Wings Comics #54

(February 1945)

Fiction House, 1940 Series

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Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
Indicia Frequency: monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Wings Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand: Fiction House Magazines

Editing: Ruth Atkinson (editor); Jack Byrne (managing editor)

Suicide Smith / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Art Saaf
Inks: Art Saaf
Colors: ?

Genre

war; aviation

Reprints

in Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War (Fantagraphics, 2017 series) (2017)

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Captain Wings / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script: ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils: Art Saaf
Inks: Art Saaf
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Squadron, hit the breeze! roared the loudspeaker...instantly...
Genre: war; aviation

Greasemonkey Griffin / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils: Alex Blum
Inks: Alex Blum; ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Hi, good lookin'! Did you get your letter...
Genre: war; humor

Wing Tips / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Ruth Atkinson ?
Inks: Ruth Atkinson ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre: non-fiction; aviation

Indexer Notes

1/3 page occupied by Ownership Statement.

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script: Ruth Atkinson (credited as R. Atkinson)
Letters: typeset

Skull Squad / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Ace Atkins
Pencils: Matt Baker
Inks: Matt Baker; Iger Shop
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Somewhere in England: Th' field's buzzing that something's...
Genre: war; aviation

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: ? [as L. L. Trent]
Letters: typeset

Genre: war

Clipper Kirk / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script: Cliff Dubois (house name)
Pencils: Jack Keller (signed)
Inks: Jack Keller (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: A jap repair base hidden somewhere among a...
Genre: war; aviation

Jane Martin / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: F. E. Lincoln
Pencils: Howard Larsen ?
Inks: Howard Larsen ?; ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Fasten your seat belt, Miss Martin...we're landing...
Genre: war; adventure; crime

Indexer Notes

Awkward-looking Larsen. Inks by ? (Hopper?}.

Wings' Air Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: typeset

Suicide Smith / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: ? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers]
Pencils: Jack Keller
Inks: Jack Keller
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Major Smith, am I glad to see you!
Genre: war; aviation

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

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Statement of Ownership

Series Information

Table of Contents

0. Juggernaughts of Death
Suicide Smith
1. ["Squadron, hit the breeze! roared the loudspeaker...instantly..."]
Captain Wings
2. ["Hi, good lookin'! Did you get your letter..."]
Greasemonkey Griffin
3. The Flying Bomb
Wing Tips
4. [no title indexed]
5. ["Somewhere in England: Th' field's buzzing that something's..."]
Skull Squad
6. The Lost Kingdom
7. ["A jap repair base hidden somewhere among a..."]
Clipper Kirk
8. ["Fasten your seat belt, Miss Martin...we're landing..."]
Jane Martin
9. [no title indexed]
Wings' Air Mail
10. Juggernauts of Death
Suicide Smith

This issue was modified by, among others

Katie
Peter Croome
Michael Hoskin
Mike Nielsen
Patrick Shaughnessy
Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
Jim Van Dore
Len Wolinsky

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