Romance of Flying, The (Feature Book) (1942) comic books 1942-1944

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U.S. Edition. Stories, art and cover by Clayton Knight. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay's Feature Book was the first US comic book to devote complete issues to a single character or subject. This issue covers the history of flight, including a list of aviation records and firsts, focus on pioneering aviators, and the use of flight during wartime. Also featuring 8 pages of photos of Jimmy Doolittle's then-recent bombing run over Tokyo, a reprisal for the Pearl Harbor attack that inspired the book and film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Romance of Flying; Human Birds: Otto Lilienthal & Octave Chanute; Wright Brothers; Power Driven Flight, Famous Aces, War Birds; Air Aces; Admiral Byrd; We Bombed Tokyo; Charles Lindbergh; An Aerial Sortie From Shangri-La. 72 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Stories, art and cover by Clayton Knight. Canadian Edition of Romance of Flying, The (Feature Book) (1942) #33. This issue covers the history of flight, including a list of aviation records and firsts, focus on pioneering aviators, and the use of flight during wartime. Many of the featured stories are reprinted from the Magic Comics (1939) series. Stories /features include: Romance of Flying; Human Birds: Otto Lilienthal & Octave Chanute; Wright Brothers; Power Driven Flight, Famous Races and Flights, War Birds; The First Great War Ace, Captain Albert Ball; Georges Guynemer, French War Ace; An 'Ace of Aces', Major Raoul Lufbery; William Avery Bishop; The Flying Circus, Baron Manfred Von Richthoffen; A Wearer of the V.C., William Avery Bishop; American Aces, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and Lt. Frank Luke; Transatlantic Flights; First Non-Stop Flight Across U.S.A, John A. Macready and Lt. Oakley G. Kelly; The First Round-the-World Flight, Alford Williams; Wings over the North Pole, Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Lindy Conquers the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh; Another Aerial Globe-Trotter, Diedonne Coste; From Golden Gate to Botany Bay, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith; Women Pilots Conquer the Air, Amelia Earhart; Master of Speed and Distance, Frank Hawks; Ferry pilots, Clyde Pangborn Another World War in the Air, Edgar 'Cobber' Kain; The R.A.F. Earns its Medals, Charles H. Dyson; Americans form the Eagle Squadron, Chelsy Gordon Peterson, G.A. Daymond, and Carroll McColpin; Second World War Crashes on Americans, Captain Colin Kelly Jr.; America's Flying Heroes, Jesus Villamor and Samuel Marett; War in the Air, A.G. Malan; American Volunteer Group in China, Claire E. Chennault; From Scrasdale to Burma, Jack Newkirk; A Veteran Army Pilot Leads the Way, Ralph Royce; An Aerial Sortie From Shangri-La, Jimmie Doolittle. Includes foreword and photo of from Air Marshall W.A. Bishop (Honorary Captain of The Air Cadets of Canada) Excludes the 8 pages featuring the then recent bombing of Tokyo by Jimmie Doolittle found in the U.S. Edition. Full Color.