#1068

Synopsis

Detectives Jack Jones and Whitey are betrayed by a fellow officer and fall into the hands of Lucky Lavitto and his gang. A fortune-teller had warned Lucky about "the Black Jack," so Lavitto seals Jones up in an airless space, then murders Whitey. Jones escapes with the help of a playing card, then decides to play dead and take on the costumed identity of Black Jack to capture the Lavitto gang and expose the crooked cop that betwayed him.

Notes

Reprinted from

• Zip Comics #20
• Zip Comics #21
• Zip Comics #22
• Zip Comics #23
• Zip Comics #24
• Zip Comics #25
• Zip Comics #26
• Zip Comics #27
• Zip Comics #28
• Zip Comics #29
• Zip Comics #30
• Zip Comics #31
• Zip Comics #32
• Zip Comics #33
• Zip Comics #34
• Zip Comics #35

Credits

Script

Scott Feldman

Pencils

Warren King, Irv Novick, Al Camy, Red Holmdale, Samm Schwartz, Sam Cooper

Inks

Warren King, Irv Novick, Al Camy, Red Holmdale, Samm Schwartz, Sam Cooper

Editor

Lance Jones

Original editor

Harry Shorten

Characters

• Black Jack
• Steel Sterling
• Jack Jones
• Adolf Hitler
• John Sterling
• The Web
• John Raymond
• Joseph Goebbels
• J. Edgar Hoover
• Marie Antoinette