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Issue Details

Issue #108
Published August 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor); William R. Shelton (Editor)
Notes Note that the cover image is taken from a reversed stat of the first panel of the Captain Wings story, with two characters and a staircase added on the upper right to achieve the correct proportions.

Cover Details - "Taps for the Sky Snake"

Genre adventure
Pencils Bob Lubbers
Inks Bob Lubbers
Notes Note that the cover image is taken from a reversed stat of the first panel of the Captain Wings story, with two characters and a staircase added on the upper right to achieve the correct proportions.

9 page Captain Wings story Taps For the Sky Snake ["Throughout America's offices, files labelled 'ships lost in...'"]

Characters Captain Wings
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Pencils Bob Lubbers
Inks Bob Lubbers
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

7 page Ghost Squadron story "For many days the Germans' V-2 rockets had been..."

Characters Ghost Squadron
Genre mystery
Script ? [as Capt. Derek West]
Pencils Maurice Whitman (signed)
Inks Maurice Whitman (signed)

6 page Suicide Smith story "'El Carcel del San Vaca'...high sloping walls..."

Characters Suicide Smith
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils Alvin Hollingsworth (signed)
Inks Alvin Hollingsworth (signed)

2 page Air Heroes of World War II text article "Col. Don Blakeslee"

Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes illustrated text story

6 page Jane Martin story "Jason Kirby, famous Hollywood star, who last year..."

Characters Jane Martin
Genre crime
Script ? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils George Evans (signed)
Inks George Evans (signed)
Reprinted in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #5