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Wings Comics (1940) comic books 1940

  • Issue #1
    Wings Comics (1940) 1
    • Paper: White
    • Label #0078149020
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #1476003005
    • INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages and pieces missing. Affects Clipper Kirk, How Uncle Sam Trains His Warbirds, The Phantom Falcons, Wing Tips, The Hardluck Ace, and Powder Burns stories. 3.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Water damage.
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Color touch, piece fill, TRIMMED. Full length spine split (taped), cover taped to first wrap along spine, heavy tape on interior cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Edited by Malcolm Reiss, Jerry Iger and Will Eisner. Stories and art by Arthur Peddy, Witmer Williams, Charles Sultan, Klaus Nordling, Gene Fawcette, and George Tuska. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Action nurse Jane Martin puts the "combat" in "combat medicine"; The Phantom Falcons - Tom, Akeley, Dale, Jerry, and Parker - fight the Luftwaffe from their underground base in Switzerland; Greasemonkey Griffin is a military air mechanic whose life is a comedy of errors. Skull Squad; Parachute Patrol; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; F4 of the Air Intelligence; Suicide Smith; How Uncle Sam Trains His Warbirds; The Phantom Falcons; Wing Tips; The Hardluck Ace; Greasemonkey Griffin; Powder Burns. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #3
    Wings Comics (1940) 3
    • INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing and multiple pieces of pages missing, interrupts art and story. Full length spine split.

    Cover by Gene Fawcette. Edited by Malcolm Reiss, Jerry Iger and Will Eisner. Stories and art by Arthur Peddy, Witmer Williams, Henry Kiefer, Klaus Nordling, Gene Fawcette, George Tuska, Charles Sultan, Leonard Frank, and Alex Blum. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Nurse Jane Martin hijacks a boat to help refugees escape from Nazi-occupied France; Suicide Smith uses his plane to ram a bomber and almost lives up to his name; A prescient story speculating on the future use of helicopters in warfare. Skull Squad; Parachute Patrol; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; F4 of the Air Intelligence; Suicide Smith; How Uncle Sam Trains His Warbirds; The Phantom Falcons; Wing Tips; Double or Nothing; What of the Helicopter?; Powder Burns. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.