Issue Details

Issue	#49
Published	September 1944
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	52
Editing	John F. Byrne (Managing Editor); Ruth Atkinson (Editor)
Notes	All info [except feature] added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

Cover Details - "Rockets Away!"

Genre	war
Pencils	Joe Doolin
Inks	Joe Doolin
Notes	All info [except feature] added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Big Six of the Comic Magazines"

Synopsis	House ad for Fiction House comics.
Pencils	various
Inks	various
Notes	Found on the inside front cover. Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

10 page Captain Wings story "This patrol stuff's driving me daffy...same old..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils	Art Saaf
Inks	Art Saaf
Notes	Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

8 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "My goo'ness! How'm I s'posed to read these instructions..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils	Alex Blum; ?
Inks	Harvey Fuller?; (shop)
Notes	Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Suicide Smith story "Mohammed's holy crown in the hands of Hitler's..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils	Lee Elias
Inks	Lee Elias
Notes	Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Skull Squad story "High above Norway's fjords, a Catalina noses down..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils	Robert Webb
Inks	David Heames?
Notes	Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page

Synopsis	Comprised of letters sent in by the readers.
Letters	typeset
Notes	Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page Wing Tips filler "Catalina PBY5-A"

Synopsis	Features stats on this aircraft.
Genre	fact
Pencils	Ruth Atkinson?
Inks	Ruth Atkinson?
Notes	Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

6 page Jane Martin story "Early one morning at an AAF base in Italy..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils	Ruth Atkinson; Fran Hopper?
Inks	Ruth Atkinson?; ?
Notes	Story title and genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

2 page text story "Thunder Behind Tokio"

Genre	war
Script	? [as Jans Jorgesen]
Letters	typeset
Notes	Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

7 page Clipper Kirk story Rockets Away ["In a briefing hut in England: Sure glad to..."]

Synopsis	Story title taken from the cover.
Genre	war
Script	? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils	Jack Keller (signed)
Inks	Jack Keller (signed)
Notes	Genre, writer credit and art verification added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).