Wings Comics
#116
(1952)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Wings Pub. Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- J. F. Byrne (Mgr. Editor)
Suicide Strike
Captain Wings / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- aviation; war
- Reprints
-
in Wings Comics (Superior, 1952 ? series) #116 ([circa 1952])
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The Rocket's Red Glare
Clipper King / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Clipper King (1st appearance); Pappy
- Synopsis
- Clipper King accidentally sees missiles the Russians were trying to smuggle close to the fleet and steals a B-29 to smoke them out.
- Reprints
in Suicide Strike
Captain Wings / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Innocent!' she screamed. But UN brass knew differently...
- Genre
- aviation; war
- Characters
- Captain Wings; Griper; Olga Teslavich
- Synopsis
- Captain Wings tricks a Russian Spy into escaping and revealing the location of a new Russian rocket.
- Reprints
-
from Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #62 (October 1945) [greatly altered]
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Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
[no title indexed]
Captain Wings / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sometimes it's the dumb, meaningless flights that hit...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Captain Wings; Griper; Smitty
- Synopsis
- Captain Wings takes a photographer up to test a new lens that will work thru fog.
Indexer Notes
Elias artwork from Wings #61 rearranged and revised in "service" of a new script.
Sabres Up!
Captain Wings / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
- Pencils
- Bill Discount [as Dee]
- Inks
- Bill Discount [as Dee]
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Captain Wings; Rip Waldon; Caputo; Billy Main; Colonel Zozlov (Korean pilot); Commander Chan (Korean tank commander)
- Synopsis
- Captain Wings and Billy Main get shot down behind Korean lines and capture a Korean helicopter to return home.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Suicide Strike
Captain Wings -
1.
The Rocket's Red Glare
Clipper King -
2.
Suicide Strike
Captain Wings -
3.
["Sometimes it's the dumb, meaningless flights that hit..."]
Captain Wings -
4.
Sabres Up!
Captain Wings
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Bjorn Wallin
- Jim Walls
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