Airboy Comics
#v6#8 [67]
(September 1949)
Hillman,
1945 Series
- 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
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.
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Planet over California
Airboy / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Airboy [David Nelson II]; Tex Calhoun
[Appointment at Wasau]
The Heap / comic story / 8 pages
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Roy Thomas Presents The Heap (PS, 2012 series) #2 (January 2013)
-
- 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).
The Saginaw Story
comic story / 5 pages
- 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]
Happy Hunting / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now Tom, this is your first time out on a duck hunt...
- Genre
- humor
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["As Airboy opens the throttle, a tremendous jet of flame hurtles the great rocket off into space..."]
Airboy -
1.
Planet over California
Airboy -
2.
[Appointment at Wasau]
The Heap -
3.
Casey Jones
-
4.
The Avenger
-
5.
The Saginaw Story
-
6.
["Now Tom, this is your first time out on a duck hunt..."]
Happy Hunting -
7.
Oliver Wiggins
-
8.
[no title indexed]
Actors In Sports -
9.
Civil War Air Ace
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- Tony R. Rose
- Bill Devine
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Craig Delich
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Michael Hoskin
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