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Issue: Wings Comics #116 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1952
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Issues: #116 of 124 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Wings Pub. Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): J. F. Byrne (Mgr. Editor)
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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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Cover, Front
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Suicide Strike

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Maurice Whitman ?
Inker(s): Maurice Whitman ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): Captain Wings
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In Content Item: FlagWings Comics #116 published January 1952
as Suicide Strike [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Rocket's Red Glare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lt. Jim Cochrane U. S. A. F.]
Penciller(s): John Belcastro
Inker(s): John Belcastro
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Clipper King
Character(s): Clipper King (1st appearance); Pappy
Synopsis: Clipper King accidentally sees missiles the Russians were trying to smuggle close to the fleet and steals a B-29 to smoke them out.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Suicide Strike

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lee Elias
Inker(s): Lee Elias
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): Captain Wings
Character(s): Captain Wings; Griper; Olga Teslavich
First Line: 'Innocent!' she screamed. But UN brass knew differently...
Synopsis: Captain Wings tricks a Russian Spy into escaping and revealing the location of a new Russian rocket.
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From Content Item: FlagWings Comics #62 published October 1945
was Twilight of the Gods [Story on Interior Page(s)]greatly altered
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lee Elias
Inker(s): Lee Elias
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Captain Wings
Character(s): Captain Wings; Griper; Smitty
First Line: Sometimes it's the dumb, meaningless flights that hit...
Synopsis: Captain Wings takes a photographer up to test a new lens that will work thru fog.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Elias artwork from Wings #61 rearranged and revised in "service" of a new script.
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Sabres Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Major T. E. Bowen]
Penciller(s): Bill Discount [as Dee]
Inker(s): Bill Discount [as Dee]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Captain Wings
Character(s): Captain Wings; Rip Waldon; Caputo; Billy Main; Colonel Zozlov (Korean pilot); Commander Chan (Korean tank commander)
Synopsis: Captain Wings and Billy Main get shot down behind Korean lines and capture a Korean helicopter to return home.
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Pages: 9

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