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Issue: Wings Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1940
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Issues: #4 of 124 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Wings Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/02/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Will Eisner [as Wm. E. Eisner] (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Raiders of the Steel-Ripped Skies

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gene Fawcette
Inker(s): Gene Fawcette
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Phantom Falcons
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Ace Atkins]
Penciller(s): Arthur Peddy
Inker(s): Arthur Peddy; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Skull Squad
Character(s): Hartmann (villain, introduction); Chuck Dawson (introduction); Jimmy Jones; Kent Douglas; Sandy MacGregor
First Line: The three comrades of the skull squad, Jimmy...
Synopsis: Chuck Dawson and the Skull Squad secretly engage in a private air raid to even the score with Hartmann.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Pat Powers]
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer; ? [shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Parachute Patrol
Character(s): Lord Roslyn (guest-star); Tommy; Blimbo; Curly; Otto
First Line: England is at grips with her final destiny...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Fred Hawks]
Penciller(s): Al Gabriele?
Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich?; ? [shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Jane Martin
Character(s): Tom Raleigh (guest-star)
First Line: On leave from the gruelling [sic] hardships of war...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: HS sees signs of Nick Cardy, but I think that the thin, distorted bodies are unlike NC.
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Raiders of the Steel-Ripped Skies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Kit Gleason]
Penciller(s): Leonard Frank
Inker(s): Leonard Frank
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): The Phantom Falcons
First Line: The Nazi invaders are foiled again...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Rick Ayers]
Penciller(s): Witmer Williams
Inker(s): Witmer Williams; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Clipper Kirk
First Line: Clipper Kirk is back on the front, attached...
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gene Fawcette
Inker(s): Gene Fawcette
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Feature(s): Wing Tips
First Line: Here are three naval wasps which spell think...
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Pages: 1
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Dodo Squadron

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Frank Crawford]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Tanks By Plane

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ? [shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): another "What if?" story
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: HS sees some Witmer Williams involvement, but I sense an unfamiliar artist that we may have seen at Jacquet and/or Timely. HW suggests possibly Tukel or Lou Ferstadt. Another "What if?" story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Alexander York]
Penciller(s): Alex Blum
Inker(s): Alex Blum; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): F4 of the air intelligence
Character(s): A phony C. O. (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: F-4 is called to headquarters: Our tenth observation...
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Clyde North]
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Powder Burns
Character(s): Elmo Lint (Cosmo Dust's cousin, introduction); Amelia Lint (his daughter, introduction)
First Line: Powder Burns, erstwhile playboy, but now broke and...
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Larry Shaw]
Penciller(s): Witmer Williams
Inker(s): Witmer Williams; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Suicide Smith
First Line: Suicide Smith is rushed to the Dover coast...
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Pages: 7
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Spitfire Ace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Ken Norwood]
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Captain Derek West
Character(s): Tim Cassidy [Spitfire Ace] (introduction, origin)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: According to the cover blurb: "The first in a series based on the stories of Capt. Derek West - foremost war-air writer of today."
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Jay Ryder]
Penciller(s): George Tuska
Inker(s): George Tuska
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Greasemonkey Griffin
Character(s): Jim Hawk (introduction); Gen. Fritz (villain, introduction)
First Line: Gee, thanks for all the hundreds of letters...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4

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