Comicmarks
Wings Comics #53 - 1945
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | January 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Editing: John F. Byrne (Managing Editor); Ruth Atkinson (Editor) |
| Cover | Robot Death Over Manhattan |
| Featuring | Skull Squad |
| Credits | Pencils: Art Saaf | Inks: Art Saaf |
| Content | Genre: War |
| Comic Story | "Closer...closer roared the red-balled plane--closer to..." (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Wings |
| Credits | Script:? [as Major T. E. Bowen] | Pencils: Lee Elias (signed) | Inks: Lee Elias (signed) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Captain Wings |
| Comic Story | "After an evening's mess, our hero wastes some..." (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Greasemonkey Griffin |
| Credits | Script:? [as Kip Beales] | Pencils: Alex Blum | Inks: Alex Blum?; shop |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Greasemonkey Griffin |
| Comic Story | "Somewhere in England a lone Typhoon noses down..." (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Suicide Smith |
| Credits | Script:? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers] | Pencils: Jack Keller | Inks: Jack Keller? |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Suicide Smith |
| Filler | Flying Catfish (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wing Tips |
| Credits | Pencils: Gene Colan? | Inks: Gene Colan? |
| Content | Genre: Fact |
| Comic Story | Robot Death Over Manhattan ["C.O. paging us. I wonder what's up?"] (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Skull Squad |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ace Atkins] | Pencils: Matt Baker | Inks: Matt Baker; [shop] |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Skull Squad |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb. |
| Letters Page | Wings' Air Mail (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wings' Air Mail |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story | "Many details lie buried in the electric shock..." (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Jane Martin |
| Credits | Script:? [as F.E. Lincoln] |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Jane Martin |
| Notes | HS and HW guess Atkinson and Isip, respectively, but I don't see either of them. This is too crude. |
| Text Story | Peace With a Pencil (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as L. L. Trent] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War |
| Comic Story | "Up the Tyrrhenian plows a Navy carrier...against..." (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Clipper Kirk |
| Credits | Script:? [as Cliff Dubois] | Pencils: Gene Colan (signed) | Inks: Gene Colan (signed) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Clipper Kirk |
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