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Issue: Wings Comics #86

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Publication Date: October 1947

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Issues: #86 of 124 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

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Indicia Publisher: Wings Pub. Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/25/1947

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (7 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:

Captain Wings #1 published January 1994 as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Bob Lubbers

Inker(s): Bob Lubbers

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Cover scene does not apply to any inside story.

The Big 6 of the Comics

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

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promo ad in color on inside front cover showing the covers of Wings Comics #86; Jumbo Comics #104; Jungle Comics #94; Rangers Comics #37; Fight Comics #52; Planet Comics #51.

Moon Raiders of Tomorrow

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Bob Lubbers

Inker(s): Bob Lubbers ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Captain Wings

Character(s): Captain Wings; Dr. Szkyzk (intro); VILLAINS: Mr. Atlantis; Rita (dies); Marcel (intro?); Hassan (intro?)

First Line: Atom attacks from outer space? Air bases on...

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Pages: 10

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

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): George Evans [as GE] (signed)

Inker(s): George Evans [as GE] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Jane Martin

Character(s): Jane Martin; Bob (a pilot; intro); VILLAINS: Mr. Allen; Pete; their gang

First Line: Selling airplanes for a penny-pinching boss wasn't exactly...

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Kip Beales]

Penciller(s): Al Walker [as AW] (signed)

Inker(s): Al Walker [as AW] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Greasemonkey Griffin

Character(s): Emil (Villain, Intro); Mabel (Villain, Intro); Grimshaw Griffin (Villain, Intro)

First Line: Yes, sir, the professors are really musing at...

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Pages: 6

Capt. Robert S. Johnson

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Pete Costanza ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

Feature(s): Air Heroes of World War II

Character(s): Robert Samuel Johnson; Col. Hubert Zemke; Gerald Johnson; Mahurin; Francis Gabreski

First Line: Out in Lawton, Oklahoma, in 1934, a stocky muscular kid named...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: illustrated text story

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Cliff Dubois]

Penciller(s): Charles Sultan

Inker(s): Charles Sultan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): The Phantom Falcon

Character(s): Steve (Villain, Intro, Death); The Boss (Villain, Intro, Death); Mr. Gwynn (Intro, Death); Miss Gwynn (Intro)

First Line: As the Phantom Falcon, Chet Horne, found himself...

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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

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters of comment from Frank Symington; Shirley Graves; Sylvia Velasco; Dorothy Rozanski; Sue Etta Newcomb; June Sasse; Walter Rice. In addition, quotes are taken from the letters of ten other readers.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): John Celardo (signed)

Inker(s): John Celardo (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Suicide Smith

Character(s): Suicide Smith; Dominique Alvarez; President Alvarez; VILLAINS: El Culebra (intro; dies); his gang (intro)

First Line: On to Aero Munda's field sped the heavily-guarded limousine...

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Capt. Derek West]

Penciller(s): Maurice Whitman (signed)

Inker(s): Maurice Whitman (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Ghost Squadron

Character(s): Ghost Squadron; Isabella (a doll and its ghost; intro); Doudiet (intro; dies; ghost); Bill Kiemle (intro; dies; ghost); Lem (intro; dies; ghost); Susan (intro); VILLAINS: Lt. Bob Tyler (intro; dies)

First Line: Her name was Isabella and she was a...

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Pages: 8

Notes: ultra-gory decapitation panel!