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Issue: Wings Comics #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1941
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Issues: #8 of 124 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Wings Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/25/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Gene Fawcette (Art Director)
Disclose Notes: Interesting issue: Gene Fawcette takes over as Art Director and the "authors" on half the strips change: Parachute Patrol now by "Casey McKay" instead of "Pat Powers," etc. And many new artists show up. Appears as if Fiction House is bringing production in house.
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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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The Wings of Doom

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

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wings' Air Mail
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On inside front cover.
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The Wings of Doom

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
First Line: The first giant four-motored flying fortresses have...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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 Casey McKay]
Penciller(s): Bob Butts ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Parachute Patrol
Character(s): V: Karl and other spies (I for all); I: Col. Howard
First Line: Far from the furnaces of the great mill...
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as F. E. Lincolm [sic]]
Penciller(s): Al Gabriele
Inker(s): ? [shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Jane Martin
Character(s): V: Heinrich and another Nazi (I for both); I: Three gunners
First Line: A delirious British aviator drags himself to the...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Female faces resemble Al Gabrielle, but others seem more like Alex Raymond swipes or Al Bryant. Definitely done by diverse hands. HW suggests some Vern Henkel.
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[untitled]

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: Taking advantage of Italian reverses in Greece, the...
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Pages: 7
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Spy Hawk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Captain Derek West]
Penciller(s): Frank Schwarz ?
Inker(s): Frank Schwarz ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Captain Derek West
Character(s): Tim Cassidy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Capt. Derek West is a fictional author. Art on final two pages also resembles an artist named Jay.
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Scouts of the Sea

Illustration  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
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Man Who Turned Tail

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Gordon Wayne]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Subterranean Airdrome

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Walker [page 1]; John Cassone ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: A "What if?" story
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Suicide Smith
Character(s): GS: The Haywire Squadron; I: Cmdr. Cawthorne
First Line: All is quiet, or so it seems... At the...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Reminiscent in places of Gabrielle and Jenney and ?
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Bill Fox]
Penciller(s): Jay ?
Inker(s): Jay ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): F4 of the Air Intelligence
Character(s): I: J-9; V: A Japanese spy ring (I)
First Line: F-4, America's daring secret agent, steps from a...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Resembles very much an artist who signs "Jay" in the late 1940s.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Cliff Debois]
Penciller(s): Ed Smalle
Inker(s): Ed Smalle
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Clipper Kirk
Character(s): V: Teddy Watson (I)
First Line: Clipper Kirk is with an RAF squadron somewhere...
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Jay Ryder]
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Greasemonkey Griffin
Character(s): I: Ace Hawks
First Line: C'mon, Grif. Wrap yourself in a parachute. I'm...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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