Issue | #1 |
Published | July 1944 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Flying Tigers bombing Japanese airfield. |
Genre | war |
Pencils | L. B. Cole |
Inks | L. B. Cole |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Flying Tigers bombing Japanese airfield. |
Characters | Sgt. J. Jones |
Synopsis | True story of J. Jones luck after being thrown out of a B-17. |
Genre | war; fact |
Pencils | L. B. Cole (signed) |
Inks | L. B. Cole (signed) |
Notes | Found on the inside front cover. |
Characters | Golden Eagle (Dennis Quinn) |
Synopsis | The Golden Eagle was one of the most brilliant pilots in World War I--his picture hangs in many an air force briefing room..... |
Genre | adventure |
Pencils | Gil Kane [as Katz] (signed); Carmine Infantino [as Infantino] (signed) |
Inks | Gil Kane [as Katz] (signed); Carmine Infantino [as Infantino] (signed) |
Notes | Pencil credits added by Craig Delich 2010-7-18. |
Synopsis | This is the story of the first allied pioneer airmen, to Norman Prince of Massachusetts goes the distinction of organizing the American Escadrille #124 later known as the Lafayette Escadrille. |
Genre | war; aviation |
Pencils | Tom Van Buren (signed) |
Inks | Tom Van Buren (signed) |
Characters | Flamingo (Moore Williams) |
Synopsis | Out of the mystery of India came the terror that numbed men's minds as a man dead for two thousand years arose from his tomb to walk again and Falmingo, long used to battling the weird and monsterous, had his reason for tottering before the menance. |
Genre | superhero |
Synopsis | Comprised of centerfold pages of drawings of various warplanes from WWII. |
Genre | war; aviation |
Synopsis | The story of the United States Air Mail. |
Genre | war; aviation |
Pencils | Louis Ferstadt [as Ferstadt] (signed) |
Inks | Louis Ferstadt [as Ferstadt] (signed) |
Genre | war |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Black Venus (Mary Roche, Burma U.S.O. hostess); the Japanese (villains, some die) |
Synopsis | Black Venus discovers that the Japanese have built a catapault drome, which allows them to quickly engage American fliers by surprise! |
Genre | superhero; aviation |
Pencils | Charles Tomsey [as Tomsey] (signed) |
Inks | Charles Tomsey [as Tomsey] (signed) |
Reprinted | in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #82 (2010) |
Synopsis | Our story opens one day in 1941 when a young naval pilot on carrier duty reported to his commanding officer. |
Genre | war; aviation |
Pencils | Ebbins ? [as Snibbe] (signed) |
Inks | Ebbins ? [as Snibbe] (signed) |
Notes | Snibbe MAY be the name of an artist named Ebbins, who worked in the Ferstadt studio. This information added by Craig Delich 2010-7-18. |
Genre | war; aviation |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Tommy Tomahawk; Red Wing |
Synopsis | Thrill to the triumphant Indian war cry "Cherokee-e-e" as the redskin warriors of the air, led by Tommy Tomahawk and his young pal Red Wing strike terror into the hearts of the Japs. |
Genre | war; aviation |
Pencils | George Appel [as Geo. H. Appel] (signed) |
Inks | George Appel [as Geo. H. Appel] (signed) |
Synopsis | Advertisement for X-Acto knives. |
Notes | Found on the inside back cover. |
Synopsis | Advertisement for the book, "Wonders of Living Things". |
Genre | fact |
Notes | Found on the back cover. |