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Issue: Airboy Comics #9 [32] Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1946
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Issues: #9 [32] of 89 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: A Hillman PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/15/1946
Volume: 3
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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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
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Fred Kida
Inker(s): Fred Kida
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Gil Parker, Phony Ace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Kida ?
Inker(s): Fred Kida ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]; Gil Parker
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Advice for Sale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Skinny McGinty
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Enter: Rickie Wood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Woolfolk ?
Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino ?
Inker(s): Carmine Infantino ? ; Frank Giacoia ?
Colorist(s): Bill Woolfolk?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, horror
Feature(s): The Heap
Character(s): The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman] (also flashback with origin recap); Rickie Wood (introduction); Mr. Wood (Rickie's father); Kelly (Policeman)
Synopsis: The Heap's origin is briefly retold and he meets Rickie Wood for the first time when the lad's errant, motorized German airplane is caught by the Heap in the woods. The two then become almost inseparable because of the German airplane.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Men of Mystery #7 published January 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint title: "Our strange tale here begins during World War I..."
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: 5th appearance of the Heap, 1st actual Heap story in his own strip.

Inks here look more like Giacoia than Infantino.
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Sealed in Lead

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack M. Greene
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Houlihan
Penciller(s): Roy Houlihan
Inker(s): Roy Houlihan
Colorist(s): Roy Houlihan
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Little Leo
First Line: Ah! It's finished!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Attack of the Army Ants

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Flying Dutchman
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Last Flying Dutchman story
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Hall
Penciller(s): Dick Hall
Inker(s): Dick Hall
Colorist(s): Dick Hall
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Windy and Tug
First Line: Awk! ...Where are you taking me, Windy!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Helfant
Penciller(s): Art Helfant
Inker(s): Art Helfant
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Art Helfant
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alfie and Ralphie
First Line: Y'know Ralphie, some people take all kinds of dangerous chances...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The "Grandma" of Smuggling

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alden McWilliams [as A McWilliams] (signed)
Inker(s): Alden McWilliams [as A McWilliams] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): SkyWolf
Character(s): SkyWolf [Larry Wolfe]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Helfant
Penciller(s): Art Helfant
Inker(s): Art Helfant
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Art Helfant
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alfie and Ralphie
First Line: Look, Ralphie! Food!!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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