Wings Comics #45

(May 1944)

["And the torch of freedom which burned at..."] (Table of Contents)

Captain Wings / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ruben Moreira [as Rubimor]

Inks:

Ruben Moreira [as Rubimor]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Characters:

Capt. Hashika (villain, introduction); the Japanese (villains)

["A bumper crop of inventors blooms in the..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

? [as Kip Beales]

Pencils:

Alex Blum; Gus Schrotter

Inks:

Alex Blum; ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Characters:

Lord Penbroken (introduction); Prof. Poppen J. Ipswitch (introduction); Hermann Goering (villain); Nazis (villains)

Hell's Cargo (Table of Contents)

Clipper Kirk ["They began building her in 1940 with the..."] / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Cliff Dubois]

Pencils:

Lee Elias (signed)

Inks:

Lee Elias (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Characters:

Franklin D. Roosevelt (guest-star); Winston Churchill (guest-star); Josef Stalin (guest-star); Chiang Kai-Shek (guest-star); The Nazis (villains)

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover.

["An RAF base in England:" "Sorry Jimmy, no mail..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

? [as Ace Atkins]

Pencils:

Ruth Atkinson (signed)

Inks:

Ruth Atkinson (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Characters:

The Nazis (villains)

The Hellcat (Table of Contents)

Wing Tips / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ruth Atkinson (signed)

Inks:

Ruth Atkinson (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

fact

["At allied GHQ on the island of Gibraltar.."] (Table of Contents)

Jane Martin / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as F.E. Lincoln]

Pencils:

Lily Renee (signed)

Inks:

Lily Renee (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Characters:

The Nazis (villains); Pilo (introduction); three pilots (introductions); Jane Martin

Reprints:

• in The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #279

n/a (Table of Contents)

Wings' Air Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

The Hero of Djebel Bou Arada (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Alex Blum; Arnold Hicks?

Inks:

Arnold Hicks; [shop]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Indexer Notes

The "Yank Aces..." title is not used here and the hero is an infantryman.

Thunder In the Alps (Table of Contents)

n/a / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as L. L. Trent]

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

war

["Somewhere in the northern Balkans:" "This makes the seventh..."] (Table of Contents)

Suicide Smith / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]

Pencils:

Lee Elias (signed)

Inks:

Lee Elias (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Characters:

Trina (introduction); The Nazis (villains)