Airboy Comics #v6#8 [67]
(September 1949)

Hillman, 1945 Series
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Volume
6
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
?
On-sale date
1949-07-06
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
Brand
A Hillman Publication
Editing
Ed Cronin
Color
Color
Dimensions
Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock
glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format
Was Ongoing Series

Issue Notes

On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1949, page 153, registration number B199561.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Airboy / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dan Zolnerowich
Inks
Dan Zolnerowich
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
As Airboy opens the throttle, a tremendous jet of flame hurtles the great rocket off into space...
Genre
adventure; aviation
Keywords
rockets
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Planet over California (Table of Contents: 1)

Airboy / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ernest Schroeder
Inks
Ernest Schroeder
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Airboy [David Nelson II]; Tex Calhoun

[Appointment at Wasau] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Leonard Starr ?; Frank Bolle ?
Inks
Leonard Starr ?; Frank Bolle ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman] (origin in flashback); Mother Nature; von Emmelman (introduction, Wasau postmaster); Death [aka The Huntsman of the Black Angel] (introduction, once posed as a military dispatch officer in WW1, death)
Synopsis
A stranger called Death comes to the town of Wasau looking for von Emmelman, and he confuses the local postmaster for the von Emmelman of World War I. No matter, for Death plans to follow through and kill the man he wanted to kill 30 years earlier. Then The Heap appears just before the telling blow and Death senses that the muck monster is the one he seeks.
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Keywords
biplanes; Imperial German Air Troops; Wasau; World War I

Indexer Notes

Original pencils credit to Ernest Schroeder changed to "?" by Craig Delich 2013-4-27, based Roy Thomas's assertion that Schroeder did not draw the Heap until issue #70.
Pencils and inks credit from Hames Ware via a private e-mail to Roy Thomas (22 March 2013).

Casey Jones (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

The Avenger (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
Typeset

The Saginaw Story (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Ed Silverman
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
sports
Characters
John L. Sullivan (championship boxer); Big Mac

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from Ed Silverman interview in Alter Ego magazine #120 (TwoMorrows, September 2013).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Happy Hunting / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jules Steiner
Pencils
Jules Steiner
Inks
Jules Steiner
Colors
Jules Steiner
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Now Tom, this is your first time out on a duck hunt...
Genre
humor

Oliver Wiggins (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier

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

Actors In Sports / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
non-fiction; sports
Characters
W.C. Fields

Civil War Air Ace (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
non-fiction

Indexer Notes

True story

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["As Airboy opens the throttle, a tremendous jet of flame hurtles the great rocket off into space..."]
    Airboy
  2. 1. Planet over California
    Airboy
  3. 2. [Appointment at Wasau]
    The Heap
  4. 3. Casey Jones
  5. 4. The Avenger
  6. 5. The Saginaw Story
  7. 6. ["Now Tom, this is your first time out on a duck hunt..."]
    Happy Hunting
  8. 7. Oliver Wiggins
  9. 8. [no title indexed]
    Actors In Sports
  10. 9. Civil War Air Ace
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