| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Monsters of the Stratosphere |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War |
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| Publisher advertisement | 3 New, Different Comics! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Promotional ad for Sheena #2 (Winter 1942), Rangers Comics #9 (February 1943) and Wambi #2 (Winter 1942). |
| Featuring | Rangers; Wambi; Sheena |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Sheena; Wambi |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Promo ad shows the covers of Sheena #2 with art credited to Dan Zolnerowich; Rangers Comics #9 with art credited to Dan Zolnerowich and Wambi #2 with art credited to Henry Kiefer. |
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| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Capt. Wings; Link; Capt. Boggs; Major Burns; Dipper; Hunchie |
| Notes | Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Suicide Smith; Hinda; General Bard; Gruber; Fuisha |
| Notes | Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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| Comic Story | Lieut. John James Powers (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lt. Powers flies a bomber in the third battle of the Coral Sea. |
| Featuring | Yank Aces of World War II |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; Biography; War | Characters: Lt. John James Powers |
| Notes | Genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Typeset text runs across the bottoms of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects. |
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| Synopsis | Griffin loses a set of blueprints for a plane, so he makes up a set of blueprints himself to replace the lost set; the Nazis steal the fake blueprints and manufacture a plane based on Griffin's design. |
| Featuring | Greasemonkey Griffin |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Greasemonkey Griffin; Nazis; Col. Atkins |
| Notes | Story title, genre and writer added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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| Text Story | Crash Dive for the Jackpot (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jack receives a letter from his parents letting him know that the family barns burned down from a lightning strike; wishing to help his folks, Jack bets on himself to win a pool amongst the aviators. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Douglas Bell] | Pencils:? (1 panel art) | Inks:? (1 panel art) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Jack Moulton; Steve Weber; Chip Kinny; Mac Leavitt |
| Notes | Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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| Activity | Hitler's Latest Sky-Slugger (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Model Airplane Builder's Plans |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Template for building a wood model. |
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| Comic Story | Monsters of the Stratosphere (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Kent Douglas; Sandy MacGregor; Jimmy Jones; Schwarzvogel [Blackbird]; Franz |
| Notes | Genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). The story title was taken from the cover. |
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| Comic Story | Graveyard Flight (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mason and Barnes steal a plane to hunt for a German air base. |
| Featuring | Capt. Derek West |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lt. Chuck Mason; Red Barnes; Nazis |
| Notes | Genre, writer added; art verified by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Story title also appears on the cover. All lettering with the exception of a caption on first page and a caption at the end are typeset. Text runs across the tops of the panels, there are no word balloons or sound effects. |
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| Illustration | Meet a Brace of TB's (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Two aircraft drawings. |
| Featuring | Wing Tips |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
| Notes | Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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| Synopsis | Comprised of aircraft drawings sent in by readers Guy Holt Jr., Allan Slayton, and Edward Samut. |
| Featuring | Wings of America Club Page |
| Content | Genre: Aviation |
| Notes | Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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| Letters Page | Posolutely a Joik (1.67 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Letters of comment from James Tichenor; Eleanor Okaiski; Ensor Lynch; Floyd Jerdon, Jr.; Isadore Ettleman and Phil Bernstein; William J. Cassidy; Billy Stout; Pvt. J.D. Strong, USMC; Jim Sullivan; Fay Avera; Joe Belmont; Henry Payson. Story title taken from title of first letter of comment. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Statement signed by Larabie Cunningham, editor, on September 29, 1942. |
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| Synopsis | Jane Martin poses as a German nurse to tend to a captured Nazi in order to glean information from him. |
| Featuring | Jane Martin |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Jane Martin; Haask; Nazis; Heller |
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| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Clipper Kirk; Tonia; Nazis; Hans; Sahdi |
| Notes | Story title, genre and writer credit added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). |
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| Publisher advertisement | The Big Six of the Comics Magazines (1 page) |
| Featuring | Fiction House |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Kaänga; Ann Mason; Sheena; Flint Baker |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Promo ad in color on inside back cover showing the covers of Wings Comics #30; Jumbo Comics #47; Jungle Comics #37; Rangers Comics #9; Fight Comics #23; Planet Comics #22. |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Charles Atlas (photo) |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for the Dynamic Tension method of bodybuilding. |
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