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Issue Details

Issue	#50
Published	October 1944
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	52
Editing	John F. Byrne (Managing Editor); Ruth Atkinson (Editor)
Notes	All info [except feature] added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue revised/updated 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

Cover Details - "Mission for a Madman"

Genre	war
Pencils	Art Saaf (signed)
Inks	Art Saaf (signed)
Notes	All info [except feature] added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue revised/updated 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Why Guess? Get the Best!"

Synopsis	House ad for Fiction House comics.
Pencils	various
Inks	various
Notes	Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

10 page Captain Wings story Mission For a Madman ["This is the story of two of the..."]

Genre	war
Script	? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils	Art Saaf
Inks	Art Saaf
Notes	Genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Story title taken from cover.

8 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "It started on a raid over Germany, in..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils	Alex Blum
Inks	Alex Blum; ?
Notes	Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

8 page Suicide Smith and the Air Commanders story "Interesting country, this India, major. Where are we bound..."

Genre	war
Script	Capt. A. E. Carruthers (signed)
Pencils	Murphy Anderson (signed)
Inks	Murphy Anderson (signed)
Notes	Story title, genre, writer credit and art verification added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Skull Squad story "Well, looka here! We've got us a new..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils	Robert Webb; Alex Blum; shop
Inks	? [shop]
Notes	Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wing Tips filler "B-25 Mitchell"

Synopsis	Stats on this aircraft and some drawings of it.
Genre	fact
Pencils	Ruth Atkinson?
Inks	Ruth Atkinson?
Notes	Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page

Synopsis	Comprised of letters sent in by the readers.
Letters	typeset
Notes	Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

5 page Jane Martin story "In a ferry pilot's barracks somewhere in England:"

Genre	war
Script	? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils	Ruth Atkinson
Inks	Ruth Atkinson
Notes	Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). HW sees some Fran Hopper here, too.

2 page text story "50,000 Planes For Sale"

Genre	war
Letters	typeset
Notes	Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

7 page Clipper Kirk story "A handful of desperate men tossed by fate..."

Genre	war; aviation
Script	Cliff DuBois (signed)
Pencils	Jack Keller (signed)
Inks	Jack Keller (signed)
Notes	Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).