Wings Comics #23

(July 1942)

Have You Seen the Sensational New Rangers Comics? (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Rangers Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Skull Squad / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Ace Atkins]

Pencils

Arthur F. Peddy

Inks

Arthur F. Peddy

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A trio of daredevil fliers, Kent Douglas, Englishman...

Genre

war

Traitor Bait (Table of Contents: 3)

Suicide Smith / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers]

Pencils

Joe Doolin

Inks

Joe Doolin

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

war

Battling Eagle of Bataan (Table of Contents: 4)

Capt. Derek West / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Captain Derek West]

Pencils

George Appel

Inks

George Appel

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

war

Indexer Notes

All lettering is typeset. Text runs across the tops of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain Wings and the Hell-Diver Squadron / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Major T. E. Bowen]

Pencils

Maxwell Elkan

Inks

Rudy Palais?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the dark days of the blitz over...

Genre

war

Build the Curtiss P-40F (Table of Contents: 6)

activity / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Gene Fawcette?

Pencils

Gene Fawcette (signed)

Inks

Gene Fawcette (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; aviation

Indexer Notes

Templates to build a scale model airplane.

Help Protect America! (Table of Contents: 7)

Wing Tips / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Gene Fawcette?

Inks

Gene Fawcette?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; aviation

Indexer Notes

Silhouettes of four combat aircraft: Cant Z.509 (Italy), Savoia-Marchetti SM.55X (Italy), Blohm and Voss HA.140 (Germany), Dornier DO.26 (Germany).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Parachute Patrol / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Casey McKay]

Pencils

Aldo Rubano?; Pagsilang Rey Isip?

Inks

Aldo Rubano?; Pagsilang Rey Isip?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

On a moonlit night outside their radio shack...

Genre

war

Indexer Notes

HS suggests Isip as a possibility here, but it doesn't look too much like the signed Isip in issue #25. Last appearance.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Wings of America club page / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

? [as Captain Wings]

Pencils

Kingdon Piehl; C. G. Collins Jr.; Henry Hayashida

Inks

Kingdon Piehl; C. G. Collins Jr.; Henry Hayashida

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

These three air-minded Americans hit the bull's-eye this month!!!

Genre

aviation

Indexer Notes

Reproduces aircraft design drawings submitted by Kingdon Piehl, Henry Hayashida, and C. G. Collins Jr.

[Suicide Up - Greasemonkey Down] (Table of Contents: 10)

Wing's Air Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

? (editor's note)

Pencils

? (illustrations)

Inks

? (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

Greasemonkey Griffin

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Jack Mathes, Herbert Behrens, Chris Hauer, Jr., Cal Overholt, John Mesinger. Bottom third of the page has application to join the Wings of America Club.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Greasemonkey Griffin / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Kip Beales]

Pencils

Al Walker

Inks

Al Walker

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Von Schnapps, the Nazi fiend who collects British...

Genre

humor; war

Prey for the Eagle's Talons (Table of Contents: 12)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Sheridan Gray]

Pencils

? (illustrations)

Inks

? (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

war

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Jane Martin / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as F. E. Lincoln]

Pencils

Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed)

Inks

Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

At the Black Sea port of Batum, where the...

Genre

war

Reprints

• in Divas, Dames & Daredevils (Exterminating Angel Press, 2013 series) (2013)

Keywords

Crimea; U.S.S.R.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

Yank Aces of World War II / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pagsilang Rey Isip?

Inks

Pagsilang Rey Isip?

Colors

?

Letters

?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Adrift on a raft for 34 days, three...

Genre

non-fiction; war

Characters

Harold Dixon; Tony Pastula; Gene Aldrich

Synopsis

The crew of a US Navy bomber crash land at sea and must survive 34 days adrift in shark filled waters of the Pacific.

Keywords

albatross; raft; sharks

Indexer Notes

All lettering with the exception of one caption on first page is typeset. Text runs across the bottom of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15)

Clipper Kirk / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Cliff Dubois]

Pencils

Art Saaf

Inks

Art Saaf

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

To save a buddy's neck Clipper puts his...

Genre

war

Indexer Notes

The artist's name "Arthur Saaf" appears on a paper drawn in the splash panel.

The Big Six of the Comics Magazines (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Sing a Song of Sudden Death (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Senorita Rio; Fight Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)