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American Air Forces (1944) comic books 1950-1959

  • Issue #5
    American Air Forces (1944) 5

    (A-1 Comics #45) Cover by Bob Powell. Art by Bob Powell. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #45. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured aviation adventure from the Korean War, a continuation of the American Air Forces title. The debut of action pilots Mike Battles and Captain Jet Powers (no relation to the sci-fi character); Inside the military cargo plane the C-119; A profile of James Jabara, the first jet ace in history, meaning multiple victories with the then-new jet aircraft. Captain Jet Powers; The Flying Boxcar; Navy Flyer Rocky Beach; The First Jet Ace: Captain James Jabara; Mike Battles. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    American Air Forces (1944) 6

    (A-1 Comics #54) Cover by Bob Powell. Art by Bob Powell. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #54. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured aviation adventure from the Korean War. Mike Battles is assigned to retrieve a colonel's daughter from behind enemy lines, and she turns out to be a beautiful intelligence agent; Nonfiction pieces about aircraft carriers and US air defense; A feature on guided missiles includes speculations on future use of remote technology, including space exploration. Captain Jet Powers; The Air Defense of the U.S.A.; Guided Missiles; The Aircraft Carrier; Rocky Beach; Mike Battles. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #8
    American Air Forces (1944) 8
    • Staple rust.

    (A-1 Comics #65) In the feature story: Dead men lay sprawled at her guns. Dead men's hands gripped the controls. The old B-17 was useless, finished, and the fate of the United Nations in Korea depended on her reaching her target and dropping her "EGGS"! But dead men cannot bomb a target, and this was "The Burma Gal's Last Flight!" Also in this issue: "The Devil in the Drink!" (art by Bob Powell), "The Secret of the Tunnel" (art by Frank Bolle), "Secret of the Tunnel" (art by Powell), and "Death Without Orders!" (art by Powell). Powell cover. Cover price $0.10.

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  • Issue #9
    American Air Forces (1944) 9

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    (A-1 Comics #67) Cover by Bob Powell. Art by Bob Powell. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #69. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured aviation adventure from the Korean War. Airman Rocky Beach meets a beautiful Soviet aviator who's a better pilot than he is; A nonfiction piece about the role of air ace John Lucian Smith during the Battle of Guadalcanal; Pilot Mike Battles is not happy to transport an all-female band of musicians, and unhappier still when one of them hijacks the plane. Captain Jet Powers; Ace in the Hole; Column in the Sky; Rocky Beach; Mike Battles. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    American Air Forces (1944) 10
    • Water damage.

    Cover by Bob Powell. Art by Bob Powell and Al Plastino. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #74. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured aviation adventure from the Korean War. The story of WWII aircraft carrier The Hornet; A nonfiction piece about the history of flight goes from Daedalus to the first hot-air balloon; A story about the use of television in warfare correctly predicts drone strikes, fifty years early. Mike Battles; Man Against the Sky!, Chapter 1; The Blue Ghost; Rocky Beach; Video Raiders. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    American Air Forces (1944) 11

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    Cover by Bob Powell. Art by Bob Powell. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #79. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured aviation adventure from the Korean War. The story of zeppelin attacks on London during World War I; A nonfiction piece about the history of flight covers the early years of lighter-than-air craft. Also featuring unusual ads for Hitler stamps left over from WWII Europe; Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis hand puppets; and live baby turtles (!). Action-packed Mike Battles cover by Bob Powell departs from the usual planes-in-flight approach. Mike Battles; Man Against the Sky!, Chapter 2; The Terror of the Big Cigars!; Rocky Beach; The Retread; Life Preserver. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    American Air Forces (1944) 12

    Cover by Bob Powell. Art by Bob Powell. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #91. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured aviation adventure from the Korean War. Rocky Beach undertakes a dangerous mission behind enemy lines in Korea; A nonfiction piece about the history of flight covers the early experiments that led to the first working airplane; A pilot gets caught up in the first war for French Indochina, known in modern times as Vietnam. Mike Battles; Man Against the Sky!, Chapter 3; Jet Powers; Rocky Beach; The Dirty War! Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.