(January 1945)

Fiction House, Wings Publishing Co. imprint, 1940 Series
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Volume:
?
Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
52
Editing:
John F. Byrne (Managing Editor); Ruth Atkinson (Editor)
Format: 
10 cents; Standard Golden Age U.S.; saddle-stitched; newsprint; glossy cover; full color

Table of Contents

  1. 1. ["Closer...closer roared the red-balled plane--closer to..."]
    Captain Wings
  2. 2. ["After an evening's mess, our hero wastes some..."]
    Greasemonkey Griffin
  3. 3. ["Somewhere in England a lone Typhoon noses down..."]
    Suicide Smith
  4. 4. Flying Catfish
    Wing Tips
  5. 5. Robot Death Over Manhattan ["C.O. paging us. I wonder what's up?"]
    Skull Squad
  6. 6. Wings' Air Mail
    Wings' Air Mail
  7. 7. ["Many details lie buried in the electric shock..."]
    Jane Martin
  8. 8. Peace With a Pencil
  9. 9. ["Up the Tyrrhenian plows a Navy carrier...against..."]
    Clipper Kirk
This issue was most recently indexed by:
  • Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Lou Mougin
  • Jim Walls
  • Gary L. Watson
  • Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
  • Mike Nielsen
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Robot Death Over Manhattan (Table of Contents)

Skull Squad / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Art Saaf
Inks:
Art Saaf
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
war

["Closer...closer roared the red-balled plane--closer to..."] (Table of Contents)

Captain Wings / story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils:
Lee Elias (signed)
Inks:
Lee Elias (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
war
Characters:
Captain Wings
Reprinted:
  • in Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #112 (1950) [abridged/modified]

["After an evening's mess, our hero wastes some..."] (Table of Contents)

Greasemonkey Griffin / story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils:
Alex Blum
Inks:
Alex Blum?; shop
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
war
Characters:
Greasemonkey Griffin

["Somewhere in England a lone Typhoon noses down..."] (Table of Contents)

Suicide Smith / story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils:
Jack Keller
Inks:
Jack Keller?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
war
Characters:
Suicide Smith

Flying Catfish (Table of Contents)

Wing Tips / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Gene Colan?
Inks:
Gene Colan?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
fact

Robot Death Over Manhattan ["C.O. paging us. I wonder what's up?"] (Table of Contents)

Skull Squad / story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils:
Matt Baker
Inks:
Matt Baker; [shop]
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
war
Characters:
Skull Squad

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

Wings' Air Mail (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

["Many details lie buried in the electric shock..."] (Table of Contents)

Jane Martin / story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
War
Characters:
Jane Martin

Indexer Notes

HS and HW guess Atkinson and Isip, respectively, but I don't see either of them. This is too crude.

Peace With a Pencil (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
? [as L. L. Trent]
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
war

["Up the Tyrrhenian plows a Navy carrier...against..."] (Table of Contents)

Clipper Kirk / story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils:
Gene Colan (signed)
Inks:
Gene Colan (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
war
Characters:
Clipper Kirk

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