Airboy Comics
#v3#9 [32]
(October 1946)
Hillman,
1945 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1946-08-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Hillman Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
A Hillman Publication
- Editing
- Ed Cronin
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.
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[Gil Parker, Phony Ace]
Airboy / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- aviation; war
- Characters
- Airboy [David Nelson II]; Gil Parker
- Keywords
- Birdie
[Enter: Rickie Wood]
The Heap / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bill Woolfolk ?
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino ?
- Inks
- Carmine Infantino ? ; Frank Giacoia ?
- Colors
- Bill Woolfolk?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman] (also flashback with origin recap); Rickie Wood (introduction); Mr. Wood (Rickie's father); Kelly (Policeman)
- Synopsis
- The Heap's origin is briefly retold and he meets Rickie Wood for the first time when the lad's errant, motorized German airplane is caught by the Heap in the woods. The two then become almost inseparable because of the German airplane.
- Reprints
-
in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #7 (1998) [reprint title: "Our strange tale here begins during World War I..."] -
in Roy Thomas Presents The Heap (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (November 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
5th appearance of the Heap, 1st actual Heap story in his own strip.
Inks here look more like Giacoia than Infantino.
[no title indexed]
Little Leo / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah! It's finished!
- Genre
- humor; children
[Attack of the Army Ants]
Flying Dutchman / comic story / 8 pages
Indexer Notes
Last Flying Dutchman story
[no title indexed]
Windy and Tug / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Awk! ...Where are you taking me, Windy!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
Alfie and Ralphie / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Y'know Ralphie, some people take all kinds of dangerous chances...
- Genre
- humor
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Airboy -
1.
[Gil Parker, Phony Ace]
Airboy -
2.
Advice for Sale
Skinny McGinty -
3.
[Enter: Rickie Wood]
The Heap -
4.
Sealed in Lead
-
5.
["Ah! It's finished!"]
Little Leo -
6.
[Attack of the Army Ants]
Flying Dutchman -
7.
["Awk! ...Where are you taking me, Windy!"]
Windy and Tug -
8.
["Y'know Ralphie, some people take all kinds of dangerous chances..."]
Alfie and Ralphie -
9.
[The "Grandma" of Smuggling]
SkyWolf -
10.
["Look, Ralphie! Food!!"]
Alfie and Ralphie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Jim Van Dore
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