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Issue: Airboy Comics #8 [55] Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1948
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Issues: #8 [55] 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: (not set)
Volume: 5
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich [as Zolne] (signed)
Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich [as Zolne] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Skulduggery At Key Captivo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Wood
Penciller(s): Fred Kida
Inker(s): Fred Kida
Colorist(s): Dick Wood
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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The Pearls of Sianfu

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich
Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Flying Fool
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Riot O'Hara app.
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The Honor of Von Emmelman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Starr (signed)
Inker(s): Leonard Starr (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Heap
Character(s): The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Tom Beauchamp (engineer); Maria Helnar; Baron von Helnar (Maria's father, death); Portico (the Baron's servant); Captain Rustig; Captain Webbar; Captain Muellar
Synopsis: A wealthy Baron brings a young engineer to Africa to re-build an exact copy of the Baron's old airfield in Frankfort, Germany, in an effort of showing up Baron von Emmelman, a pilot considered over-rated by Helnar. The engineer learns of the Baron's hobby: dog-fighting with his friends in ancient aircraft using dummy ammo, and wonders what part that The Heap played in Helnar's death.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Some Heap origin details; reveals Von Emmelmann created the "Emmelmann turn" and was killed while making one. Art credits verified by Leonard Starr in Alter Ego #110 (June 2012).
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Old Buckskin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: True Story
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The First Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jules Steiner
Penciller(s): Jules Steiner
Inker(s): Jules Steiner
Colorist(s): Jules Steiner
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Nice Hunting
First Line: I always wanted a hunting jacket!
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Pages: 1
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The King of Lower California

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: True Story

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