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Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) comic books 1951-1953

  • Vol. 8 #2
    Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 8 #2

    Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Ed Smalle and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #85. No issue # on cover; Vol. 8, issue #2 in indicia. Airboy's old pal Eddie Mackey becomes dangerously obsessed with the then-new idea of flying saucers. A student of primitive man is transformed into a Neanderthal by an ancient ritual of strength, and then confronts The Heap. A biography of France's greatest boxer - and boyfriend of legendary singer Edith Piaf - Marcel Cerdan. Airboy; The Heap; Lady of the Forest, Part 1; He Flew on Red Leather Wings; Tony of Gibraltar; The Malay Wolf. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 8 #3
    Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 8 #3

    Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Charles Raab and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #86. No issue # on cover; Vol. 8, issue #3 in indicia. Airboy battles Doctor Cyclon and the radioactive man called "The Living Fuse" aboard an experimental sea vessel. The Heap and a military deserter on the run encounter Count de Flon, aka the Mad Hermit, at the Dark Chateau. An aging lawman becomes sheriff of a 1930s Western town, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. Airboy Meets the Living Fuse!; The Heap; Lady of the Forest, Part 2; The Man Without Notches; Terrible Terry; Off the Orkney Islands; Great Moments In Football. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 9 #5
    Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 9 #5
    • 3/4" Spine split from bottom. Lateral spine tear. Centerfold detached.

    Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Bill Ely, Gerald McCann, Ed Cronin and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #100. No issue # on cover; Vol. 9, issue #5 in indicia. Airboy goes undercover in a nuclear sub factory to catch a saboteur. A colonial lord in North Africa uses strange moonlight plants to return from the dead, drawing the attention of The Heap. A Balkan couple raises a boy who has been bitten by a werewolf. Airboy; The Heap: The Man of Moonlight; Money Facts; The Wolf Boy of Krakow; The Bag Man; The Crown of Coort. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 9 #8
    Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 9 #8
    • Staple rust.

    Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by George Evans, Floyd Torbert and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #103. No issue # on cover; Vol. 9, issue #8 in indicia. Airboy investigates the legends of Runway 13, where the ghost of a crashed flight appears every night. A black crab brings evil to Jacques, the fisherman who catches it, and everyone around him. A simple fisherman outwits a greedy feudal lord and his rigged trials by combat. Airboy; The Heap: The Great Black Crab of Brittany; The Answer of the Maelstrom; Did You Know That...; Somewhere in Africa; Clunyngton's Giant. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 10 #4
    Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 10 #4
    • Paper: Off white
    • Slab: See item notes
    • Inner well not fully sealed, book appears unaffected and secure.
    • Label #3872615005

    Famous "Cannon Fodder" cover by Ernest Schroeder Renders new meaning to the term "shell-shocked!"

    Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Lorence Bjorklund, Gerald McCann and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #111. No issue # on cover; Vol. 10, issue #4 in indicia. Airboy suspects that enemy agents who use giant guns and bullets to travel are somehow linked to Zomboli, a secretly evil clown who performs for the wealthy elite. An impoverished woman faces an evil countess in a horse race, and The Heap shows up to even the odds. Frogmen discover the link between lobster traps and an attack on a US warship. The final appearances of Airboy and The Heap, until the characters were acquired by Eclipse Publishing in the 1980s. Airboy; The Heap; Lobster Alley; Vitamin Vic; The Tombstone Click; Maloo and the Kicker; Chains of Khydoo. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.