Wings Comics #69

(May 1946)

["Tiger, tiger, skulking the Burma bush...but the..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

? [as Major T. E. Bowen]

Pencils:

Lee Elias

Inks:

Lee Elias ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

V: Lal Singh (I, D); King Phaya; I: Princess Aubiliala; Jakuh

Indexer Notes

HS notes different inks than previous episodes that were signed by Elias.

["The stakes were high when two Mexican airlines..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

? [as F.E. Lincoln]

Pencils:

Fran Hopper

Inks:

Fran Hopper; Marcia Snyder

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

V: Darango (I); I: Jose Progreso and his son

Wings' Air Mail (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

["Oboy! If the army wuz like this, I'd..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

? [as Kip Beales]

Pencils:

Alex Blum ?; Gus Schrotter ?

Inks:

? [shop]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

V: Dr. Phineas A. G. Applebottom (I); Maisie (I)

Corsair of the Monsoon Skies ["La Prensa. air minister Fuente out as bribe..."] (Table of Contents)

Suicide Smith / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]

Pencils:

Alvin Hollingsworth (signed)

Inks:

Alvin Hollingsworth (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

V: Don Fuente (I, D); GS: Dale Johnson; Mr. Johnson

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

The Emperor of Tomorrow (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Jans Jorgesen]

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

war

Who Is the Phantom Falcon? [part 2] (Table of Contents)

The Phantom Falcon / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as William Brooks]

Pencils:

Joey Cavallo (signed)

Inks:

Joey Cavallo (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

I & O: The Phantom Falcon (Clipper Kirk; cont'd from story in #68); V: K7; Anton (I, D); and other enemy agents (I for all)

["So you think you know aviation, eh? This..."] (Table of Contents)

Wing Tips / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Peppe (signed)

Inks:

Mike Peppe (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Synopsis:

Aviation quiz.

Sky-Duel of the Near-Dead (Table of Contents)

Ghost Patrol / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Capt. Derek West]

Pencils:

Maurice Whitman

Inks:

Maurice Whitman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Characters:

Ghost Patrol; I: Lt. Tom Briggs (temporarily D); V: Capt. Von Heill (I, D); GS: Death

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #113 (Winter 1951) [abridged from nine pages to six]

Indexer Notes

HS points out in a lengthly digression how he once mistook this for Rafael Astarita, but now sees it more objectively.