Wings Comics
#8
(April 1941)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Every month
- On-sale Date
- 1941-02-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Wings Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- Malcolm Reiss (editor); Gene Fawcette (art director)
Issue Notes
Interesting issue: Gene Fawcette takes over as Art Director and the "authors" on half the strips change: Parachute Patrol now by "Casey McKay" instead of "Pat Powers," etc. And many new artists show up. Appears as if Fiction House is bringing production in house.
The Wings of Doom
Skull Squad / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The first giant four-motored flying fortresses have...
- Genre
- aviation; war
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
[no title indexed]
Parachute Patrol / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Far from the furnaces of the great mill...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- V: Karl and other spies (I for all); I: Col. Howard
[no title indexed]
Jane Martin / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A delirious British aviator drags himself to the...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- V: Heinrich and another Nazi (I for both); I: Three gunners
Indexer Notes
Female faces resemble Al Gabrielle, but others seem more like Alex Raymond swipes or Al Bryant. Definitely done by diverse hands. HW suggests some Vern Henkel.
[no title indexed]
The Phantom Falcons / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ? [as Kit Gleason]
- Pencils
- Leonard Frank
- Inks
- Leonard Frank
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Taking advantage of Italian reverses in Greece, the...
- Genre
- war
Spy Hawk
Captain Derek West / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Derek West (credited as Captain Derek West)
- Pencils
- Frank Schwarz ?
- Inks
- Frank Schwarz ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Tim Cassidy
Indexer Notes
Capt. Derek West is a fictional author. Art on final two pages also resembles an artist named Jay.
[no title indexed]
Suicide Smith / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All is quiet, or so it seems... At the...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- GS: The Haywire Squadron; I: Cmdr. Cawthorne
Indexer Notes
Reminiscent in places of Gabrielle and Jenney and ?
[no title indexed]
F4 of the Air Intelligence / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- F-4, America's daring secret agent, steps from a...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- I: J-9; V: A Japanese spy ring (I)
Indexer Notes
Resembles very much an artist who signs "Jay" in the late 1940s.
[no title indexed]
Clipper Kirk / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Clipper Kirk is with an RAF squadron somewhere...
- Genre
- war; aviation
- Characters
- V: Teddy Watson (I)
[no title indexed]
Greasemonkey Griffin / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Jay Ryder]
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C'mon, Grif. Wrap yourself in a parachute. I'm...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- I: Ace Hawks
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Wings of Doom
Skull Squad -
1.
[no title indexed]
Wings' Air Mail -
2.
The Wings of Doom
Skull Squad -
3.
["Far from the furnaces of the great mill..."]
Parachute Patrol -
4.
["A delirious British aviator drags himself to the..."]
Jane Martin -
5.
["Taking advantage of Italian reverses in Greece, the..."]
The Phantom Falcons -
6.
Spy Hawk
Captain Derek West -
7.
Scouts of the Sea
Wing Tips -
8.
The Man Who Turned Tail
-
9.
Subterranean Airdrome
-
10.
["All is quiet, or so it seems... At the..."]
Suicide Smith -
11.
["F-4, America's daring secret agent, steps from a..."]
F4 of the Air Intelligence -
12.
["Clipper Kirk is with an RAF squadron somewhere..."]
Clipper Kirk -
13.
["C'mon, Grif. Wrap yourself in a parachute. I'm..."]
Greasemonkey Griffin
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Glenn MacKay
- Mike Nielsen
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Jim Van Dore
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