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Issue Details

Issue #73
Published September 1946
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 52
Editing J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Through Hell and Stormoviks"

Genre war
Pencils Joe Doolin
Inks Joe Doolin

10 page Captain Wings story Through Hell and Stormoviks ["No longer did Captain Wings brood over his..."]

Characters Oliva Slansiski (intro); Villians: Col. Reginald Grayson and his aide (intro; death for both)
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 "Guarding a top secret jet plane is a..."

Characters A Nazi spy ring (intro; villains)
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Bob Hickok]
Pencils Fran Hopper
Inks Fran Hopper; Marcia Snyder ?

6 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "How will you have it, gents? Tens? Twenties?..."

Characters Boris (intro; villain); Vanya (intro; villain)
Genre humor
Script ? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils Al Walker (signed)
Inks Al Walker (signed)

5 page Air Heroes of World War II biography (nonfictional) "Paddy" Finucane

Genre fact
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Letters typeset
Notes Illustrated text story.

6 page The Phantom Falcon story "The eve of a secret atom bomb test..."

Characters Villains: Ota (intro); Karl (intro); Yoshito (intro)
Genre spy
Script ? [as Cliff Dubois]
Pencils Howard Larsen
Inks Howard Larsen

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

Letters typeset

6 page Suicide Smith story "Out of the dawn it came, a mystery..."

Characters Sr. Manzano (intro; villain; death)
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils Charles Sultan
Inks Charles Sultan

8 page Ghost Squadron story "Here's a story that Lieutenant Mal Martin told..."

Characters Lt. Mal Martin (intro); Valencia I (intro; a ghost); Nels (intro); Villains: Valencia II (intro; death); Histling (intro; death); Nazis
Genre war
Script ? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils Rafael Astarita
Inks Rafael Astarita