Issue Details

Issue	#4
Published	December 1940
Cover Price	$0.10
Pages	68
Editing	Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Wm. E. Eisner (Art Director); S.M. Iger (Feature Editor)

Cover Details - "Raiders of the Steel-Ripped Skies"

Genre	war
Pencils	Gene Fawcette
Inks	Gene Fawcette

8 page Skull Squad story "The three comrades of the skull squad, Jimmy..."

Characters	V: Hartmann (I); I: Chuck Dawson
Genre	war
Script	? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils	Arthur Peddy
Inks	Arthur Peddy; ?

6 page Parachute Patrol story "England is at grips with her final destiny..."

Characters	GS: Lord Roslyn
Genre	war
Script	? [as Pat Powers]
Pencils	Henry Kiefer
Inks	Henry Kiefer; ? [shop]

5 page Jane Martin story "On leave from the gruelling [sic] hardships of war..."

Characters	GS: Tom Raleigh
Genre	war
Script	? [as Fred Hawks]
Pencils	Al Gabriele?
Inks	Dan Zolnerowich?; ? [shop]
Notes	HS sees signs of Nick Cardy, but I think that the thin, distorted bodies are unlike NC.

5 page The Phantom Falcons story Raiders of the Steel-Ripped Skies ["The nazi invaders are foiled again by the..."]

Genre	war
Script	? [as Kit Gleason]
Pencils	Leonard Frank
Inks	Leonard Frank
Notes	The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

6 page Clipper Kirk story "Clipper Kirk is back on the front, attached..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Rick Ayers]
Pencils	Witmer Williams
Inks	Witmer Williams; ?

1 page Wing Tips story "Here are three naval wasps which spell think..."

Genre	true
Pencils	Gene Fawcette
Inks	Gene Fawcette

2 page text story "Dodo Squadron"

Genre	war
Script	? [as Frank Crawford]
Letters	typeset

3 page story "Tanks By Plane"

Characters	another "What if?" story
Genre	true
Inks	? [shop]
Notes	HS sees some Witmer Williams involvement, but I sense an unfamiliar artist that we may have seen at Jacquet and/or Timely. HW suggests possibly Tukel or Lou Ferstadt.

4 page F4 of the air intelligence story "F-4 is called to headquarters: Our tenth observation..."

Characters	V: A phony C. O. (I, D)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Alexander York]
Pencils	Alex Blum
Inks	Alex Blum; ?

7 page Powder Burns story "Powder Burns, erstwhile playboy, but now broke and..."

Characters	I: Elmo Lint (Cosmo Dust's cousin); Amelia Lint (his daughter)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Clyde North]
Pencils	Klaus Nordling
Inks	Klaus Nordling?

7 page Suicide Smith story "Suicide Smith is rushed to the Dover coast..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Larry Shaw]
Pencils	Witmer Williams
Inks	Witmer Williams; ?

6 page Captain Derek West story "Spitfire Ace"

Characters	I & O: Tim Cassidy (the Spitfire Ace)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Ken Norwood]
Pencils	Klaus Nordling
Inks	Klaus Nordling
Notes	According to the cover blurb: "The first in a series based on the stories of Capt. Derek West - foremost war-air writer of today."

4 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "Gee, thanks for all the hundreds of letters..."

Characters	I: Jim Hawk; V: Gen. Fritz (I)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Jay Ryder]
Pencils	George Tuska
Inks	George Tuska