Rocket Kelly (1944) comic books 1943-1945

Art by Arnold Hicks and others. Cover by E. C. Stoner. Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. Kelly is called in when unexplained forces cause ocean levels to rise around the world; Educational comics about clouds and air pressure; A mysterious galactic elder appoints Kelly the Keeper of the Flame of Democracy, the mystic energy felt by all the free people of the universe. Doors of Death; Flame of Space; Up in the Clouds; Air Pressure Quiz; Diablo's Dark Secret; For Victory. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Small, Betty Burrows, Jami Wade and Al Jones. Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. Kelly's old foe Nihil seizes control of Kelly's rocket ship and cache of experimental weapons; A giant snake is used for murder by a villain with his own crocodile pit; Illuso, who looks like Mandrake the Magician in a turban, investigates the disappearance of a little girl's father. When Mountains Trembled; The Search For Tom Jones; Men Can Fly ... A Dream That Came True; The Vengeance of Vengo; Forty-Five Feet of Murder; The Murder of Stanton Lamont. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Len Short, Alec Hope and Tom Frost. Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. Kelly's old foe Professor Venom threatens Earth with literal Trojan Horses from space; Professor Mogul threatens Earth with an army of robots, in a story featuring an image of Earth from space with latitude and longitude lines visible; Percy rents a house and tries to play cards with ghosts who are afraid of him. Horses of Doom; The Mars Mystery; The Fizz That Fizzled; Imagine That; The Snowball; The Eerie Plot; Hand of Fate; Percy. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.