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Wings Comics (1940) comic books in grade NM- or lower

  • Item #63839757
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    Published Sep 1940 by Fiction House.

    Wings Comics (1940) 1 CBCS 4.5

    Paper: Off white

    Label #24-3BB5327-004

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    Starts Jan 3

    Edited by Malcolm Reiss, Jerry Iger and Will Eisner. Stories and art by Arthur Peddy, Witmer Williams, Charles Sultan, Klaus Nordling, Gene Fawcette, and George Tuska. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Action nurse Jane Martin puts the "combat" in "combat medicine"; The Phantom Falcons - Tom, Akeley, Dale, Jerry, and Parker - fight the Luftwaffe from their underground base in Switzerland; Greasemonkey Griffin is a military air mechanic whose life is a comedy of errors. Skull Squad; Parachute Patrol; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; F4 of the Air Intelligence; Suicide Smith; How Uncle Sam Trains His Warbirds; The Phantom Falcons; Wing Tips; The Hardluck Ace; Greasemonkey Griffin; Powder Burns. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #64103401
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    Published May 1941 by Fiction House.

    Wings Comics (1940) 9 FR/GD 1.5

    RESTORATION. Color touch, piece fill. 6.5" Cumulative spine split (taped from interior with archival tape).

    Starts Jan 19

    Cover by Gene Fawcette. Edited by Malcolm Reiss and Gene Fawcette. Stories and art by Arthur Peddy, Al Gabriele, Al Walker, John Celardo, Gene Fawcette, Leonard Frank, and Nick Cardy. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Clipper Kirk captures a mysterious map from a downed German pilot; Action nurse Jane Martin uses chloroform to escape a hospital that's a front for Nazi drug smugglers; Suicide Smith also faces drug-stealing Nazis, in the Mediterranean. Skull Squad; Parachute Patrol; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; F4 of the Air Intelligence; Suicide Smith; The Phantom Falcons; Wing Tips; Flying Colors; Vultures of Vengeance; Greasemonkey Griffin. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Wings Comics (1940) 98 GD+ 2.5

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    Cover by Bob Lubbers. Edited by J.F. Byrne and William R. Shelton. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, Art Saaf, Charles Sultan, George Evans, John Celardo and Maurice Whitman. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Reporter Jane Martin seeks a vanished European politician in the snowy mountains; Suicide Smith tries to calm enraged South American natives after dam workers steal an idol; A mysterious bird-spirit seems to drive a shell-shocked veteran to murder. Captain Wings; Jane Martin; The Flying Furies; Air Heroes of World War II; Phantom Falcon; Suicide Smith; Ghost Squadron. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.