Wings Comics
#69
(May 1946)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1946-03-19
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Wings Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
[no title indexed]
Captain Wings / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tiger, tiger, skulking the Burma bush...but the...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Lal Singh (villain, introduction, death); King Phaya; Princess Aubiliala (introduction); Jakuh (introduction)
Indexer Notes
HS notes different inks than previous episodes that were signed by Elias.
[no title indexed]
Jane Martin / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The stakes were high when two Mexican airlines...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Darango (introduction, villain); Jose Progreso (introduction); Jose Progreso's son (introduction); Jane Martin
[no title indexed]
Greasemonkey Griffin / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oboy! If the army wuz like this, I'd...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dr. Phineas A. G. Applebottom (introduction, villain); Maisie (introduction); Greasemonkey Griffin
Corsair of the Monsoon Skies
Suicide Smith / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers]
- Pencils
- Alvin Hollingsworth (signed)
- Inks
- Alvin Hollingsworth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- La Prensa. air minister Fuente out as bribe...
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Don Fuente (villain, introduction, death); Dale Johnson; Mr. Johnson
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
Who Is the Phantom Falcon? [part 2]
The Phantom Falcon / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- spy
- Characters
- The Phantom Falcon [Clipper Kirk] (cont'd from story in #68, introduction, origin); K7 (villain, introduction); Anton (villain, introduction, death); other enemy agents (villain, introduction)
[no title indexed]
Wing Tips / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So you think you know aviation, eh? This...
- Genre
- non-fiction; aviation
- Synopsis
- Aviation quiz.
Sky-Duel of the Near-Dead
Ghost Patrol / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Ghost Patrol; Lt. Tom Briggs (introduction, temporarily death); Capt. Von Heill (villain, introduction, death); Death
- Reprints
-
in Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #113 (Winter 1951) [abridged from nine pages to six]
-
Indexer Notes
HS points out in a lengthly digression how he once mistook this for Rafael Astarita, but now sees it more objectively.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Corsair of the Monsoon Skies
Suicide Smith -
1.
["Tiger, tiger, skulking the Burma bush...but the..."]
Captain Wings -
2.
["The stakes were high when two Mexican airlines..."]
Jane Martin -
3.
Wings' Air Mail
Wings' Air Mail -
4.
["Oboy! If the army wuz like this, I'd..."]
Greasemonkey Griffin -
5.
Corsair of the Monsoon Skies
Suicide Smith -
6.
The Emperor of Tomorrow
-
7.
Who Is the Phantom Falcon? [part 2]
The Phantom Falcon -
8.
["So you think you know aviation, eh? This..."]
Wing Tips -
9.
Sky-Duel of the Near-Dead
Ghost Patrol
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
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