Airboy Comics #v4#4 [39]

(May 1947)

[Sparkle Shore] (Table of Contents: 1)

Airboy / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Carmine Infantino

Pencils

Fred Kida

Inks

Fred Kida

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Airboy [David Nelson II]; Hank Bates; Rocky Wells; Albert (villain, death); Rita (villain)

Synopsis

Airboy visits an old friend on the diamond coast of Africa, a place where diamonds are so plentiful that they can be scooped up off the beach.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #83 ([October] 2010)

Keywords

Birdie

Indexer Notes

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009; Art credits by Bill Black, added by Craig Delich 2011-4-20.

[The Music of Paul Lustig] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Heap / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Art Peddy (signed as Peddy)

Inks

Bernard Sachs (signed as Sachs)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Rickie Wood; Winnie (Rickie's friend); Paul Lustig (villain, singer, death)

Synopsis

Young Paul Lustig has a medodious/hypnotic voice, unlike any other, and he sets out to attain fame.....and especially fortune......any way he can! As it turns out, and after obtaining the wealth he so desired, Paul Lustig talks his way into owning half the hometown of Rickie Wood. Winnie applies for the job as his secretary and when Paul sings the music from the music to a German opera in her hands, the music draws the Heap out of hiding, and the beast kills him!

Reprints

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

Keywords

Lawndale

Indexer Notes

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

[The Salem Witches] (Table of Contents: 3)

Rackman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Carmine Infantino

Inks

Bernard Sachs

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Rackman [Craig Mansfield]; Ellis White (Vice President of the Mansfield Industrial Empire); Judy (worker at Mansfield Industrial); Mr. Cartwright (of International Copper); John Mansfield (President of Mansfield Industrial Empire); Mrs. Mansfield; Carrie Hamilton (villain, witchcraft practitioner, death); Elizabeth Hamilton (villain, witchcraft practitioner, death)

Synopsis

Mr. White returns from vacation to meet with the head of International Copper, who desires to borrow $100,000 from the firm. The weird thing is that Mr. White is acting like a mere child and OKs the loan without the approval of Mr. Mansfield. Craig Mansfield, suspecting something is wrong with White, plays along to gather information while his father leaves the family island to investigate Craig's seemingly odd behavior and Hamilton Manor where White vacationed.

Keywords

Hamilton Manor; Mansfield Island

Indexer Notes

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

Art credits revised as shown from reverse credits originally listed.

Rackman is a dwarf who uses telescopic stilts of his own devising.In fact, his whole family are dwarfs and use said stilts in order to appear of normal size.

[This is my model workbench...] (Table of Contents: 4)

Model Builders With Airboy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Art Peddy

Inks

Art Peddy

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Airboy [David Nelson II]

Indexer Notes

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

Bad Man (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Claude Dunnagan

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Information for this sequence from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

[The Dead Man Who Wasn't] (Table of Contents: 6)

Johnny Halfbuck / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bernard Sachs (signed as B. Sachs)

Inks

Bernard Sachs (signed as B. Sachs)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Indexer Notes

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.