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Issue: Wings Comics #8

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Publication Date: April 1941

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Issues: #8 of 124 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

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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):

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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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

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Content Items (14 total)

The Wings of Doom

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

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Pages: 1

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Wings' Air Mail

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: On inside front cover.

The Wings of Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: aviation, war

First Line: The first giant four-motored flying fortresses have...

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Pages: 7

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

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Casey McKay]

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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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as F. E. Lincolm [sic]]

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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Pages: 6

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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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Kit Gleason]

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

Spy Hawk

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Captain Derek West

Character(s): Tim Cassidy

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Pages: 5

Notes: Capt. Derek West is a fictional author. Art on final two pages also resembles an artist named Jay.

Scouts of the Sea

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Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Genres: aviation, drama, non-fiction

Feature(s): Wing Tips

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Pages: 2

The Man Who Turned Tail

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as Gordon Wayne]

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: war

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Pages: 2

Subterranean Airdrome

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Genres: war

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Pages: 3

Notes: A "What if?" story

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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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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Pages: 8

Notes: Reminiscent in places of Gabrielle and Jenney and ?

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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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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Pages: 6

Notes: Resembles very much an artist who signs "Jay" in the late 1940s.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as Cliff Debois]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

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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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Jay Ryder]

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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Pages: 6