Airboy Comics #v6#8 [67]

(September 1949)

Planet over California (Table of Contents)

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)

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.

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).

Casey Jones (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

The Avenger (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

The Saginaw Story (Table of Contents)

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).

["Now Tom, this is your first time out on a duck hunt..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Script:

Jules Steiner

Pencils:

Jules Steiner

Inks:

Jules Steiner

Colors:

Jules Steiner

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Oliver Wiggins (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

True story