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| a Crucial episode in tthe Airboy Narrative here.
I find myself wondering what the reaction would be for a adolescent boy on spotting this cover. Or his mother's reaction when he took it home. Curious that Valkyrie and the AirMaidens are clearly women and all have the hots for 'AirBOY'?! And we even have a whiip on the cover.
Fredric Wertham would have loved this book.
Fred Kida's art is excellent. I've always wondered about the validity of the name of the inker, Bill Quackenbush?!
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| Publication | November 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: War |
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| Comic Story | Airboy Meets Valkyrie (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Valkyrie, whose heart is as black as the ace of spades, more than welcomes the chance to take on Airboy and succeeds in capturing him and Birdie. Not satisfied that she is the better pilot, the air maiden wants to battle Airboy, using his own plane against him. Some of the Airmaidens free Airboy and hide him, but they are later captured and all are sentenced to death. But Valkyrie, in love with Airboy, reforms, and she and her Airmaidens turn the tables on the Nazis and save the day. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; War | Characters: Airmaidens (villains, introduction for all, all reform); Oberst (villain, introduction, death); The Nazis (villains, introduction for all, many die) |
| Notes | First appearance of Valkyrie and the Airmaidens.
Script credits were added by Craig Delich, as suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Delich also suggested Warren Kuhn, but per Kuhn's 2018 obituary, he was in the Army during this time period (1943-1946) and his known Hillman work was a backup feature in the Airboy Comics and story in Real Clue Comics, both circa 1949 per Bails. Circa 1949 corresponds with his time in New York attending New York University (1946-1948) and Columbia University (1948-1950). So it is unlikely to be Kuhn here. |
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| Comic Story | Zombies of the High Llama (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | An archaeological society of October 28, 2985 A.D. discovers the wreckage of the 20th Century in their travels, including some movie film highlighting the exploits of Sky Wolf and his band in 1943, fighting over the jungles of New Guinea. They are captured by the High Llama and his zombie followers, and are hypnotized to go out and fight against the British forces. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Sky Wolf's Band [Cocky-Roche; the Judge; the Turtle]; High Llama (villain, actually a Japanese in disguise, death); the Llama's zombie followers (villains, all die) |
| Notes | The last panel blurb gives the title of next issue's story: "Prince of Evil." |
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| Comic Story | Swooner the Crooner (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Skinny McGinty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Skinny McGinty; Rudy Swooner; Col. Burpdale; Col. Burpdale's daughter |
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| Comic Story | The Nazi Robot Bombers (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Magog |
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| Text Story | How to Find a Marine (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bill Burke is in charge of a rescue mission to retrieve a pilot who was forced to bail out of his plane. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Bill Burke; Ensign Mallow; Red Williams |
| Notes | Solomon Islands; World War II |
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| Comic Story | The Plot to Destroy Mt. Rushmore (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Bald Eagle |
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| Comic Story | The Judas Sacrifice (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sylvia reads in the newspaper that the Nazis are crying foul over R.A.F. pilot Jeff bombing their schools and hospitals. But he denies that, claiming that photos of him attacking these targets was doctored. When the Nazis murder Jeff, the Black Angel steps in to square accounts. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Jeff (pilot, death); Schmidt's wife; The Nazis [Lt. Schmidt (death); Hans; others un-named] (villains, some die) |
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| Comic Story | The Dutchman's Ruse (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Dutchman and Rausbeck have an aerial battle and the Dutchman wins, while Rausman dies. Cleverly, the Dutchman switches uniforms and planes so that Nazi forces believed that their hated enemy is dead. Now the Dutchman is flying with the enemy and causing destruction all along the way. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Major Kurt Rausbeck (villain, death); Lt. Rausbeck (villain, Rausman's brother, pilot); Major Streeter (villain, pilot); The Nazis (villains, many die) |
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