Airboy Comics #v7#10 [81]

(November 1950)

[The Malobia Monkeys] (Table of Contents: 1)

Airboy / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Ernest Schroeder

Pencils

Ernest Schroeder

Inks

Ernest Schroeder

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Airboy [David Nelson II]

Indexer Notes

Writer credit by Roy Thomas.

The Jockey's Dream (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

sports

[Franz Bartos, Werewolf] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Heap / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ernest Schroeder ?

Pencils

Ernest Schroeder

Inks

Ernest Schroeder

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman] (origin re-cap with added details]; Baron von Emmelman (flashback, death); Count Bartos (death); Franz Bartos (villain, son of the Count, a werewolf, death)

Synopsis

Count Bartos is angry at his son because he will not go out and hunt wolves as he has done before. However, Franz claims the wolf they are after is a werewolf! Franz agrees to the hunt and faces the creature which bites him before the werewolf is killed. A few years later, the Baron and Franz are in the same air squadron, and Franz, at first, refuses to fly because of a full moon. When he does and crashes, the Baron sees a wolf at the controls.....and seconds later is shot down. Many years later, the Heap is drawn to Hungary and seeks out the Count's son, and later destroying him.

Reprints

• in Airboy (Horwitz, 1953 series) #5 ([1953?])
• in Roy Thomas Presents The Heap (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #2 (January 2013)

Indexer Notes

First name of Von Emmelman given as "Eric" in this story. The Baron's death date given as May 10, 1917 in this story. Writer credit by Roy Thomas.

The Zurich Flyer (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

Typeset

Gotch and the Big Indian (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Floyd Torbert [as Torb.] (signed)

Inks

Floyd Torbert [as Torb.] (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

sports

Characters

Frank Gotch (wrestler); Motonic (Indian strong man)

Indexer Notes

Signed in first panel left. Torbert is credited to Hillman sports 1949 by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

[Zadlo's Plastic Spray Gun] (Table of Contents: 6)

Swifty Chase / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Prentice

Inks

John Prentice

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

crime

Characters

Swifty Chase; Mr. Brotton; Mr. Madock; Mr. Zadlo (villain)

Indexer Notes

Prentice is credited to "Swifty Chase" by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and he is spotted by his sober faces with tight mouth and long chin, and excellent hands. He is most known for his work on Rip Kirby.