Issue Details

Issue	#69
Published	May 1946
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Corsair of the Monsoon Skies"

Genre	war
Pencils	Lee Elias (signed)
Inks	Lee Elias (signed)

10 page Captain Wings story "Tiger, tiger, skulking the Burma bush...but the..."

Characters	V: Lal Singh (I, D); King Phaya; I: Princess Aubiliala; Jakuh
Genre	adventure
Script	? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils	Lee Elias
Inks	Lee Elias ?
Notes	HS notes different inks than previous episodes that were signed by Elias.

6 page Jane Martin story "The stakes were high when two Mexican airlines..."

Characters	V: Darango (I); I: Jose Progreso and his son
Genre	adventure
Script	? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils	Fran Hopper
Inks	Fran Hopper; Marcia Snyder

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

Letters

typeset

6 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "Oboy! If the army wuz like this, I'd..."

Characters	V: Dr. Phineas A. G. Applebottom (I); Maisie (I)
Genre	humor
Script	? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils	Alex Blum ?; Gus Schrotter ?
Inks	? [shop]

6 page Suicide Smith story Corsair of the Monsoon Skies ["La Prensa. air minister Fuente out as bribe..."]

Characters	V: Don Fuente (I, D); GS: Dale Johnson; Mr. Johnson
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 story "The Emperor of Tomorrow"

Genre	war
Script	? [as Jans Jorgesen]
Letters	typeset

6 page The Phantom Falcon story "Who Is the Phantom Falcon? [part 2]"

Characters	I & O: The Phantom Falcon (Clipper Kirk; cont'd from story in #68); V: K7; Anton (I, D); and other enemy agents (I for all)
Genre	spy
Script	? [as William Brooks]
Pencils	Joey Cavallo (signed)
Inks	Joey Cavallo (signed)

2 page Wing Tips filler "So you think you know aviation, eh? This..."

Synopsis	Aviation quiz.
Genre	fact
Pencils	Mike Peppe (signed)
Inks	Mike Peppe (signed)

9 page Ghost Patrol story "Sky-Duel of the Near-Dead"

Characters	Ghost Patrol; I: Lt. Tom Briggs (temporarily D); V: Capt. Von Heill (I, D); GS: Death
Genre	war
Script	? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils	Maurice Whitman
Inks	Maurice Whitman
Notes	HS points out in a lengthly digression how he once mistook this for Rafael Astarita, but now sees it more objectively.
Reprinted	in Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #113 (Winter 1951) [abridged from nine pages to six]