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Issue: Air Fighters Comics #2 [2] Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1942
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Issues: #2 [2] of 22 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/16/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Volume 37, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 565589.

Hillman Periodicals, Inc., at Chicago, Ill. Executive and editorial offices: 1476 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Copyright 1942 Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Greatest Comic Book Yet!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation, war
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Origin of Airboy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Character(s): Brother Francis Martier (introduction, death); monk of Capistrano [Cartwell] (introduction); Amelia Earhart; Billy Mitchell; Wiley Post; Wilbur Wright; Orville Wright; Colin P. Kelly; Lt. Black (death); Kress Sessler (introduction, death); Mr. Johnson (introduction); Hirote [Hirota] (villain, introduction)
First Line: When our fighting men meet death at sea...
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In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as The Origin of Airboy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Storyline is continued in the next issue.
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The Coming of Sky Wolf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Character(s): Cocky Roche (introduction); Turtle (introduction); Judge (introduction); Goro (introduction); Frisco (seeming villain, introduction); Baron Von Tundra (villain, introduction)
First Line: When the Nazi ace, Half-Man, and Goro....
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In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as The Coming of Sky Wolf [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
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The Origin of the Iron Ace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Character(s): un-named French resistance members; Doctor Lafarge (introduction, death); The Nazis (villains)
First Line: Centuries ago on a bloody battlefield of France...
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In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as The Origin of the Iron Ace [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Fire Over Benghazi

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation, war
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In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as Fire Over Benghazi [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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The Baroness Blood

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Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Character(s): Lady Lawton (introduction, Sylvia's Aunt); French freedom fighter (death); Baroness Blood (villain, introduction); The Nazis (villains, some die)
First Line: The Black Angel vs. that Nazi Cobra of the Skies, the Baroness Blood...
Synopsis: After saving the Wembley Airplane Factory from Nazi attack, the Black Angel overhears some Nazi agents aboard a train tell about a raid on an Allied Convoy #607 by a secret Nazi submarine base. Unknown to the Angel, Baroness von Blood is behind the plan of attack.
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In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as Baroness Blood [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHero #1 published May 2001
as Baroness Blood [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, humorous
Feature(s): Wun Wing Spin
First Line: Our story finds a strange little scientist at work...
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In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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The Lifeless Invaders!

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Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Character(s): Japanese Army [General Kari (death)]
First Line: Out of the embattled Pacific swoops a cunning foe...
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In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as The Lifeless Invaders [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
First Line: A special message to the boys and girls of America from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury
Synopsis: The publishers donated this space, on behalf of the U.S. Savings Bonds and War Stamps campaign, to published a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., encouraging the boys and girls of America to buy at least one 10 cent Savings Stamp each week to help the war effort.
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Pages: 1
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The Coming of the Dutchman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Character(s): Nazis [Colonel Voss (introduction)]; Dutch patriots [Helga Maanen (introduction)]
First Line: An ace of Holland, a country over-run by Nazi vultures...
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In Content Item: FlagAir Fighters Classics #1 published November 1987
as The Coming of the Dutchman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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