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Issue Details

Issue #68
Published April 1946
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 52
Editing J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)
Notes For all intents and purposes, this is a shoot-em-up, cops and robbers crime cover, and one of the "cops" just happens to be in a plane.

Cover Details - "The Banshee Express"

Genre crime
Pencils Lee Elias (signed)
Inks Lee Elias (signed)
Notes For all intents and purposes, this is a shoot-em-up, cops and robbers crime cover, and one of the "cops" just happens to be in a plane.

10 page Captain Wings story "War with Russia: Stormoviks and Mustangs lashing at..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils Lee Elias (signed)
Inks Lee Elias (signed)

6 page Jane Martin story "Any town but Tokyo is a better place..."

Genre spy
Script ? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils Fran Hopper (signed)
Inks Fran Hopper (signed)

1 page Wings' Air Mail letters page "Wings' Air Mail"

Letters typeset

6 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "Some GI's curse the khaki, some fake sick..."

Genre humor
Script ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils Alex Blum [pages 1 & 2], Gus Schrotter ?
Inks ? [shop]

7 page Suicide Smith story The Banshee Express ["Madman of the skyways, the huns called him..."]

Genre adventure
Script ? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils Alvin Hollingsworth (signed)
Inks Alvin Hollingsworth (signed)
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

2 page text article "The Team Behind the Pilot"

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

8 page Clipper Kirk story "Who is The Phantom Falcon?"

Characters I & O: Phantom Falcon (Clipper Kirk); Kirk's strip becomes The Phantom Falcon next issue
Genre spy
Script ? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils Joey Cavallo (signed)
Inks Joey Cavallo (signed)

8 page Ghost Patrol story "Revenge of the Spirit Bride"

Genre war
Script ? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils Rafael Astarita
Inks Rafael Astarita