Air Fighters Comics #v1#2 [2]

(November 1942)

[The Origin of Airboy] (Table of Contents: 1)

Airboy / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Charles Biro; Dick Wood

Pencils

Al Camy

Inks

Al Camy

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

When our fighting men meet death at sea...

Genre

adventure; aviation; war

Characters

Airboy [David Nelson II] (origin) (introduction); Birdie (origin); Brother Francis Martier (introduction, death); monk of Capistrano [Cartwell] (introduction); Amelia Earhart; Billy Mitchell; Wiley Post; Wilbur Wright; Orville Wright; Colin P. Kelly; Lt. Black (death); Kress Sessler (introduction, death); Mr. Johnson (introduction); Hirote [Hirota] (villain, introduction)

Reprints

• in Comic Reprints (Nostalgia, Inc. [Don Maris Comics], 1973 series) #[1] (1973)
• in Air Fighters Classics (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1 (November 1987)

Indexer Notes

Storyline is continued in the next issue.

[The Coming of Sky Wolf] (Table of Contents: 2)

Sky Wolf [SkyWolf / Skywolf] / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Harry Stein

Pencils

Mort Leav

Inks

Mort Leav

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

When the Nazi ace, Half-Man, and Goro....

Genre

adventure; aviation; war

Characters

Joseph Goebbels (villain); Hermann Goering (villain); Heinrich Himmler (villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); Sky Wolf [Larry Wolfe] (introduction); Cocky Roche (introduction); Turtle (introduction); Judge (introduction); Goro (introduction); Frisco (seeming villain, introduction); Baron Von Tundra (villain, introduction)

Reprints

• in Comic Reprints (Nostalgia, Inc. [Don Maris Comics], 1973 series) #[1] (1973)
• in Air Fighters Classics (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1 (November 1987)

[The Origin of the Iron Ace] (Table of Contents: 3)

Iron Ace / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Fred Kida

Inks

Fred Kida

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Centuries ago on a bloody battlefield of France...

Genre

adventure; aviation; war

Characters

Iron Ace [Captain Ronald Britain] (origin) (introduction); un-named French resistance members; Doctor Lafarge (introduction, death); The Nazis (villains)

Reprints

• in Comic Reprints (Nostalgia, Inc. [Don Maris Comics], 1973 series) #[1] (1973)
• in Air Fighters Classics (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1 (November 1987)

Fire Over Benghazi (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Nathaniel Nitkin (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure; aviation; war

Reprints

• in Air Fighters Classics (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1 (November 1987)

[The Baroness Blood] (Table of Contents: 5)

The Black Angel / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Cassone

Inks

John Cassone

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Black Angel vs. that Nazi Cobra of the Skies, the Baroness Blood...

Genre

adventure; aviation; war

Characters

The Black Angel [Sylvia Manners] (introduction); Lady Lawton (introduction, Sylvia's Aunt); French freedom fighter (death); Baroness Blood (villain, introduction); The Nazis (villains, some die)

Synopsis

After saving the Wembley Airplane Factory from Nazi attack, the Black Angel overhears some Nazi agents aboard a train tell about a raid on an Allied Convoy #607 by a secret Nazi submarine base. Unknown to the Angel, Baroness von Blood is behind the plan of attack.

Reprints

• in Comic Reprints (Nostalgia, Inc. [Don Maris Comics], 1973 series) #[1] (1973)
• in Air Fighters Classics (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1 (November 1987)
• in Hero (Avalon Communications, 2001 series) #1 ([May 23] 2001)

Keywords

Wembley Airplane Factory

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Wun Wing Spin / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Jaffee (signed as AJ) (signature found on the lower left panel on page two)

Inks

Al Jaffee (signed as AJ) (signature found on the lower left panel on page two)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Our story finds a strange little scientist at work...

Genre

humor; aviation

Reprints

• in Air Fighters Classics (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1 (November 1987)

Keywords

racial stereotype

The Lifeless Invaders! (Table of Contents: 7)

Bald Eagle / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harry Sahle (signed as Sahle)

Inks

Harry Sahle (signed as Sahle)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Out of the embattled Pacific swoops a cunning foe...

Genre

adventure; aviation; war

Characters

Bald Eagle [Jack Gatling] (introduction); Japanese Army [General Kari (death)]

Reprints

• in Comic Reprints (Nostalgia, Inc. [Don Maris Comics], 1973 series) #[1] (1973)
• in Air Fighters Classics (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1 (November 1987)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Henry Morgenthau Jr. (signed as Henry Morgenthau Jr) (credited as Henry Morgenthau, Jr.)

Pencils

? (illustration)

Inks

? (illustration)

Letters

?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A special message to the boys and girls of America from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury

Genre

advocacy

Synopsis

The publishers donated this space, on behalf of the U.S. Savings Bonds and War Stamps campaign, to published a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., encouraging the boys and girls of America to buy at least one 10 cent Savings Stamp each week to help the war effort.

[The Coming of the Dutchman] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Fujitani (signed as Bob Fuje)

Inks

Bob Fujitani (signed as Bob Fuje)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

An ace of Holland, a country over-run by Nazi vultures...

Genre

adventure; aviation; war

Characters

Flying Dutchman [Jan] (introduction); Nazis [Colonel Voss (introduction)]; Dutch patriots [Helga Maanen (introduction)]

Reprints

• in Comic Reprints (Nostalgia, Inc. [Don Maris Comics], 1973 series) #[1] (1973)
• in Air Fighters Classics (Eclipse, 1987 series) #1 (November 1987)