Wings Comics
#16
(December 1941)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Every month
- On-sale Date
- 1941-10-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Wings Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Malcolm Reiss (editor); Gene Fawcette (art director)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
The Human Torpedo
Suicide Smith / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Suicide Smith streaks down from the stratosphere on a super-bomb to blast Hitler's invincible hell-ship...
- Genre
- war; aviation
- Characters
- Suicide Smith
- Keywords
- battleship; World War II
[no title indexed]
Captain Wings / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- T. E. Bowen (credited as Major T. E. Bowen)
- Pencils
- Dan Zolnerowich
- Inks
- Dan Zolnerowich
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The mad killer, a man of horror, whose...
- Genre
- war; aviation
- Characters
- Captain Wings [Capt. Smith] (introduction, origin); Mickey (introduction); The Mad Killer [Pop Moran] (villain, introduction, death)
[no title indexed]
Jane Martin / comic story / 5.5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At Russian headquarters: The troops at Korv are...
- Genre
- war
Indexer Notes
Not Gabriele's inks.
The Human Torpedo
Suicide Smith / comic story / 7.5 pages
- Script
- A. E. Carruthers (credited as Capt. A. E. Carruthers)
- Pencils
- Joe Doolin
- Inks
- Joe Doolin
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In route from Gibraltar to London, Suicide, Hinda...
- Genre
- aviation; war
- Characters
- Hinda; Chuck Hardy (introduction); Denny O'Toole (introduction); Winston Churchill; Zborov (villain, death?)
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
The Perilous Escape From the Train of Death
The Phantom Falcons / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Kit Gleason]
- Pencils
- Leonard Frank
- Inks
- Leonard Frank
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- war
[Fight for the French Underground]
Skull Squad / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- war; aviation
- Characters
- The Franctireurs (introduction)
[no title indexed]
Clipper Kirk / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Cliff Dubois (house name)
- Pencils
- Frank Schwarz ?; Sam Cooper ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- With England's vital sea lanes gutted by Nazi...
- Genre
- war; aviation
- Characters
- Jean Stark (introduction)
Indexer Notes
Previous credit was for Art Saaf. An interesting if unlikely possibility.
Dead Man's Ferry
John Perry / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- John Perry (introduction)
Indexer Notes
Start of a series of text stories featuring John Perry.
[no title indexed]
The Parachute Patrol / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Casey McKay]
- Pencils
- Richard Case ?
- Inks
- Richard Case ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tommy gets a present from his uncle in...
- Genre
- war
The Wings of an Angel
Captain Derek West / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Captain Derek West]
- Pencils
- Pagsilang Isip ?
- Inks
- Pagsilang Isip ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- war
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Human Torpedo
Suicide Smith -
1.
["The mad killer, a man of horror, whose..."]
Captain Wings -
2.
["At Russian headquarters: The troops at Korv are..."]
Jane Martin -
3.
The Human Torpedo
Suicide Smith -
4.
The Perilous Escape From the Train of Death
The Phantom Falcons -
5.
[Fight for the French Underground]
Skull Squad -
6.
Flying Battleship XB-19
Wing Tips -
7.
["With England's vital sea lanes gutted by Nazi..."]
Clipper Kirk -
8.
Dead Man's Ferry
John Perry -
9.
["Tommy gets a present from his uncle in..."]
The Parachute Patrol -
10.
The Wings of an Angel
Captain Derek West -
11.
["Greasemonkey watches Hugh 'Tex' Baker, American RAF ace..."]
Greasemonkey Griffin
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- Katie
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- Bill Devine
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- Michael Hoskin
- Mitchell Maglio
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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