Welcome to our aviation category, where comic book heroes really fly with the birds.
We have a real groundbreaker in Hillman's Airboy. Created by writers Charles Biro and Dick Wood
and artist Al Camy. Read his 1942 debut in Air Fighters Comics #2.
Airboy, real name Davy Nelson II, and his plane created by a Franciscan monk Brother Francis Martier
soon had their own title. Which ran for 89 issues until May 1953, and the demise of
Hillman.
Even more successful aviators were Blackhawk and his squadron. They first appeared in
Quality's Military Comics #1 and were ever present. The Blackhawk title lasted 99 issues
until the closure of Quality. But even that did not stop the run as it
was integrated with the DC Universe and published continuously until #243 in November 1968.
Other titles of note are Captain Aero who used his propeller as a saw and
Captain Steve Savage flying missions during the Korean War.
We have 57 titles and 1,307 issues in our 'Aviation Category' for you to enjoy.
Aviation Comics, Books and Radio Shows
| Air Adventures |
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| Section: | War and Military |
| Categories: | Aviation |
| Description: | Air Adventures was a short lived pulp magazine published by Ziff-Davis based in Chicago, USA. It ran to only 3 issues, in December 1939, February 1940 and then a final issue in November 1945.
Stories are all Second World War related. The first issue features ... |
| Airboy Archives |
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| Section: | Comic Book Compilations |
| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Aviation |
| Description: | Airboy is a fictional flying hero based during the Second World War. He was created by writers Charles Biro and Dick Wood and artist Al Camy.
His name was David Nelson II, the son of an expert pilot and despite his youth an excellent pilot himself. An orphan, ... |
| Blackhawk |
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| Available: | 119 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 99 |
| From: | 1944 |
| To: | Dec 1956 |
| Seq: | 9 - 107 |
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| Publisher: | Quality |
| Categories: | Aviation | War / Armed Forces |
| Description: | BLACKHAWK (Quality) 1944 Series.
No. 9, 1944 - no. 107, Dec 1956.
Formerly UNCLE SAM QUARTERLY (Quality) 1941 Series,
Continues as BLACKHAWK (DC) 1957 Series.
Featuring a group of WWII-era fighter pilots, the series, created by Will Eisner, would feature ... |
| Captain Aero |
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| Available: | 9 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 9 |
| From: | Feb 1942 |
| To: | Jan 1943 |
| Seq: | v1 8 - v2 4 |
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| Publisher: | Holyoke |
| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Aviation |
| Description: | (1941 series)
December 1941 - August 1946
Issues: 23 (V1 #7-V1#12, V2 #1-V2#4, V3#9-V3#13, V4#2-V4#3, #21-26)
Tracking: Numbering continues from Green Hornet Comics (Helnit, 1939 series).
Imprints: Holyoke, Et-Es-Go Magazines
Notes: Numbering discrepancies ... |
| Captain Midnight |
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation |
| Description: | Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, the Captain Midnight radio program was the creation of radio scripters Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M. Burtt, who had previously scored a success for Skelly with their boy pilot adventure serial The Air Adventures of Jimmie ... |
| Captain Steve Savage |
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| Available: | 20 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 8 |
| From: | 1950 |
| To: | Jan 1953 |
| Seq: | - 8 |
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| Publisher: | Avon Periodicals |
| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Aviation |
| Description: | CAPTAIN STEVE SAVAGE
1950 Series
nn (No. 1), 1950 - no. 9, Jan 1953
First issue not by Avon, but by Superior (Canadian)
1954 Series:
No. 5, Sep-Oct 1954 - no. 13, May-Jun 1956
Formerly SENSATIONAL POLICE CASES (Avon) 1954 Series. |
| Captain Wings Archives |
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| Available: | 4 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 4 |
| Seq: | 1 - 4 |
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| Section: | Comic Book Compilations |
| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Aviation |
| Description: | Captain Wings first appeared in Wings Comics #16 (December 1941) published by Fiction House. Written and created by Major T.E. Bowen.
His alter-ego is plain Captain Smith, who was both a special agent and a R.A.F. veteran. In his many adventures, the heroic ... |
| Contact |
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| Available: | 13 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 12 |
| From: | Jul 1944 |
| To: | Jul 1946 |
| Seq: | 1 - 12 |
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| Publisher: | Holyoke |
| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Aviation |
| Description: | (1944 series)
July 1944 - July 1946
Issues: #1 - 12
Imprint: Aviation Press
Artists on this title include Nina ALbright, Greg Altman, George Appel, L. B. Cole, Tony Dipreta, Al Feldstein, Louis Ferstadt, John Giunta, George Gregg, Maurice Gutwirth, Al Hollingsworth, ... |
| Flyin' Jenny |
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| Available: | 2 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| From: | 1939 |
| To: | 1946 |
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| Section: | Newspaper Comic Strips |
| Categories: | Adventure | Leading Ladies | Aviation |
| Description: | Flyin' Jenny created by Russell Keaton, made her maiden flight October 1939. Virginia Dare, to give her correct name was a test pilot at the Starcraft Aviation Factory. Appearing at the beginning of World War II Flyin' Jenny would not last long after ... |
| Flying Aces |
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| Available: | 4 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 5 |
| From: | Jul 1955 |
| To: | May 1956 |
| Seq: | 1 - 5 |
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| Publisher: | Stanley Morse (Key) |
| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Aviation |
| Description: | (1955 series)
July 1955 - May 1956
Issues #1-5
Notes: Medal Comics on cover of #3-5.
Artists on this title include S. Finocchiaro, Eugene Hughes & Sal Trapani |
| Hop Harrigan |
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| Categories: | Aviation |
| Description: | Hop Harrigan (also known as The Guardian Angel and Black Lamp) first appeared in All American Comics #1 created by Jon Blummer (Fighting Yank, Little Boy Blue) as one of the first successful aviation heroes in comic history (Hop appeared after Tailspin Tommy, ... |
| Jet Fury |
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| Available: | 5 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 15 |
| From: | 1950 |
| To: | 1952 |
| Seq: | 1 - 15 |
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| Section: | Australian & New Zealand Comics |
| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | Aviation | Detective |
| Description: | Jet Fury and his mystery plane, The Comet, fights crime. Art by Larry Horak.
JET STARR is by Yaroslav Horak, who, after a move to England a decade later, became best known for his work on the newspaper comic strip JAMES BOND.
STARR evolved from the American ... |
| Meccano Magazine |
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| Available: | 8 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| From: | 1916 |
| To: | 1981 |
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| Section: | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Categories: | Aviation | Automobiles | Non-fiction |
| Description: | Meccano Magazine was an English monthly hobby magazine published by Meccano Ltd between 1916 and 1963, and by other publishers between 1963 and 1981. The magazine was initially created for Meccano builders, but it soon became a general hobby magazine aimed ... |
| Military Comics |
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| Available: | 55 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 43 |
| From: | Aug 1941 |
| To: | Oct 1945 |
| Seq: | 1 - 43 |
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| Publisher: | Quality |
| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Aviation |
| Description: | MILITARY COMICS (Quality) 1941 Series.
No. 1, Aug 1941 - no. 43, Oct 1945
Continues as MODERN COMICS (Quality) 1945 Series.
Note: established by Will Eisner, an anthology featuring Reed Crandall's Blackhawk and Bill Ward's Torchy. |
| RAF Aces |
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| Section: | Pulp Magazines |
| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Aviation |
| Description: | R.A.F. Aces was a quarterly pulp magazine published by Better Publications Inc. based in New York, USA.
Basically one of a number of wartime propaganda magazines published in the USA to boost morale, it featured thrilling stories of Air Aces defeating the Nazi ... |
| Rocket Kelly |
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| Available: | 5 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 5 |
| From: | 1945 |
| To: | Oct 1946 |
| Seq: | 1 - 5 |
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| Publisher: | Fox Feature Syndicate |
| Categories: | Science Fiction | Aviation |
| Description: | ROCKET KELLY (Fox)
1944, one issue [nn]
also:
1945 Series.
No. 1, Fall 1945 - no. 5, Oct-Nov 1946. |
| Sky Blazers |
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation |
| Description: | Sky Blazers first aired on CBS on December 9, 1939. It was produced by Phillips H. Lord, who also created the more famous series Gangbusters.
The hero of Sky Blazers is Col. Roscoe Turner, who used his World War I discharge bonus to buy an airplane. Starting ... |
| Sky Girl Archives |
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| Section: | Comic Book Compilations |
| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation |
| Description: | Sky Girl's first appearance was in Jumbo Comics #68 (Oct 1944) published by Fiction House. She appeared in Jumbo Comics until issue #129 (Nov 1949).
Ginger Maguire, nicknamed Sky Girl, was the star of several World War II aviation adventures, though was apparently ... |
| Speed Gibson |
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| Available: | 178 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 178 |
| From: | Jan 1937 |
| To: | May 1940 |
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation |
| Description: | Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police was written by Virginia Cooke. It features Speed Gibson, a 15 year-old pilot who, through his uncle Clint Barlow, becomes a member of the International Secret Police.
The show ran weekly from January 2, 1937 ... |
| Tailspin Tommy |
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| Available: | 3 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| From: | May 1928 |
| To: | Mar 1942 |
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| Section: | Newspaper Comic Strips |
| Categories: | Aviation | Adventure |
| Description: | In the 1920s, aviation adventure had as much high-tech glamor as space travel did a half-century later. And after 1927, when Charles Lindbergh became the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean, non-stop - all of a sudden, the American public couldn't ... |
| Tailspin Tommy |
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| Categories: | Adventure | Children / Teenagers | Aviation |
| Description: | Tailspin Tommy an air adventure comic strip was originally illustrated by Hal Forrest and initially distributed by John Wheeler's Bell Syndicate and then by United Feature Syndicate, the strip had a 14-year run from 1928 to 1942.
Living in Littleville, ... |
