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Issue: Airboy Comics #4 [111] Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1953
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Issues: #4 [111] of 89 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: A Hillman PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 10
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Ernest Schroeder
Inker(s): Ernest Schroeder
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Cannon of Zomboli

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernest Schroeder
Inker(s): Ernest Schroeder
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]; Zomboli (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Last Golden Age appearance. Next appearance in New DNAgents, The (Eclipse, 1985 series) #10.
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Lobster Alley

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lorence Bjorklund
Inker(s): Lorence Bjorklund
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Bjorklund drew the western feature "Tex Granger" for Parents' Magazine Press, several stories for Hillman 1951-53, and the western feature "The Hawk" for Ziff-Davis. He can be spotted by his rugged faces and fine horses.
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Vitamin Vic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Tombstone Click

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: McCann has other stories in Airboy Comics, and several Classics Illustrated. He is very easy to spot by his long noses and small chins, much black inking, old halfdead faces and very little action.
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Maloo and the Kicker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 5
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Chains of Khydoo

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 2
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The Cave of the Banshee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernest Schroeder
Inker(s): Ernest Schroeder
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Heap
Character(s): The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Moira Shea; Tim O'Connor (Moira's boy friend); Killarney King (white stallion); Moira's un-named Uncle; The Countess (villain, introduction, death); Carney (villain, introduction, death); Satan (villain, black stallion)
Synopsis: Beggar girl Moira, victim of her Uncle's spending of her fortune on bad race horses, is informed she does own a beautiful white stallion that she could race and win money on. She must face the challenge of the evil Countess and her stallion Satan, however, who will use any trick to win.....that is, until the Heap intervenes.
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In Issue: FlagRoy Thomas Presents The Heap #3 published March 2013
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Last Golden Age appearance. Next appearance in New DNAgents, The (Eclipse, 1985 series) #9 and Miracleman (Eclipse, 1985 series) #8.

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