Airboy Comics #v5#7 [54]

(August 1948)

[Spangles' Drug Smuggling Ring] (Table of Contents)

Airboy / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dick Wood

Pencils:

Dan Zolnerowich

Inks:

Dan Zolnerowich

Colors:

Dick Wood

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; aviation

Characters:

Airboy [David Nelson II]; James Nelson (Airboy's father)

Indexer Notes

3rd appearance of James Nelson, Airboy's father.

[The Seven Little Men] (Table of Contents)

Flying Fool / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Zolnerowich

Inks:

Dan Zolnerowich

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Indexer Notes

Wing Ding app.

Old Hickory and the Major (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Arthur Peddy?

Inks:

Arthur Peddy?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

True story

The Man Who Broke the Banks At Monte Carlo (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

True story

The Rangers Take Over (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Dinosaur! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Arthur Peddy?

Inks:

Arthur Peddy?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

[The Ruthless Red Darrow] (Table of Contents)

The Heap / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carmine Infantino [as Infantino] (signed)

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino [as Infantino] (signed)

Inks:

Leonard Starr [as Starr] (signed)

Colors:

Carmine Infantino ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Blinky Smith (villain, Red's brother, death); Red Darrow (villain, Blinky's sister, death); Scarou Le Blanc (villain, death); Pepe Bulon (villain, death); Doane (villain)

Synopsis:

Fleeing from America to France, Red and Blinky Darrow, broke and down on their luck, decide to pit two fellow criminal friends of their against one another so that they can step in and take over their gang operations. Eliminating her brother when he gets too cautious, Red decides that she needs a bodyguard, and, whe see accidently runs across the Heap, she figures he's the likely choice.....with fatal results!

Reprints:

• in Showcase (PS Artbooks, 2013 series) #nn (2013)
• in Roy Thomas Presents The Heap (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #2 (January 2013)

Keywords:

Paris

Indexer Notes

Writer credit verified by Leonard Starr in Alter Ego #110 (June 2012).

This story was reprinted in a very special limited edition large booklet prepared for the London Super Comic Convention for 2013 by PS Artbooks, along with many covers and full comic stories and short comic featurettes from the 1940's and early 1950's.