners with a group of assassins to go after Kazuma. But Kazuma is a worthier adversary than theyâd thought! ! ! When Hikage learns of the groupâs hit job, he rushed off with Yusuke to save his sister. But will he be able to make it in time, and do they even stand a chance against Kazuma in the first place? Softcover, 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 224 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. Cover price $9.99.

Gene Simmons welcomes you back again to the world of Etheria, deep within the Nether Ether. As Zipper rescues captives held by the Old Ones, they will stop at nothing to get their tendrils on him, sending their best after the rebellious Denizens of Ral. While they clash, the destruction of Etheria could be just a portal away. Cover price $2.95.

February 1934. 8 1/4" x 10 7/8", 64 pages, B&W/Red. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 2, Issue 3 - March 1939, 7" x 10", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.