Airboy Comics #v8#9 [92]
(October 1951)

Hillman, 1945 Series
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Volume
8
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Hillman Periodicals Inc.
Brand
A Hillman Publication
Editing
Ed Cronin [as Edward Cronin]

Issue Notes

Copyright 1951 by Hillman Periodicals, Inc.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Airboy / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dan Zolnerowich ?
Inks
Dan Zolnerowich ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Airboy [David Nelson II]; Tundra
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[Tundra's Island In the Sky] (Table of Contents: 1)

Airboy / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ernest Schroeder
Inks
Ernest Schroeder
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
adventure; aviation
Characters
Airboy [David Nelson II]; Tundra (villain)
Reprints

The Hippos of Jewel River (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ed Smalle ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
adventure
Reprints
Keywords
pirate

Cowtown Rookie (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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

Smoke-Busting Sailor (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
Typeset
Reprints

[The Green Peril] (Table of Contents: 5)

The Heap / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ernest Schroeder
Inks
Ernest Schroeder
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman] (origin re-told in brief); Dr. Cosgrove; Mr. Ascot; Mrs. Ascot; un-named Mayor; un-named constable; Graham (villain, Cosgrove's assistant, death); the Green Peril (villain, a plant, death)
Synopsis
Dr. Cosgrove's assistant plants a tendril of the vicious Green Peril plant near the site of von Emmelman's wrecked airplane, and soon it begins to take over the forested area. The Heap, sensing the struggle occuring between the plant and the Wassau Swamp, heads for the area, and battles the plant in efforts to save the life of Cosgrove.
Reprints
Keywords
The Green Peril; Wassau Swamp

Jet Propelled (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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

Indexer Notes

True Story

Rain Cleans the Bases (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
sports
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Airboy
  2. 1. [Tundra's Island In the Sky]
    Airboy
  3. 2. The Hippos of Jewel River
  4. 3. Cowtown Rookie
  5. 4. Smoke-Busting Sailor
  6. 5. [The Green Peril]
    The Heap
  7. 6. Jet Propelled
  8. 7. Rain Cleans the Bases
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  • Craig Delich
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Dan Kocher
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Banks S. Robinson
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