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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published May 1941
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 68
Editing Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Gene Fawcette (Art Director)
Notes Art credits from Nicholas Burns via the GCD Errors List (10 February 2006). Recorrected and finalized by Henry Steele, Hames Ware and JVJ (15 October 2006).

Cover Details - "The Divers of Doom"

Genre war
Pencils Gene Fawcette
Inks Gene Fawcette
Letters typeset
Notes Art credits from Nicholas Burns via the GCD Errors List (10 February 2006). Recorrected and finalized by Henry Steele, Hames Ware and JVJ (15 October 2006).

7 page The Skull Squad story Fools For Glory] ["The Skull Squad, with the RAF in Albania..."

Characters V: Stiletto (I)
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 "The parachute patrol has been sent to a..."

Characters V: Lord Manning (I)
Genre war
Script ?
Pencils Bob Butts?
Inks Bob Butts?
Notes No house-name credit appears.

6 page Jane Martin story "At a British airport a siren screams a..."

Characters V: A doctor (I); Nazi spies (I)
Genre war
Script ? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils Nick Viscardi
Inks Nick Viscardi

8 page Clipper Kirk story "Guarding Britain's life line...the Atlantic sea lanes..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Cliff Debois]
Pencils John Celardo
Inks John Celardo

6 page Captain Derek West story "Vultures of Vengeance"

Characters I: Rip Hollister
Genre war
Script ? [as Captain Derek West]
Pencils John Celardo?
Inks John Cassone?; ?
Notes Only vaguely resembles Celardo's art. HS & HW are more convinced than I am that he is here. I think straight Cassone is more likely. JV

2 page Wing Tips filler "The Republic 'Guardsman' is a two seater fighter..."

Genre true
Pencils Gene Fawcette
Inks Gene Fawcette

2 page text story "Flying Colors"

Genre war
Script ? [as Gordon Wayne]
Letters typeset

8 page Suicide Smith story "Suicide Smith, in a daring attempt to learn..."

Characters V: A Nazi commandant (I)
Genre war
Script ? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Al Gabriele?; Vern Henkel?
Notes Interesting to note that GCD had "Liebeck" as the artist here. "Liebeck" being Henry's misreading of a Gabriele signature and existing nowhere else in comic book literature, this clearly indicates that the previous credits were taken from the HS index without attribution.

6 page F4 of the air intelligence story "A coded message from the head of the..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Bill Fox]
Pencils Al Bryant?; Jay?
Inks Al Bryant?; Jay?

7 page The Phantom Falcons story "Once again the five Phantom Falcons, Tom Akeley,..."

Characters I: Jeffrey [Akeley?] (Akeley's uncle)
Genre war
Script ? [as Kit Gleason]
Pencils Leonard Frank
Inks Leonard Frank

6 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "For Greasemonkey's fine work in bagging the nazis..."

Characters I: A commander
Genre war
Script ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils Al Walker
Inks Al Walker