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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published January 1941
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68

Cover Details - "The Torpedo Patrol"

Genre war
Pencils Gene Fawcette
Inks Gene Fawcette

8 page Skull Squad story "The bristol blenheim with the skull squad insignia..."

Characters I: Count De Chambreau
Genre war
Script ? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils Arthur Peddy
Inks Arthur Peddy; ?

6 page Parachute Patrol story "Three English boy scouts have become expert fliers..."

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

5 page Jane Martin story "A native chieftain has been wounded in Alexandria..."

Characters GS: Tom Raleigh; I: A sheik
Genre war
Script ? [as Fred Hawks]
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska; ?

5 page The Phantom Falcons story "The Adventure of the Mad Baron"

Characters V: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Baron Von Reichmann (D)
Genre war
Script ? [as Kit Gleason]
Pencils Leonard Frank
Inks Leonard Frank

5 page Clipper Kirk story The Torpedo Patrol ["Taking a daring chance, Clipper Kirk leads his..."]

Characters I: Capt. Donaldson
Genre war
Script ? [as Rick Ayers]
Pencils Witmer Williams
Inks Witmer Williams; ?
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

2 page text story "Yankee Manners"

Genre war
Script ? [as Rick N. Backer]
Letters typeset

2 page Wing Tips filler

Genre true
Pencils Gene Fawcette
Inks Gene Fawcette

3 page story "A Bomb With Wings"

Characters another "What if?" story
Genre war
Pencils Witmer Williams?
Inks Witmer Williams; ?

4 page F4 of the air intelligence story "F-4 is called into the office of admiral..."

Characters V: Von Hoff and his underling (both I, D)
Genre war
Script ? [as Alexander York]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum; ?

6 page Powder Burns story "Powder Burns, air adventurer, finds himself in Cairo..."

Characters GS: Amy Lint
Genre war
Script ? [as Clyde North]
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling?

7 page Suicide Smith story "While off active combat duty, Suicide Smith trains..."

Characters I: The Haywire Squadron
Genre WAR
Script ? [as Larry Shaw]
Pencils Witmer Williams
Inks Witmer Williams; ?

6 page Captain Derek West story "No Wings For a Coward"

Characters Supposedly adapted from a Derek West story; Tim Cassidy
Genre war
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling?

5 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "Dunder und blitzen! Me, a general of der..."

Characters V: Gen. Fritz, Schmitz (I; his brother)
Genre war
Script ? [as Jay Ryder]
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska; ?