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Issue: Wings Comics #78

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Publication Date: February 1947

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Detail

Issues: #78 of 124 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Wings Pub. Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/24/1946

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)

Notes: On-sale date given in the previous issue.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In1

Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:

Rangers #69 published January 1953 as Boyd "Buzz" Wagner [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- Boyd "Buzz" Wagner [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted from some/all another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (12 total)

Loot Queen of Satan's Skyways

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Bob Lubbers (signed)

Inker(s): Bob Lubbers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: This cover scene does not apply to any story inside.

The Super 7 of the Comics...

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Promo ad in color on inside front cover showing the covers of Wings Comics #78; Jumbo Comics #96; Jungle Comics #86; Rangers Comics #33; Fight Comics #48; Planet Comics #47; Movie Comics #2.

Loot Queen of Satan's Skyways

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Character(s): Lady T'Chai (introduction, dies); Captain Wings; Major Grant; Lt. Griper

First Line: Grave was China's peril -- for a fifth column...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Bob Hickok]

Penciller(s): Fran Hopper (signed)

Inker(s): Fran Hopper (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): Jane Martin

Character(s): Jane Martin; VILLAINS: Dunn (intro); Mike (intro); Gatty (intro)

First Line: It was only short weeks ago that Jane...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Kip Beales]

Penciller(s): Al Walker (signed)

Inker(s): Al Walker (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Greasemonkey Griffin

Character(s): Greasemonkey Griffin; VILLAIN: Bettina Bicep (intro)

First Line: Where's old G.G. headed for? Why, can't you...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (illustration)

Inker(s): ? (illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Wings' Air Mail

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.6

Notes: Letters of comment from Derek West (the Ghost Squadron writer); Walter Fitzgerald; Boots Ayers; Robert Hillyer; Frank Scott. Additionally there are quotes from the letters of twelve other readers.

[untitled]

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.4

Notes: Statement submitted by Jack Byrne, managing editor on September 20, 1946.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Cliff Dubois]

Penciller(s): Howard Larsen

Inker(s): Howard Larsen

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): The Phantom Falcon

Character(s): VILLAINS: W.F. Slade (intro; dies); Sal (intro; dies); a hireling (intro)

First Line: None know that Chet Horne, too-timid clerk and...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Boyd "Buzz" Wagner

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): George Evans

Inker(s): George Evans

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

Feature(s): Air Heroes of World War II

Reprinting

From Issue: Flag

Rangers #69 published January 1953

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: illustrated text story

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Capt. A. E. Carruthers]

Penciller(s): Charles Sultan

Inker(s): Charles Sultan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Suicide Smith

Character(s): Suicide Smith; VILLAINS: Herbie (intro; dies); Monk (intro); Ed (intro); Grange (intro)

First Line: It was to be a nice quiet flight...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Ghost Squadron; Beth Ames (introduction, death, returns as ghost); Jeff Ames; Johann (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: They were more than explorers, these three... they were comrades.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bob Lubbers (signed)

Inker(s): Bob Lubbers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Promo ad in color on inside back cover showing the covers of Toyland Comics #1 and Movie Comics #2.