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Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 5 #5

  • Vol. 5 #5
    Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 5 #5
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4452705003
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Carmine Infantino and Fred Kida. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #52. No issue # on cover; Vol. 5, issue #5 in indicia. Airboy's life becomes the object of a deadly wager between two master magicians. Escaped convicts run afoul of hostile natives, The Heap, and each other, in a story with early art by comics legend Carmine Infantino. Flying Fool and his redheaded female rival, Riot O'Hara, contend with American hit man turned Tong assassin Georgie Dunn. Creepy cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Airboy: Battle of the Magicians; The Flying Fool: Five Hundred Dollars a Head; The Heap; One Night in China; The General Loses a Town; No Waiting; The Boomerang Arrow. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.