Issue Details

Issue	#8
Published	April 1941
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	68
Editing	Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Gene Fawcette (Art Director)
Notes	Interesting issue: Gene Fawcette takes over as Art Director and the "authors" on half the strips change: Parachute Patrol now by "Casey McKay" instead of "Pat Powers," etc. And many new artists show up. Appears as if Fiction House is bringing production in house.

Cover Details - "The Wings of Doom"

Genre	war
Pencils	Gene Fawcette
Inks	Gene Fawcette
Notes	Interesting issue: Gene Fawcette takes over as Art Director and the "authors" on half the strips change: Parachute Patrol now by "Casey McKay" instead of "Pat Powers," etc. And many new artists show up. Appears as if Fiction House is bringing production in house.

7 page Skull Squad story The Wings of Doom ["The first giant four-motored flying fortresses have..."]

Genre	war
Script	? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils	Arthur Peddy
Inks	Arthur Peddy; ?
Notes	The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

6 page Parachute Patrol story "Far from the furnaces of the great mill..."

Characters	V: Karl and other spies (I for all); I: Col. Howard
Genre	war
Script	? [as Casey McKay]
Pencils	Bob Butts?

6 page Jane Martin story "A delirious British aviator drags himself to the..."

Characters	V: Heinrich and another Nazi (I for both); I: Three gunners
Genre	war
Script	? [as F.E. Lincolm [sic]]
Pencils	Al Gabriele
Inks	? [shop]
Notes	Female faces resemble Al Gabrielle, but others seem more like Alex Raymond swipes or Al Bryant. Definitely done by diverse hands. HW suggests some Vern Henkel.

7 page The Phantom Falcons story "Taking advantage of Italian reverses in Greece, the..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Kit Gleason]
Pencils	Leonard Frank
Inks	Leonard Frank

5 page Captain Derek West story "Spy Hawk"

Characters	Tim Cassidy
Genre	war
Pencils	F. Schwarz?
Inks	F. Schwarz?
Notes	Capt. Derek West is a fictional author. Art on final two pages also resembles an artist named Jay.

2 page Wing Tips filler "Scouts of the Sea"

Genre	true
Pencils	Gene Fawcette
Inks	Gene Fawcette

2 page text story "The Man Who Turned Tail"

Genre	war
Script	? [as Gordon Wayne]
Letters	typeset

3 page story "Subterranean Airdrome"

Characters	A "What if?" story
Genre	war
Pencils	Al Walker [page 1]; John Cassone?
Inks	?

8 page Suicide Smith story "All is quiet, or so it seems... At the..."

Characters	GS: The Haywire Squadron; I: Cmdr. Cawthorne
Genre	war
Script	? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Notes	Reminiscent in places of Gabrielle and Jenney and ?

6 page F4 of the air intelligence story "F-4, America's daring secret agent, steps from a..."

Characters	I: J-9; V: A Japanese spy ring (I)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Bill Fox]
Pencils	Jay?
Inks	Jay?
Notes	Resembles very much an artist who signs "Jay" in the late 1940s.

6 page Clipper Kirk story "Clipper Kirk is with an RAF squadron somewhere..."

Characters	V: Teddy Watson (I)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Cliff Debois]
Pencils	Ed Smalle
Inks	Ed Smalle

6 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "C'mon, Grif. Wrap yourself in a parachute. I'm..."

Characters	I: Ace Hawks
Genre	war
Script	? [as Jay Ryder]
Pencils	Klaus Nordling
Inks	Klaus Nordling