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| This issue marks the first appearance of "The Heap," a Swamp Thing-style character well before Swamp Thing appeared in DC Comics.
I like the way this title intermixes stories with a fantastic bent of incredible inventions and near-impossible derring-do with more standard war stories.
In commenting on #2, I said that the art didn't intend to offer realistic drawings of planes. I'm wrong in that this one has a page of WWII fighters (P-38, P-39, and P-40, respectively). Those drawings offered nice views of the planes for the medium. |
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| Publication | December 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Featuring | Airboy |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Biro | Inks: Charles Biro |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Airboy [David Nelson II]; SkyWolf [Larry Wolfe] (inset); Iron Ace [Captain Robert Britain] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Return of Hirota (13 pages) |
| Featuring | Airboy |
| Credits | Script: Charles Biro; Dick Wood | Pencils: Al Camy | Inks: Al Camy |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Airboy [David Nelson II]; Mickey; Hubert Kritzel; Deanna Darling; Murray (death); Kaufner; Hirote [Hirota] (villain) |
| Notes | Story continues in the next issue. Some sources state that Al Camy only drew the initial Airboy story, and that Tony DiPreta began illustrating this strip with this story. |
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| Comic Story | Wanted By the Nazis (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | One of Baron von Richthofen's fighter aces, Baron von Emmelmann, is shot down, his body being thrown into a swamp, where it merges with vegetation. Over a long period of time, from that swamp arises a being neither animal nor human: The Heap. In 1942, with the Nazis bringing their viciousness and cruelty to the land near the swamp, the Heap inadvertantly aides the SkyWolf and his comrades against the Nazi horde. |
| Featuring | SkyWolf |
| Credits | Script: Harry Stein | Pencils: Mort Leav | Inks: Mort Leav |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: SkyWolf [Larry Wolfe]; Turtle; Cocky; Judge; The Heap [Baron Eric Von Emmelmann] (introduction); Jan; Frisco (supposed villain); Baron Von Tundra (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Plot To Kill de Gaulle (9 pages) |
| Featuring | Iron Ace |
| Credits | Pencils: Fred Kida | Inks: Fred Kida |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Iron Ace [Captain Robert Britain]; Pierre Duval; General Charles de Gaulle; General La Monte (introduction); Von Kreetch (villain, introduction); the Nazis (villains) |
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| Text Story | Warriors At Home (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Nathaniel Nitkin | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Return of Baroness Blood (9 pages) |
| Featuring | Black Angel |
| Credits | Pencils: John Cassone | Inks: John Cassone |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Black Angel; Baroness Blood; Nazis; Lady Lawton |
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| Text Article | Our Eagles (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: Harry Sahle [as Sahle] (signed) | Inks: Harry Sahle [as Sahle] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | The Invisible Sabotage (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Bald Eagle |
| Credits | Pencils: Harry Sahle [as Sahle] (signed) | Inks: Harry Sahle [as Sahle] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Bald Eagle; Japanese army [Count Luna (introduction)] |
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| Featuring | Wun Wing Spin |
| Credits | Pencils: Al Jaffe | Inks: Al Jaffe |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Strange Nazi Corpse Bombs (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Flying Dutchman |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob Fujitani [as Bob Fuje] (signed) | Inks: Bob Fujitani [as Bob Fuje] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Flying Dutchman; Dutch patriots [Johann]; Nazis [Von Richter] |
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