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Issue Details

Issue #71
Published July 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)
Notes Art credits from Nicholas Burns via the GCD Errors List (10 February 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

Cover Details - " The Kamikaze Bird-Cage"

Genre war
Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias
Notes Art credits from Nicholas Burns via the GCD Errors List (10 February 2006). Entire issue updated/revised 12/2006 by HS/HW/JV.

10 page Captain Wings story The Kamikaze Bird-Cage ["Colonel Kamikaze's clever scheme to spread distrust among..."]

Characters V: Col. Kamikaze
Genre war
Script ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils Bob Lubbers (signed)
Inks Bob Lubbers (signed)
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

6 page Jane Martin story "The secret must be kept at any cost..."

Genre adventure
Script ? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils Fran Hopper
Inks Fran Hopper

6 page Greasemonkey Griffith story "All hands man the stomach pumps!"

Genre humor
Script ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils Al Walker (signed)
Inks Al Walker (signed)

5 page Air Aces of World War II biography (nonfictional) "Pappy" Boyington

Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Illustrated text story. HS suggests Hopper? and HW speculated Peppe? Not much to go on.

6 page Suicide Smith story Daredevil of the Skyways ["Take a jungle adventurer, an old professor, and..."]

Genre adventure
Script ? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils John Celardo (signed)
Inks John Celardo (signed)
Notes The story title is taken from a cover blurb.
Reprinted in Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #114 (Summer 1951)

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

Letters typeset

6 page Phantom Falcon story "Fascism's slimy tentacles lashed out from underground, seeking..."

Genre spy
Script ? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils Joey Cavallo
Inks Joey Cavallo

8 page Ghost Squadron story "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the charge..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils Rafael Astarita
Inks Rafael Astarita
Notes formerly Ghost Patrol