Zip

Zip was a weekly comic published by Odhams Press, launched on 4 January 1958, as a venue for the original strips from Mickey Mouse Weekly after Odhams lost the rights to Disney characters. It ran for 85 issues before it was merged into Swift in 1959.

Strips included:

• "Billy Brave" (Tony Weare)
• "The Brainy B's" (Redvers Blake)
• "Brett Brand"
• "Captain Morgan" (Colin Andrew)
• "Nigel Tawny, Explorer" (Redvers Blake)
• "Pony Express" (Don Lawrence)
• "Robin Alone" (E. O.)
• "Skippy" (Robert MacGillivray)
• "Strongbow the Mighty" (Gerry Embleton)
• "Tarna the Jungle Boy" (Harry Bishop"
• "Wells Fargo" (Don Lawrence)

References

• Denis Gifford, Encyclopedia of Comic Characters, Longman, 1987