Airboy Comics #v3#11 [34]

(December 1946)

The Easter Egg (Table of Contents: 1)

Airboy / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script:

Dick Wood

Pencils:

Dan Barry ?

Inks:

Dan Barry ?

Colors:

Dick Wood

Letters:

?

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Airboy [David Nelson II]; Bonnie Easter (introduction)

[Pursuit of the Plane] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Heap / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script:

Bill Woolfolk ?; Patricia Highsmith ?

Pencils:

Arthur F. Peddy ?

Inks:

Bernard Sachs ?

Colors:

Bill Woolfolk ?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters:

The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Rickie Wood

Synopsis:

Rickie gets a telegram informing him that his German model plane's blueprints have been accepted by the National Model HQ, and he is invited to enter their contest. The Heap, still infatuated by that model, watches as Rickie leaves on a train bound for New York with the model, and follows him to the Big Apple. Police bring the creature down and they attempt to chop him up with axes, but the beast arises and escapes.

Reprints:

• in Roy Thomas Presents The Heap (PS, 2012 series) #1 (November 2012)

Indexer Notes

Highsmith's habit of referring to a World War as "World War #1" or "World War #2" is used in this story, which raises suspicions she could have written it.

[The Happy Hunting Ground Undertaking Parlor] (Table of Contents: 3)

Skinny McGinty / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Tony DiPreta

Inks:

Tony DiPreta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Alfie and Ralphie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Art Helfant

Pencils:

Art Helfant

Inks:

Art Helfant

Colors:

?

Letters:

Art Helfant

First Line of Dialogue or Text:

Look - Ralphie! I found a nickel!

Genre:

humor

[The Timberland Arson Racket] (Table of Contents: 5)

Flying Fool / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Giacoia

Inks:

Frank Giacoia

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

The Captain's Curse (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Alfie and Ralphie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Art Helfant

Pencils:

Art Helfant

Inks:

Art Helfant

Colors:

?

Letters:

Art Helfant

First Line of Dialogue or Text:

Ralphie, it's a post-card from Phil...

Genre:

humor

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

Baron Buckskin / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Art Helfant

Pencils:

Art Helfant

Inks:

Art Helfant

Colors:

?

Letters:

Art Helfant

First Line of Dialogue or Text:

The tie, Baron!

Genre:

humor

[The Submarine Crooks] (Table of Contents: 9)

Iron Ace / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Maurice Whitman ?

Inks:

Ezra Jackson ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

war

Characters:

Iron Ace [Captain Robert Britain]