Such inspirations start with the book's cover, credited to MLJ mainstay Harry Shorten, which depicts U.S. Army nurses bound and facing a Japanese firing squad, a scene likely inspired by the widely reported capture of the "Angels of Bataan" earlier that year. The six-page "Zip's Hall of Shame" feature in Zip Comics #33 chronicles the rise and violent fall of Nazi war criminal Reinhard Heydrich, the infamous Butcher of Prague, published only months after his assassination by Czech patriots in June 1942. A contrasting "Zip's Hall of Fame" feature tells the story of an Irish-American truck driver on the Burma Road, referring to the critical "lifeline to China" that had been cut off by Japanese forces in spring 1942.
Author: Mark Seifert
Published at: 2025-12-09 23:58:03
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