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Issue: Wings Comics #16 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #16 of 124 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Wings Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/08/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, 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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The Human Torpedo

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Suicide Smith
First Line: Suicide Smith streaks down from the stratosphere on a super-bomb to blast Hitler's invincible hell-ship...
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Captain Wings [Capt. Smith] (introduction, origin); Mickey (introduction); The Mad Killer [Pop Moran] (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: The mad killer, a man of horror, whose...
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Jane Martin
First Line: At Russian headquarters: The troops at Korv are...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5.5
Disclose Notes: Not Gabriele's inks.
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The Human Torpedo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): Hinda; Chuck Hardy (introduction); Denny O'Toole (introduction); Winston Churchill; Zborov (villain, death?)
First Line: In route from Gibraltar to London, Suicide, Hinda...
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Pages: 7.5
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
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The Perilous Escape From the Train of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Kit Gleason]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): The Phantom Falcons
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Pages: 6
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Fight for the French Underground

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): The Franctireurs (introduction)
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Pages: 7
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Flying Battleship XB-19

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, drama, non-fiction
Feature(s): Wing Tips
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Jean Stark (introduction)
First Line: With England's vital sea lanes gutted by Nazi...
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Previous credit was for Art Saaf. An interesting if unlikely possibility.
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Dead Man's Ferry

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Gordon Wayne]
Penciller(s): ? (2 panels)
Inker(s): ? (2 panels)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): John Perry
Character(s): John Perry (introduction)
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Start of a series of text stories featuring John Perry.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Casey McKay]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): The Parachute Patrol
First Line: Tommy gets a present from his uncle in...
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Pages: 6
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The Wings of an Angel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Captain Derek West]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Captain Derek West
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Greasemonkey Griffin
Character(s): Tex Baker (introduction)
First Line: Greasemonkey watches Hugh 'Tex' Baker, American RAF ace...
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Pages: 6

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