Captain Flight Comics #5

(December 1944)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Flight / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Stevens (byline)

Pencils

Frank Stevens

Inks

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Far above the famous black forests, Captain Flight innocently gets wedged in cross-fire...

Genre

aviation; war

Characters

Captain Flight; Jerry McGuire (pilot); Parker (pilot); Dale (pilot)

Synopsis

Captain Flight has an emergency landing on a hidden runway inside a mountain, hiding a secret plane factory.

Indexer Notes

The stories with the byline Frank Stevens vary in artwork in this comic book, so it has to be several artists at work. Compare artwork with Fiction House Fight #31.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Plug McTee / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Schwab (as Fist E. Cuffs) (signed)

Pencils

Fred Schwab (as Fist E. Cuffs) (signed)

Inks

Fred Schwab (as Fist E. Cuffs) (signed)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Are youse de Plug McTee outfit?

Genre

humor; sports

Characters

Plug McTee (boxer); Manager

Synopsis

McTee's manager gets ten grand for quitting the boxing racket.

Reprints

• in The Flame (Farrell, 1954 series) #3 (May 1955)

Indexer Notes

Jerry Bails' Who's Who has Fist E. Cuffs as a pen name for Schwab.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Secret Agent 2B-3 / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Jordan (signed)

Inks

John Jordan (signed)

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Yes, Sir, I am Jim Carson. What can I do for you?

Genre

spy

Characters

Secret Agent 2B-3; Jim Carson

Synopsis

A man is offering Agent 2B-3 one million dollars for a new fighting aircraft.

The Protection Slip Racket (Table of Contents: 4)

Red Rocket / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Gus Schrotter ?

Inks

?

Colors

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Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Red Rocket [Rod Page] (first appearance); Punchy; Mrs. Namreh

Synopsis

Red finds a glove in the hand of a storekeeper murdered by racketeers.

Indexer Notes

See 2nd Captain Flight story in issue 4.

Cremation (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Joe Cleary

Pencils

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Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Cornelius Tanner; Mrs. Cornelius Tanner; Undertaker

Synopsis

A wife gets more than she bargained for after attempting to poison her husband and have him cremated.

Blazing Skies (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

T. Shelton

Letters

typeset

Genre

war

Characters

Joan Ashley (WAC); Major Clark

Synopsis

Japanese air raids on an American held island .

[Wilted Flower] (Table of Contents: 7)

Bonzo the Great / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

W. C. Shields (byline)

Pencils

W. C. Shields (byline)

Inks

W. C. Shields (byline)

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

humor

Characters

Bonzo

Synopsis

Bonzo brings his wilted flower to a man playing the clarinet. Saliva from the clarinet refreshes the flower.

The Case of the Limping Nazi (Table of Contents: 8)

Grenade / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Boynansky (signed)

Pencils

Bill Boynansky (signed)

Inks

Bill Boynansky (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Grenade [Bruce Corbett] (first appearance; only appearance); Danny Corbett; The Fat-Man (Nazi); Zongo (half man-half beast); Pumpernickle

Synopsis

Bruce Corbett's brother is killed by a beast controlled by a Nazi gang.

Flight Fun (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Lyne (byline)

Pencils

Lyne (byline)

Inks

Lyne (byline)

Colors

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Letters

?

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Rock Raymond / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Henry Kiefer (credited as Trace R. Bullet)

Inks

Henry Kiefer (credited as Trace R. Bullet)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Send word to the Governor of the sixteenth satelite, that we arrive today!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Rock Raymond; King Satius (Saturnian ruler); Dr. Stelli; King Morono (Plutonian ruler)

Synopsis

The king of Saturn has been kidnapped by the Plutonian idiots.

Reprints

• in Rocketman (Farrell, 1952 series) #1 (June 1952) [feature changed]

Indexer Notes

The word "satellite" is spelled incorrectly in the story.
The faces give away Kiefer as the artist.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Ferdie and his Friends / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Gosh (byline)

Pencils

Gosh (byline)

Inks

Gosh (byline)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Well, Blimp, here we are...

Genre

teen

Characters

Ferdie; Blimp; Gert

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Deep-Sea Dawson / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Gordon Fisher (byline)

Pencils

Gordon Fisher

Inks

?

Colors

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One thousand feet below the heaving sea into the fathomless pit of mystery

Genre

adventure

Characters

Dawson; Queen of the Weed People

Synopsis

A creature with clammy green fingers pulls ships under the sea and Dawson is sent to investigate.