Issue Details

Issue	#45
Published	May 1944
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	John F. Byrne (Editor)

Cover Details - "Hell's Cargo"

Genre	war
Pencils	Art Saaf
Inks	Art Saaf

10 page Captain Wings story "And the torch of freedom which burned at..."

Characters	V: Capt. Hashika (I), the Japanese
Genre	war
Script	?
Pencils	Ruben Moreira [as Rubimor]
Inks	Ruben Moreira [as Rubimor]

8 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "A bumper crop of inventors blooms in the..."

Characters	I: Lord Penbroken, Prof. Poppen J. Ipswitch; V: Hermann Goering, Nazis
Genre	war
Script	? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils	Alex Blum; Gus Schrotter
Inks	Alex Blum; ?

6 page Clipper Kirk ["They began building her in 1940 with the..."] story "Hell's Cargo "

Characters	GS: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek; V: The Nazis
Genre	war
Script	? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils	Lee Elias (signed)
Inks	Lee Elias (signed)
Notes	The story title is taken from the cover.

6 page Skull Squad story "An RAF base in England:" "Sorry Jimmy, no mail..."

Characters	V: The Nazis
Genre	war
Script	? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils	Ruth Atkinson (signed)
Inks	Ruth Atkinson (signed)

1 page Wing Tips filler "The Hellcat"

Genre	fact
Pencils	Ruth Atkinson (signed)
Inks	Ruth Atkinson (signed)

5 page Jane Martin story "At allied GHQ on the island of Gibraltar:"]

Characters	V: The Nazis; I: Pilo and three pilots
Genre	war
Script	? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils	Lily Renee (signed)
Inks	Lily Renee (signed)

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page "n/a"

2 page Yank Aces of World War II story "The Hero of Djebel Bou Arada"

Genre	war
Pencils	Alex Blum; Arnold Hicks?
Inks	Arnold Hicks; [shop]
Notes	The "Yank Aces..." title is not used here and the hero is an infantryman.

2 page n/a text story "Thunder In the Alps"

Genre	war
Script	? [as L. L. Trent]
Letters	typeset

7 page Suicide Smith story "Somewhere in the northern Balkans:" "This makes the seventh..."

Characters	I: Trina; V: The Nazis
Genre	war
Script	? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils	Lee Elias (signed)
Inks	Lee Elias (signed)