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Issue Details

Issue #89
Published January 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - " Rockets Away!"

Characters Captain Wings
Genre adventure
Pencils Bob Lubbers
Inks Bob Lubbers

10 page Captain Wings story Rockets Away! ["Double talk, that's what you've been dishin' us..."]

Characters Captain Wings; Susan Hartman (intro); VILLAINS: Mr. Atlantis; Miss Areia (intro?)
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils Bob Lubbers
Inks Bob Lubbers
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

6 page Jane Martin story "One costly fire after another plagued the vast forests..."

Characters Jane Martin; Dan King (intro); VILLAINS: Ling Tu (intro); Blackie (intro; die); Jewel (intro; die)
Genre crime
Script ? [as Bob Hickok]
Pencils George Evans (signed)
Inks George Evans (signed)

8 page Ghost Squadron story "Hank Roth was a man--and was so accepted..."

Characters Ghost Squadron; Joe Banks (intro); Gen. Warren (intro); Helene (intro; dies; a ghost); VILLAINS: Hank Ross (intro; dies; a ghost); the Japanese
Genre mystery
Script ? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils Maurice Whitman
Inks Maurice Whitman

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page "Wings' Air Mail"

Letters typeset

6 page Suicide Smith story "Creeping over towering mountains, stretching out in an..."

Characters Suicide Smith; VILLAINS: El Torro and his gang (all intro; die)
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils John Celardo
Inks John Celardo

6 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "The Super-Duper Snooperscope"

Characters Greasemonkey Griffin; Miss Dell (intro); Delaney (intro); VILLAIN: Schultz (intro)
Genre humor
Script ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils Al Walker
Inks Al Walker

5 page Air Heroes of World War II story "James H. Howard"

Genre fact
Pencils Al Walker
Inks Al Walker
Letters typeset
Notes illustrated text story

6 page The Phantom Falcon story "The whine of supercharged engines...the screech of..."

Characters The Phantom Falcon; Lucky Jordan (intro; dies); VILLAINS: Mike Gaxton (intro); Maxine (intro; dies)
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils Charles Sultan
Inks Charles Sultan