(July 1943)

Fiction House, 1940 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
60
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
On-sale Date
1943-05-25
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Wings Pub. Co.
Editing
Dana E. Dutch

Issue Notes

Story titles, genres, page counts and credits added by Craig Delich 2/2006. Entire issue revised/updated 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV. Updated by BD 2/2016. Note that the brand emblem logo is blank. On-sale date given in previous issue.

Hell's Lightning (Table of Contents)

Capt. Derek West / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Art Saaf (signed)
Inks
Art Saaf (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
war
Characters
Nazis
Keywords
planes; World War II

Earth the Year of Doom.. 2999 (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

The Lost World; Planet Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

Captain Wings / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Lubbers (signed)
Inks
Bob Lubbers (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Once there was a slant-eyed midget who grew...
Genre
war

Indexer Notes

No writer's byline for this story.

[no title indexed] (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
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A strange assignment confronts Suicide Smith, army intelligence...
Genre
war

Hell's Lightning (Table of Contents: 4)

Capt. Derek West / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils
Lee Elias; Art Saaf (cover scene)
Inks
Lee Elias; Art Saaf (cover scene)
Colors
?
Letters
?; typeset

Genre
war

Indexer Notes

Story title also appears on the cover. Copy of cover art used on page two of this sequence. All lettering with the exception of one caption on first page is typeset. Text runs across the bottoms of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects.

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

Greasemonkey Griffin / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils
Mort Leav
Inks
Mort Leav ?; ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Our hero has been haunting a couple of...
Genre
humor; aviation; war
Characters
Greasemonkey Griffin; Adolf Hitler; Plotz; Herring; Bink
Keywords
dogfight

Messerschmitt Madness (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Douglas Bell]
Letters
typeset

Genre
war

Vultee Vengeance (Table of Contents: 7)

Wing Tips / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rafael Astarita
Inks
Rafael Astarita
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction; aviation; war
Keywords
Vultee Vengeance fighter plane

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

Skull Squad / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils
Robert Webb; David Heames ?
Inks
? [shop]
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Grim tales splash our press these tense days...
Genre
war

Indexer Notes

HW suggests David Heames as a possible co-penciller.

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

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

Script
? [as F. E. Lincoln]
Pencils
Lily Renee [as L. Renee] (signed)
Inks
Lily Renee [as L. Renee] (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Treachery, mystery, and the blood-chilling whine of Stuka...
Genre
war

[Actions Speak Louder Than Words] (Table of Contents: 10)

Wings' Air Mail / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Dana E. Dutch
Pencils
? (illustrations)
Inks
? (illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Greasemonkey Griffin

Indexer Notes

Story title taken from the title of the first letter of comment. Letters of comment from Barton L. Smith, Albet Darago, "Flight E", Evelyn Buess, Tom Flynn, "Flight I", Charlotte Feeney, Richard Levin, Roland Pigeon, Dinty J. O'Brien, Roy Molen, Naomi Stonehocker, Richard Brown, Lt. Thomas A. Quinn (Ret.)

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

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

Script
Cliff DuBois (signed)
Pencils
Graham Ingels
Inks
Graham Ingels
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Suppressed by Mussolini, the Black Hand Society in Sicily...
Genre
war

The Big Six of the Comics Magazines (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

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

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Hell's Lightning
    Capt. Derek West
  2. 1. Earth the Year of Doom.. 2999
    The Lost World; Planet Comics
  3. 2. ["Once there was a slant-eyed midget who grew..."]
    Captain Wings
  4. 3. ["A strange assignment confronts Suicide Smith, army intelligence..."]
    Suicide Smith
  5. 4. Hell's Lightning
    Capt. Derek West
  6. 5. ["Our hero has been haunting a couple of..."]
    Greasemonkey Griffin
  7. 6. Messerschmitt Madness
  8. 7. Vultee Vengeance
    Wing Tips
  9. 8. ["Grim tales splash our press these tense days..."]
    Skull Squad
  10. 9. ["Treachery, mystery, and the blood-chilling whine of Stuka..."]
    Jane Martin
  11. 10. [Actions Speak Louder Than Words]
    Wings' Air Mail
  12. 11. ["Suppressed by Mussolini, the Black Hand Society in Sicily..."]
    Clipper Kirk
  13. 12. The Big Six of the Comics Magazines
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Craig Delich
  • Bill Devine
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Del Gruber
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Mitchell Maglio
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Patrick Shaughnessy
  • Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
  • Jim Van Dore